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397-Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses II – Slab Design

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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This course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses II – Slab Design, is the third in a series of courses on concrete slabs-on-grade.

The first course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: From the Ground Up presented knowledge necessary for designing and specifying concrete slabs-on-grade.

The second course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses I – Background & Loading presents background information on warehouse facilities and the sites they are built on. Also, unique challenges are identified, as well as types of loading.

The present course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses II – Slab Design, teaches the reader how to provide warehouse owners and operators with slabs that are designed to handle the abuse that small hard wheels impose on slab joints. The course will also review how to design slabs for the loads that legs and base plates of heavy storage racks can apply on small areas of the slab, especially near discontinuities. Furthermore, information on joint construction, joint filler, and surface finishes are presented. The service life of a slab will depend on the durability of the concrete surface and joints. For facilities with a poorly executed slab design, it is extremely costly to repair and maintain the slab joints. This includes the loss of efficiency while slabs are in a state of disrepair and during operational downtime when remedial action is taking place. This course identifies the specific concerns of warehouse slabs, and suggests approaches to the design and construction of these slabs to achieve optimal long term performance and minimization of maintenance costs.

This course focuses on qualitative approaches to slab design and construction, as well as quantitative design measures useful in calculations. Design concepts are tailored to engineers with a background in statics and mechanics of materials, with some familiarity in concrete construction and design.

396-Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses I – Background & Loading

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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This course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses I – Background & Loading is the second in a series of courses on concrete slabs-on-grade.

The first course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: From the Ground Up presented knowledge necessary for designing and specifying concrete slabs-on-grade.

The third course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses II – Slab Design presents information on slab design methods, as well as recommendations for joints details, joint filler, and surface finishes.

The present course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses I – Background & Loading, contains information on slabs-on-grade in warehouse facilities that are subject to forklift and pallet jack traffic, as well as storage rack loading. The reader will learn background knowledge about warehouses with the goal of improved discussions with those who own and operate these facilities. For facilities with a poorly executed site soil and/or slab design, it is extremely costly to repair and maintain the slab joints. This includes the loss of efficiency while slabs are in a state of disrepair and during operational downtime when remedial action is taking place. This course identifies specific challenges of warehouse slabs, how they are different than typical buildings, and suggests approaches to the design and construction of these slabs to achieve optimal long term performance and minimization of maintenance costs.

This course focuses mainly on qualitative approaches to slab design and construction, but some quantitative design measures are presented and referred to. Design concepts are tailored to engineers with a background in statics and mechanics of materials, with some familiarity in concrete construction and design.

395-Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD): Introduction and Overview of Signs

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) (1) provides national standards and guidance with respect to location, shape, size, and color for roadway signs, markings, and signals. Such guidance and standards are intended to enhance transportation safety and efficiency and provide uniformity of such devices to drivers across of the United States.

Figure 1. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 2009 Edition Cover

In this course, you will learn about:

General guidelines for traffic control devices
How to utilize the MUTCD effectively
Sign functions and purposes
Sign types and designs
General sign guidance on shapes, color, dimensions, location and more

Source of artwork is the MUTCD 2009 Edition and photos are by Scott or Leslie Washburn, unless noted otherwise.

394-Motor Control Part 3 - AC Variable Speed Drives

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is intended to provide training and education about the following topics:
1. Benefits of using AC adjustable speed drives
2. How an adjustable speed drive controls motor speed
3. The components included in an adjustable speed drive
4. How the motor load type affects drive selection, overload capabilities and energy savings
5. Options for sources of control
6. System installation considerations

Course Description:

This course is intended for electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, plant engineers and others who are interested in the use and application of AC variable frequency drives (VFD). This course provides a description of the benefits of using VFDs, how to select a VFD, the characteristics of three types of loads, how VFDs change the speed of a motor and installation considerations.

393-Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: From the Ground Up

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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This course guides the reader through basic knowledge necessary for designing and specifying concrete slabs-on-grade. The intended audience is design professionals who have at least a basic working knowledge of concrete and that understand simple engineering terms such as tension, compression, and bending.

The reader will find information ranging from the ground slabs are built upon, to slab properties and behavior, to the means of finishing a slab, and finally how slabs are cured for final use. Oftentimes, engineers know what the 28-day compressive strength of a concrete slab should be, but may not choose to dig deeper than that. It is true that slabs are mainly a convenient barrier between the dirt and the first floor of a building. However, as the reader will learn in this course, problems in slabs are often a result of poor soil conditions beneath the slab, or cracking of the concrete due to concrete shrinkage. So, while knowledge of strength is important, it is just the beginning. This course strives to further the knowledge of the reader, and help them make good decisions on behalf of the building owners they serve, and ultimately to design slabs-on-grade with minimal problems in service.

392-Protecting Drinking Water from Pathogens

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Course Objectives: Convey the key elements for protecting public water systems from pathogens.

Course Description:

Drinking water is susceptible to transmitting waterborne diseases from microorganisms known as pathogens. Modern methods of treating and disinfecting water have greatly decreased the risk of getting sick from drinking water, but outbreaks still occur and the threat remains. This course aims to empower engineers to help in the ongoing fight to eliminate pathogens from drinking water.

The following topics are covered:

Biological contaminants that threaten our drinking water
Water sources and their likelihood for harboring pathogens
Disinfection and log treatment
Approaches to prevent biological growth in a distribution system

391-What Every Engineer Should Know About Regression Analyses

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Modern computing technologies and Big data have significantly changed the discourse on data mining and data efficacy. In any system where quantities change, it is of interest to look at the effects if any, of the system variables. Indeed, there may be a relationship (in our case statistical relationship) which may be approximated by a simple mathematical relationship. At other times, the mathematical or functional relationship may be complicated. Still there may be situations where there does not seem to be meaningful relationships between the variables and yet we might want to express or relate those variables by some sort of mathematical equations.

Regression Analysis is one of the most important statistical techniques used for data mining applications. It is a statistical methodology that helps estimate the strength and direction of the relationship between two or more variables, more specifically regressor and response variables and provides detailed insight that can be applied to further improve system outcomes. The importance of regression analysis lies in its singular focus on data which means numbers and figures that ultimately define a business entity. In Regression Analyses, two types of variables are of major concern, namely the regressor or predictive variables also known as independent variables, and the response variable.

The independent or predictor variable is one that is not random but is controlled (sometimes observed such as the amount of rainfall on a plot of land when the interest is on the effect of rainfall on crop yield) during an experiment. The dependent or response variable cannot be controlled but is rather measured as an outcome of the manipulation (or observation in the case of rainfall) of the independent variable and thus is a random variable. In this course, we will focus primarily on the following elements of Regression Analyses, namely:

Parameters & Estimates
Probability Distribution of the Parameters
Covariance between two variables
Simple hypothesis tests involving parameters including one- and two-sided t and F tests
Confidence Interval for the parameters
Orthogonal Columns, Diagonal and Symmetric Matrices
Estimation of model R2, Adjusted R2, (?? or r) to assess data efficacy
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Multicollinearity and Variance Inflation Factors

390-Ethics in Design and Oversight: The Case of the Florida International University Bridge Collapse

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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This course is a description of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse on March 15, 2018. The bridge collapsed while under construction over a busy motorway resulting in the deaths of six people and serious injuries to another six. Analysis by the National Transportation Safety Board found errors in the design of the bridge, the review of the design, and the response to signs that the bridge was failing. The case serves as a reminder for designers that reviews can be imperfect and a reminder for reviewers that designs can be imperfect. It also highlights the possible dangers of professional distance between the design and construction processes. The course is designed to give course takers evidence from which they can determine how widely distributed accountability for the collapse should be.

389-Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Fresh water can be produced from various saline water sources (ground water, brackish surface water or seawater) using a number of alternative desalination technologies such as thermal evaporation, reverse osmosis membrane separation and electrodialysis.

This course introduces the reader to the desalination technologies used most widely at present worldwide and defines key advantages, disadvantages, and areas of application of each of these technologies. The provided information encompasses both thermal evaporation technologies such as multistage flash distillation (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED) and vacuum compression (VC) as well as reverse osmosis desalination using spiral wound membranes (RO) and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) systems. The course contains graphs and tables comparing the capital and operation and maintenance expenditures and water production costs of these alternative desalination technologies and highlights the differences in their energy use and fresh product water quality.

388-Introduction to Desalination Project Design and Delivery

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Implementing a successful desalination project encompasses a number of steps including planning, conceptual and detailed designs, construction, commissioning and acceptance testing. This course presents and introduction to the design and delivery of desalination projects and provides insights into project funding alternatives.

The course encompasses discussion of the key factors considered in the selection of desalination plant treatment processes (pretreatment, membrane salt separation, post-treatment) and equipment. The course introduces the principles used for pilot testing to verify and optimize desalination plant treatment process, and to select plant configuration and layout. Overview of the energy and chemical use of desalination plants are presented and the dosages of most common chemicals are provided in the course. The course also focuses on the fundamentals of project scheduling, implementation and phasing and addresses project economics and most common methods of project delivery such as design-bid-build, design-build-operate and build-own-operate transfer.

387-Clarifier Rehabilitation

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Most water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants have at least one clarifier. Many of the clarifiers were installed more than 30 years ago and are at risk of failure if aged equipment is not rehabilitated.

This course guides the engineer through the rehabilitation process and provides helpful advice to help ensure that a rehabilitated clarifier will last well into the future.

The following topics are covered:

Condition assessment, including the drive, equipment, and tank
Performance assessment, including desktop studies and field testing
Alternatives comparison, with examples
Design recommendations, including for the coating system
Construction tips

386-Introduction to Planning of Desalination Projects

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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Planning of desalination projects is of critical importance for successful project implementation and for producing desalinated water at competitive cost and minimal impact to the surrounding terrestrial and aquatic environment. The purpose of project planning is to define the size, location and scope of the desalination project and chart a roadmap for project implementation.

This education course provides an overview of key steps associated with the planning of desalination project, from selecting service area and target product water quality for the project, to determining viable plant location, intake and discharge configuration, and identifying the most cost effective treatment processes. The course focuses on the practical guidance and real-life experience in the development of desalination projects in the US and abroad.

385-Sustainability Comparisons for All Engineers

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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It is increasingly common for engineers in all fields to consider sustainability when designing a product, process, or facility. This course will cover recent trends in sustainability including the “triple bottom line”, life cycle assessment, lifecycle cost, renewable energy, the precautionary principle, and greenhouse gas emissions.

In can be challenging to quantify sustainability and to reduce subjectivity. This course will directly address these challenges and present a ten step framework for calculating and comparing the sustainability of alternatives. Two example comparisons are provided to guide you through the process of quantifying sustainability, comparing the alternatives, and picking a winner.

384-Practical Guide to Writing Engineering Reports

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

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The course covers basic elements of an effective technical report. A first consideration is the purpose of the report and the audience needs. Readability factors include language choices and organization strategies, such as highlighting/orienting devices: paragraphing, headings, bulleted lists, bold, italics, underline, etc. Proper documentation of sources allows for incorporating the work of others smoothly and accurately. Effective choice of graphics can visually support your text. Simplified outlines of common types of reports in the course include procedures, proposals, and progress reports. Additionally, there are tips on grammar, punctuation, and spelling common to engineering and technical topics, as well as commonly confused words.

381-Motor Control Part 2 - Reduced Voltage Starters

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is intended to provide training and education about the following topics.
1. Understanding the starting characteristics of AC induction motors
2. Problems that can be caused by full-voltage starters
3. Understanding the functions and benefits of 5 methods for reduced voltage starters

Course Description:

This course is intended for electrical, mechanical, plant engineers and others who are interested in the use and application of reduced voltage starters. This course provides guidance in the selection between the options for reduced voltage starters based on operating starting and operating characteristics.

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