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420-Electrical Power Distribution Part 1 - Fundamentals

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2 $45.00

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is intended to provide training and education about the following topics: 1. Basic components in an AC electrical power distribution system 2. Measured values related to electrical power distribution (voltage, current, power, power factor and energy) 3. Electrical energy charges and billing 4. Electrical safety

Course Description:

This course is intended for electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, plant engineers and others who are interested in gaining an understanding of electrical power systems. This course provides a description of the major components in electrical power systems and the measured values associated with the system and components. It also provides an overview of energy billing to understand factors that impact the life-cycle costs of operations. In addition, there is an explanation of basic electrical safety and protective devices.

419-Fundamentals of Masonry Part B

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4 $90.00

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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 science of masonry construction is extensive, thorough, and is the foundation of the profession. But there is an artistic component bounded only by the imagination of the designer and the skilled mason.

Masonry construction has been practiced for thousands of years beginning with the ancient Greeks and the Romans. The “language” of the craft developed over this time. Today we use words that clearly identify pieces and parts of the industry that can bewilder or confound those unfamiliar with them – words such as collar joint, sash block, and Jack arch.

This three course series provides fundamental knowledge about masonry construction for the engineer, architect, contractor, and anyone else who is interested in having a basic understanding of the topic.

Fundamentals of Masonry – Part A explained and simplified the terminology and the fundamental principles of masonry and masonry construction including the nomenclature and history of the subject, and an introduction to the basic principles of wall construction.

Fundamentals of Masonry – Part B continues the discussion of masonry including design and reinforced masonry, some structural elements such as bond beams, lintels, pilasters, and arches and concludes with a section titled “What can go wrong?” with an example of the severe consequences of ignoring the design and construction principles of masonry.

It is fully illustrated with drawings and color photographs and is written in an easy to understand style.

Coming soon Fundamentals of Masonry – Part C will discuss additional masonry units including stone and glass, the anatomy of a clay brick street, efflorescence, and additional fascinating (actually, disheartening) damages resulting from sloppy and incorrect masonry construction practices.

418-Engineering Ethics

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This course is accepted for Ethics training by all state engineering boards and the District of Columbia.

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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.

Course Description:

The intent of this course is not to make you ethical, but rather, remind you of your ethical obligations. This course is intended for professionals that need to meet their Continuing Education requirements for Ethics. The course reviews ethical conduct as it relates to the requirement for professionals to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. It will look at some of the areas in which ethics impacts our professional careers and provides a few ethical instances for illustration.

This course satisfies one hour of the ethics training requirement for license renewal for the following state engineering boards:
Delaware	3-6 hours required
District of Columbia	1-hour required
Florida	1-hour required
Indiana	1-hour required
Iowa	2-hours required
Louisiana	2-hours required
Maryland	1-hour required
Minnesota	2-hour required
Mississippi	1-hour required
New Jersey	2-hours required
New Mexico	2-hours required
New York	1-hour required
Ohio	2-hours required (rules or ethics)
Texas	1-hour required
Wisconsin	2-hours required

417-Airport Engineering - Part II Runway & Taxiway 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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The second of three courses, this training addresses specific engineering elements of runway and taxiway design. This lesson will inform you of the details involved in these critical airport features and familiarize you with federal standards. Upon completion, you will know precise dimensions, grades, and design criteria that will aid in project execution and reinforce your understanding of runways and taxiways. **Bonus material: discover an interesting concept about circular runway design that you never knew existed**

416-Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses III – High Performance Slabs

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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 III – High Performance Slabs, is the fourth in a series of courses on concrete slabs-on-grade.

The previous three courses presented knowledge necessary for designing and specifying concrete slabs-on-grade, background information on warehouse facilities and the sites they are built on, unique challenges, types of loading, slab design methods, and recommendations for joints details, joint filler, and surface finishes.

The present course, Concrete Slabs-on-Grade: Warehouses III – High Performance Slabs, expands on the knowledge in the above courses by exploring more specialized design methods, loading and temperature extremes, and superflat floors. Time-tested slab design innovations used to mitigate issues with slabs will be presented. Situations where warehouse floors will be subjected to high demand loading and extreme low temperature conditions will be studied. Building slabs that require extreme flatness and are examined. A list of topics includes:

Topic #1 – Shrinkage Compensating Concrete Slabs

Topic #2 – Slabs with fibers:

a) Synthetic fibers (a.k.a., macrofiber), or

b) Steel fibers

Topic #3 – Slabs designed with continuous reinforcing

Topic #4 – Post-tensioned slabs-on-grade

Topic #5 – Cold Storage Warehouses

Topic #6 – Automated Racking Systems

Topic #7 – Superflat Floors

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.

414-National Electric Code

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Course Objectives: This course is meant to provide an overview of the entire NEC with an emphasis on methodologies that are useful for finding the applicable requirements while knowing when coverage is adequate enough to stop researching and commence designing, installing, or upgrading. Although many can benefit, three specific groups are targeted with the following goals.

Provide a practicing Professional Engineer (PE) with a refresher of the purpose, scope, and application of the NEC.
Provide a practicing Engineer with the requisite knowledge to adequately review and analyze designs for compliance with code requirements.
Provide a licensed Electrician with a review of the latest updates and impacts to installation procedures.

Course Description:

This course covers the entirety of the National Electrical Code with an emphasis on Chapters 1 through 4. The course illuminates the most often used portions of the Code for an engineer who may not work with the Code daily but is tasked with ensuring requirements are met during a factory installation or remodel.

General requirements are covered along with explanations for the values and restrictions. Wiring methods are elucidated and methodologies provided; that is, where to start in one’s search of the code for the apropo requirements. Equipment explained include motors and their many requirement with an emphasis on where to start the search to ensure one is referring to the correct set of requirements for a given job/installation.

The material provided should enable the interested engineer an understanding of the more important, and the most often used, portions of the Code in addition to the confidence to engage in discussions with inspectors on application of the Code.

426-Florida Engineering Laws & Rules Online for 2023

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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 and to familiarize the professional engineer with the laws and rules that govern the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course meets the Florida Board of Engineers requirement for one-hour of laws and rules training. The course is also accepted for general credit in all states except New York, Ohio, Minnesota, and New Mexico.

413-Advanced Florida Building Code - Seventh Edition (2020) Florida Building Code-Accessibility

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2 $38.00

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Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course participants will be able to: Identify important ADA documents including the Federal ADA Standards and the Florida Building Code 7th Edition (2020) Accessibility as well as discuss the DOJ code certification process and FL statute Chapter 553 adoption and exception language Describe Chapter 1 changes to section 106 definitions and explain Chapter 2 code changes regarding applications, existing buildings and facilities, and accessible routes Summarize Chapter 2 code changes to parking spaces, assembly areas, transient lodging and guest rooms and residential facilities Express code changes of accessible routes in Chapter 4, general site and building elements in Chapter 5, plumbing elements and facilities in Chapter 6 and special rooms, spaces and elements in Chapter 8

Course Description:

Credit Hours: 2.00

Approval Number: 1036.0

This course satisfies the requirements of Florida Statute 471.0195 and board rule 61G15-22.001 F.A.C.
Florida Building Commission Advanced Course Accreditation Number 1036.0

This two-hour online distance learning course is designed to give the design and construction professional insight into the Florida Building Code-Building Code 7th Edition-Building (2020). It covers the fundamental changes, additions and modifications to the code. This course offers no opinions concerning any motivations behind these code changes. We leave it up to others to debate the potential impacts, merits or drawbacks, if any, of these new code provisions. Instead, changes are explained as objectively as possible within the scope of this course to clarify the extent and detail of the code modifications, the new provisions, or the deletions as these are now incorporated in the 6th Edition of the FBCB.

412-Airport Engineering - Part I Fundamentals

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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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As essential components of modern travel, airports are networks for private, commercial, and public travelers. These courses offer an overview of airport engineering and design for those who wish to become more familiar with airport projects. The first of three, this course addresses particular topics such as common airport features, the FAA, design considerations, and aircraft classifications. With lots of eye-catching photos, this introductory course will certainly keep you interested and inform you of the factors involved in airport design.

411-External Ballistics Primer for Engineers - Part II: Test Equipment

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This course was written to introduce engineers of any discipline to the basics of external ballistics. The engineer will gain a general understanding of many of the factors, effects and forces which affect the flight path of a projectile in unpowered flight.

Course Description:

In part one of this external ballistics course several factors were introduced which affect the flight of a ballistic projectile. Some basic equations were presented that are useful to a great many engineers outside of ballistics for making approximations with a fair bit of accuracy. Several flow regimes that a ballistic projectile may pass through were also treated, though there were cases that were omitted for either lack of space or complexity. Fast forward to part deux. Projectiles launched from earth generally move through air for most or all of their flight, which means understanding the properties of that air is very important. Besides air there are other flightpath modifiers including Coriolis’ effects, so many times it is important to know the direction the projectile is headed in and its speed. The list of measurement equipment used in relation to external ballistics research is extensive, however there are tools which may be more noteworthy or common than others. The balance of this part of the full course delivers descriptions and general information of some of the equipment used to measure atmospheric air pressure, humidity, windspeed, wind direction, projectile speed and direction. There are also a few characteristic comparisons in table form appended to a handful of the sections.

The tools that follow are used throughout much of engineering and research rather than being confined to external ballistics, so it is likely you have used at least some of them in relation to your own work.

409-Understanding Sensors Part 1 - Sensor Technology

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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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Sensors provide status information on our environment, homes, cars, and equipment we use. They are a part of nearly all walks of life and essential elements of control and safety systems. Part 1 of the course discusses sensor technology while Part 2 describes sensor networks and fusion of sensor network data. The sensor is a device that detects and/or measures the state of a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, force, flow, or level. Measurements are converted to an observation media such as an electrical signal or mechanical, hydraulic, or pneumatic motion providing knowledge of the physical quantity’s state. They may also interface directly to an actuator. The sensor measurement function is performed by several components that constitute a sensing system. This system, termed a sensor node when integrated into a network, is comprised of a sensing element, signal conditioning and possibly processing components, power supply and some form of output; a simple display, meter, or now with the internet many sensors and associated processing interconnect through a wireless communication network. Sensor technology, networking, and fusion is of growing importance in most engineering and scientific applications and this two-part course discusses these topics.

410-Understanding Sensors Part 2 - Sensor Networks

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4 $90.00

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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.

Course Description:

Part 2 begins with a description of two additional sensors that will continue to play an important role in the evolving sensor networking technology; micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and fiber optic sensors. Then sensor networking architecture and the transmission of measured data to a sensor fusion algorithm is examined. Finally, sensor fusion technology is described. Finally, sensor fusion technology is described. Sensor fusion enhances the knowledge base of the quantities of interest as well as the interaction between them. This part of the course will cover all aspects of the networked sensing system; the sensor node, the communication network, network topologies and wireless sensor networks (WSN), communication network layered protocols, and finally fusion algorithms and processing techniques. Spurred by innovations in the smart phone, the Internet, MEMS, the IoT and the Cloud, devices are becoming smart and capable of user control, monitoring, and communication from remote locations. Network connectivity, person to person, machine to machine, device to device and combinations thereof is expanding at a fast rate making an understanding of sensor networks and fusion of growing importance.

408-The Hardy Cross Method and its Successors in Water Distribution Modeling

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
1.    Hydraulic concepts necessary for understanding various pipe network analysis methods
2.    The history behind the development of the Hardy Cross method
3.    The basic principles the Hardy Cross method is based on and the step-by-step procedures used for pipe network analysis
4.    The differences between the Hardy Cross and Modified/Improved Hardy Cross methods
5.    Some of the advantages and disadvantages of using the Hardy Cross method
6.    The differences between loop methods, node methods, flow methods, and gradient/node-loop methods for analyzing pipe networks
7.    The basic concept of the Newton-Raphson method
8.    The basic concept and application of the Linear Theory method
9.    The basic concept and application of the Gradient method
10.    A timeline of water distribution modeling advances from 1960 to 2020
11.    The head loss methods and hydraulic balancing methods used by common hydraulic modeling software programs
12.    Introduces leading modeling software developers, programs, and their basic capabilities

Course Description:

Water distribution system models have become very important and practical tools for civil engineers. Models are often used to optimize the design of new distribution systems or analyze major extensions or modifications to existing distribution systems. Computer models help engineers answer many common questions. For example, what is the maximum fire flow at a given point in the system? How long can that fire flow be provided for? What size pipe installation would be necessary between two points in a system to increase the pressure at one of the points to the minimum pressure required? If a subdivision or commercial development is built, will adequate pressures and flows exist? If not, what length and size of water mains must be upgraded by the developer to allow for the proposed construction?

In the 1930s the Hardy Cross method provided a breakthrough in pipe network analysis. Later, the advent of the modern computer allowed for analysis of even larger distribution systems using the method. Despite the development of more efficient computer algorithms, the Hardy Cross method remains the pipe network analysis method taught to most undergraduate civil engineering majors.

This course covers the history, basic principles, assumptions, step-by-step procedures, advantages, and disadvantages for solving pipe network problems using the Hardy Cross method. The three predominate analysis methods used by water distribution modeling software over the past 40 years are introduced and explained (the Newton-Raphson, Linear Theory, and Gradient methods). At the end of the course material a summary of some popular public-domain and commercial hydraulic models is presented. A total of ten example problems and solutions are included throughout the course to reinforce learning. The primary audiences for this course are consulting and municipal engineers in the water resource and environmental fields.

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