Interactive & Video Discount Package - British Columbia Civil 19 PDH

This online engineering PDH ethics course is (1) the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations involved in engineering and (2) the study of related questions about moral conduct, character, ideals and relationships of peoples and organizations involved in technological development (Martin and Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering).

 

This course will address the principles of engineering ethics that every engineer is expected to live by when practicing their profession. It will also present unique ethical case studies randomly selected to demonstrate ethical challenges for professional engineers and alternatives to address these challenges.

 

This 1 PDH online course is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the Province of British Columbia and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in engineering ethics as a condition of their license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete at least one (1) professional development hour relative to the principals of professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides guidance on pavement preservation concepts, pavement evaluation, and strategy selection procedures.

The need for the effective management of transportation assets has never been greater. In an era of an aging infrastructure, ever-increasing traffic demands, and shrinking budgets, transportation agencies are continually being asked to “do more with less” in maintaining the condition of their facilities.

Pavements represent a large part of that transportation infrastructure, and the need for their effective management is just as acute. Pavements that are left to deteriorate without timely preservation or maintenance treatments are likely to require major rehabilitation and reconstruction much sooner, and those are costly and disruptive activities.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for structural and transportation engineers, design and construction personnel, and other technical professionals who are involved in concrete pavement preservation.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides guidance on two pavement preservation treatments: slab stabilization and slab jacking, and retrofitted edgedrains.

The need for the effective management of transportation assets has never been greater. In an era of an aging infrastructure, ever-increasing traffic demands, and shrinking budgets, transportation agencies are continually being asked to “do more with less” in maintaining the condition of their facilities.

Pavements represent a large part of that transportation infrastructure, and the need for their effective management is just as acute. Pavements that are left to deteriorate without timely preservation or maintenance treatments are likely to require major rehabilitation and reconstruction much sooner, and those are costly and disruptive activities

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for structural and transportation engineers, design and construction personnel, and other technical professionals who are involved in concrete pavement preservation.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview on the occurrence and movement of groundwater.  Procedures for planning and managing a site characterization and modeling study are then presented. 

In the past 10 years, significant technical progress has been made in the field of computer modeling of groundwater flow. These new modeling technologies have had widespread applications within the field. Similar to many field applications, it is not possible to provide specific instructions and/or specific procedures that are universally applicable to every situation that may be encountered. Therefore, this course emphasizes the use of sound judgement and the development of a good understanding of basic groundwater concepts rather than providing specific guidelines.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to civil and environmental engineers, as well as design and construction personnel involved with the study and analysis of groundwater flow.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the technical aspects of field investigative methods and computer modeling that are often employed to quantify the water exchange between the surface and subsurface.

This presentation also discusses the current technology available for carrying out simulations of the interaction between surface water and groundwater that are required for the numerical modeling of groundwater flow.

In the past 10 years, significant technical progress has been made in the field of computer modeling of groundwater flow. These new modeling technologies have had widespread applications within the field. Similar to many field applications, it is not possible to provide specific instructions and/or specific procedures that are universally applicable to every situation that may be encountered. Therefore, this course emphasizes the use of sound judgement and the development of a good understanding of basic groundwater concepts rather than providing specific guidelines.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to civil and environmental engineers, as well as design and construction personnel involved with the study and analysis of groundwater flow.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation presents a combination of structural best management practices appropriate to address storm water runoff from new development and redevelopment projects disturbing land characteristics.

EPA recommends that you ensure the appropriate implementation of the structural Best Management Practices, in order to provide new development and potentially redevelopment with more opportunities for water quality protection, by considering some or all of the following: preconstruction review of BMP designs; inspections during construction to verify BMPs are built as designed; post-construction inspection and maintenance of BMPs; and penalty provisions for the noncompliance with design, construction or operation and maintenance.

Structural BMPs include: storage practices such as wet ponds and extended-detention outlet structures; filtration practices such as grassed swales, sand filters and filter strips; and infiltration practices such as infiltration basins and infiltration trenches.

This 3 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily to all personnel responsible for the implementation of best management practices for post construction storm water management including but not limited to, municipality owners and/or operators, construction contractors and their staff, site developers and investors, and engineers.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation focuses on offering guidelines for the use of phosphoric acid to stiffen asphalt binders for hot mix paving applications.

This course presents data on the likely effect on pavement life, moisture resistance, and use with limestone aggregates and liquid amine antistrip additives. Analytical methods for the detection of phosphoric acid in asphalt binders are also presented. Asphalt producers, hot-mix paving contractors, and State departments of transportation are the main audiences.

The Use of Phosphoric Acid to Stiffen Hot Mix Asphalt Binders provides guidelines for the use of the different commercially available grades of phosphoric acid to enhance the high temperature performance grade of asphalt binders derived from different crude oil sources for use in hot mix paving applications. The expected effect on pavement life, in terms of oxidative aging, moisture resistance, fatigue, rutting, and use with different types of aggregates are presented. Analytical procedures for detecting the presence of phosphoric acid using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy as well as a simple rapid test method are included.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is designed for civil engineers, transportation engineers, producers of asphalt binders, hot mix paving contractors, State departments of transportation, local highway agencies, and professional engineers responsible for the use of phosphoric acid to stiffen asphalt binders.

This online engineering PDH video presentation focuses on the basic nature of flow in open channels and common ways of classifying open channel flow (laminar or turbulent, steady state or unsteady state, uniform or non-uniform, and critical, subcritical or supercritical).  It presents several worked examples to gain practice in the use of the Manning equation for a variety of uniform open channel flow calculations.

 

Flow of water may take place either as open channel flow or pressure flow.  Pressure flow takes place in a closed conduit such as a pipe, and pressure is the primary driving force for the flow.  For open channel flow, on the other hand, the flowing liquid has a free surface that is at atmospheric pressure and the driving force is gravity.  Open channel flow takes place in natural channels like rivers and streams.  It also occurs in manmade channels such as those used to transport wastewater or irrigation water and in circular sewers flowing partially full.

 

This 3 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for civil, hydraulic, highway, environmental, chemical, mechanical, and industrial engineers, who are interested in learning more about open channel hydraulics.

This online engineering PDH video presentation presents the parameter “specific energy” which will first be used to introduce the concepts of critical, subcritical and supercritical flow.  It also presents various calculations related to critical, subcritical and supercritical flow, including hydraulic jump calculations. It discusses the thirteen possible types of gradually varied non-uniform flow surface profiles.  It illustrates the procedure and equations for step-wise calculation of gradually varied non-uniform surface profiles through the use of examples.

 

Many examples of open channel flow can be approximated as uniform flow allowing the use of the Manning equation for calculations.  Non-uniform flow calculations are needed, however, in some open channel flow situations, in which the flow is clearly non-uniform.  The concepts of supercritical, subcritical and critical flow, along with calculations related to those three flow regimes are needed for non-uniform open channel flow analysis and calculations.

 

This 3 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for civil, hydraulic, highway, environmental, chemical, mechanical, and industrial engineers, who are interested in learning more about open channel hydraulics.