Environmental Engineering
This is part III of a three-part series. The third course covering the final chapters 6, 7, & 8 of Roundabouts: An Informational Guide from the Federal Highway Administration. In this course the student will learn the many different ways to design a roundabout and what steps are taken to ensure the most efficient and safe roundabout for a given location. Also covered are the signage requirements, landscaping potential, and multi-roundabout systems that can be used when designing a roundabout.Instructor: Raymond Bosek, PEThis is part III of a three-part series. The third course covering the final chapters 6, 7, & 8 of Roundabouts: An Informational Guide from the Federal Highway Administration. In this course the student will learn the many different ways to design a roundabout and what steps are taken to ensure the most efficient and safe roundabout for a given location. Also covered are the signage requirements, landscaping potential, and multi-roundabout systems that can be used when designing a roundabout.
SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Design principles
- Geometric elements
- Double-Lane, rural, and mini-roundabouts
- Traffic design
- Signage, markings, and illumination
- Other design considerations
- Crash prediction models
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a 30 question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies five (5) continuing education hour (CEH)/professional development hour (PDH) of continuing education.
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In this course the student will understand the concepts of construction site preparations. This course will offer an essential overview of site surveys, earthwork operations, common equipment and uses, as well as permitting. Instructor: Raymond Bosek, PESPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Explain types of site surveys and their components, including construction surveys, bench marks, datum, and mean sea level
- Explain types of earthwork operations, including pioneering, grubbing, stripping, and drainage
- Describe types of leveling instruments and their uses
- Interpret readings from a leveling rod
- Determine elevations in the field to locate points at specified elevations
- Determine boundaries of building layout
- Determine classes of soils through soils testing
- Determine soil stabilization strategies
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a 20 question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies four professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.
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This course will assist an engineer to understand the optimal and reliable configurations of solar water heating systems in different climates along with design specifications, planning principles, and guidelines for such systems that serve building clusters with significant domestic hot water needs. Instructor: Seth Grablow, PESPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Discuss solar energy and its constraints
- Understand solar hot water thermal system configurations
- Discuss applications in the government sector
- Explain solar hot water design and design considerations
- Discuss solar hot water system performance
- Understand solar hot water system maintenance
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a 20 question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies six professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.
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In this online course a student will understand the essentials of stream hydraulics and the various formulas and calculations available to solve problems associated with streams.Instructor: Raymond Bosek, PESPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understand channel cross-section parameters: flow depth, hydraulic depth, and hydraulic radius
- Discuss the dimensionless numbers
- Understand the continuity equation, Bernoulli equation and conservation of momentum equations
- Explain hydraulic calculations for uniform flow in a stream
- Explain the use of weirs for flow measurement
- Discuss channel routing procedures
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a fifteen (15) question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies three (3) continuing education hour (CEH)/professional development hour (PDH) of continuing education.
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Package plants are pre-manufactured wastewater treatment facilities typically used to treat flows between 0.01 and 0.25 MGD. This course provides information about three types of package plants, extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor and oxidation ditch systems. General configuration, typical applications for each, advantages and disadvantages, typical performance, and cost are covered.Instructor: Raymond Bosek, PEPackage plants are pre-manufactured wastewater treatment facilities typically used to treat flows between 0.01 and 0.25 MGD. This course provides information about three types of package plants, extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor and oxidation ditch systems. General configuration, typical applications for each, advantages and disadvantages, typical performance, and cost are covered.
SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- General configuration of extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor, and oxidation ditch package plants
- Typical applications for extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor, and oxidation ditch package plants
- Advantages and disadvantages of extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor, and oxidation ditch package plants
- Design criteria for extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor, and oxidation ditch package plants
- Typical performance and costs of extended aeration, sequencing batch reactor, and oxidation ditch package plants
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a 10 question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies 1 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.
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