SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss the concepts of electricity & electronic theory
• Understand electromagnetism and electromotive force
• Understand current, voltage, and resistance in circuits
• Explain DC & AC circuit analysis
• Discuss capacitance and inductance
• Understand DC & AC measuring instruments and concepts
• Explain circuit analysis and troubleshooting circuits

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a thirty (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 eight (8) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Understand & calculate simple horizontal curves
• Explain obstacles to curve locations
• Calculate & discuss Compound and Reverse Curves
• Explain & calculate Transition Spirals
• Discuss & calculate Vertical Curves

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a ten (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 three (3) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain proportionment problems and methods
• Discuss Property rights and boundaries
• Understand and explain water boundaries
• Discuss non-conventional Cadastral survey

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a ten (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 two (2) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

In this course the student will learn the essentials of a Design-Build project delivery system. The traditional approach for construction projects consists of the appointment of a designer on one side, and the appointment of a contractor on the other side. The design–build procurement route changes the traditional sequence of work. It answers the client’s wishes for a single point of responsibility for both development of the design and project construction to effectively reduce risks and costs and speed-up final delivery.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain durability and critical areas of concern on residential structures
• Understand the negative effects of ground water, rain water, and water vapor
• Discuss HVAC and plumbing designs for durability/li>
• Discuss effects of solar radiation and mitigation techniques
• Explain decay, corrosion, and natural hazards effects and solutions for durability

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 (6) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss the US Electric Grid system and its history
• Understand the functions and concepts of electric power system operations
• Discuss FERC and the Energy Policy Act of 2005
• Discuss the electric reliability organization
• Explain reliability standards and standard’s development
• Explain reliability compliance, enforcement, and assessments

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 five (5) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss a brief history of energy storage
• Understand electrical energy time-shift and supply capacity
• Discuss transmission infrastructure of energy storage
• Understand customer energy management services

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 two (2) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss electricity storage services and benefits
• Understand various forms of current electric storage technologies
• Explain advantages/disadvantages of current electric storage technologies
• Discuss the methodology of evaluating electricity storage
• Discuss storage systems procurement and installation

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 (6) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize engineers with emergency and standby internal combustion diesel engine-generator set power systems under 600V. This course can serve as an introduction to emergency and standby power systems and applications for engineers with little or no professional electrical design experience. The course also presents practical emergency and standby power system application information that will benefit even the most seasoned electrical design professional.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss environmental factors that affect corrosion
• Understand the eight major forms of corrosion
• Discuss corrosion characteristics and properties of various common metals
• Explain corrosion protection and methods of control
• Discuss monitoring of corrosion and available inspection technologies
• Understand the electrochemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics of the corrosion process

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a thirty (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 nine (9) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss soil descriptions and standards
• Explain soil classification and properties
• Discuss practical aspects of fine-grained and course-grained soils
• Explain rock descriptions and classifications (SPT)
• Understand subsurface profile development

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 three (3) hours of professional development (PDH).

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss the human body, human heat transfer, and thermal comfort
• Understand design conditions for heating and cooling
• Understand heat gain, heat loss, and heat transfer of people and equipment
• Explain solar heat gain and transfer
• Discuss infiltration heat load and weatherizing
• Understand calculating heating and cooling requirements
• Understand annual energy consumption of a building

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty-five (25) question multiple-choice quiz. The quiz can be retaken unlimited times until a passing grade of 70% or better is earned. This course satisfies seven (7) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain empirical and physical solar forecasting methods
• Explain statistical and machine learning methods
• Discuss forecasting the production of a PV power plant
• Discuss statistical error measures
• Explain probabilistic solar forecasts

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 five (5) hours of professional development (PDH).

Fluid flow and practical fluid mechanics is essential to any engineer's knowledge base. This course will overview the basic principles of fluid flow including the three key attributes to solve all fluid problems. Bernoulli Equation will be discussed in detail to enable understanding of different types of energy in a fluid stream. Laminar and turbulent flow, head loss, and factors affecting head loss will also be dicussed in detail and explained with practical problems.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Review of key principles
• Shear Stress in a fluid
• Conservation of Mass
• Conservation of Momentum
• Reynolds number
• Laminar versus turbulent flow
• Bernoulli Equation
• Major head losses
• Minor head losses
• System level analysis

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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Understand the history of fiber optics
• Discuss basic fiber optics systems
• Understand the nature of light propagation and the electromagnetic theory of light
• Explain the properties of light reflection, refraction, diffusion, and absorption
• Explain the basic optical fiber material properties and how optical fibers transmit light
• Explain the ray and mode theories of light propagation along an optical fiber
• Discuss the processes of light attenuation and dispersion
• Understand the structure and components of fiber optic systems

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a 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 3 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

The course provides an understanding of the structure and properties of metals, stress mechanisms, failure modes and the characteristics determine their usefulness for a specific application. Often, materials are subject to variable forces (loads). The engineer calculates these forces to establish the service that can be expected and material scientists experiment to determine how materials deform (elongate, compress, and twist) or break as a function of applied load, time, temperature, and other conditions.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Mechanical properties of metals
• Structure of metals and how those structures are affected by various processes

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty (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 five (5) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

This online course provides an overview of centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, pump components, protection, and operational considerations. Pumps serve in a wide range of applications, from industrial uses such as pumping oil or natural gas, to consumer uses in vehicles or decorative fountains. Knowledge of the different designs of pumps can be used when selecting them for use in a system.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Centrifugal Pump Design and Classification
• Pump Operation and Protection
• Cavitation Prevention
• Positive Displacement Pump Design and Classification

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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Valves are a ubiquitous feature in many industrial facilities. As Valves make up the most common single piece of equipment found in industrial facilities familiarity with valves is useful practical knowledge. This course will provide an overview of the common components of valves, types of valves usage, design considerations, and actuation methods.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Valve Functions
• Basic Parts of Valves
• Different Types of Values (Usage and Design)
• General Design Considerations when using valves
• Types of Valve Actuators

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a twenty-five (25) 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 (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss preparing for subsurface explorations
• Explain field reconnaissance and setting-up a exploration program
• Discuss sampling techniques and tools
• Explain various tests in addition to the standard penetration test (SPT)
• Understand guidelines for minimum exploration

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 five (5) hours of professional development (PDH).