Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Preview Course: Maryland Statutes, Regulations & Ethics

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Maryland’s statutes and regulations
  • The engineer’s duty to protect the public
  • The engineer’s duty to make objective and truthful statements
  • The engineer’s duty to limit practice to his or her field of competence
  • The engineer’s duty to maintain client confidentiality
  • The engineer’s responsibility to the profession

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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

Essentials of Heating and Cooling of Buildings: 7 PDH

Preview Course: Essentials of Heating and Cooling of Buildings
In this course the student will understand all elements effecting heating and cooling of structures and to properly calculate loads and loss for ideal thermal comfort.

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 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 7 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Solar Hot Water Systems Design: 6 PDH

Preview Course: Solar Hot Water Systems Design
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.

SPECIFIC 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 6 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Preview Course: Maryland Statutes, Regulations and Ethics

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Maryland’s statutes and regulations
  • The engineer’s duty to protect the public
  • The engineer’s duty to make objective and truthful statements
  • The engineer’s duty to limit practice to his or her field of competence
  • The engineer’s duty to maintain client confidentiality
  • The engineer’s responsibility to the profession

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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

Pavement Design for Roads, Streets, Walks, and Open Storage Areas: 6 PDH

Preview Course: Pavement Design
This course provides guidance for design of pavements and supporting materials for roads, streets, walks and open storage areas. The contents include procedures for conducting preliminary site reconnaissance, traffic analyses, and criteria for the design of subgrade, subbase, base courses, flexible and rigid pavements.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Preliminary Soil Investigations
  • Vehicular Traffic Considerations
  • Flexible Pavement Materials & Subgrades
  • Bituminous Pavement
  • Flexible Pavement Design
  • Rigid Pavement Design
  • Concrete Pavement Design
  • Reinforced Concrete Pavements
  • Pavement Overlays
  • Joints For Plain & Reinforced Concrete
  • Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements
  • Seasonal Frost Conditions

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 6 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Home Builders Guide to Earthquake Resistant Building Design: 5 PDH

Preview Course: Homebuilders Guide
In this course, the student will review Chapters 1-4 from “Homebuilders Guide to Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction”, FEMA 232 – June 2006 prepared by the Building Seismic Safety Council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Background & History
  • Above-Code Recommendations
  • International Residential Code & IRC Seismic Design Categories
  • Building Response & Concepts Concerning Site
  • Other Hazards including Coastal Hazards
  • Earthquake Resistant Requirements
  • IRC General Earthquake Limitations
  • Load Path
  • Lateral Capacities
  • House Configuration Irregularities
  • Foundation Requirements including Concrete Foundations & Masonry Foundations
  • Special Soil Conditions
  • Foundation Resistance to Sliding Loads
  • Special Considerations for Cut & Fill Sites
  • Foundation Design and Reinforcement
  • Interior Braced Walls Anchoring
  • Floor Design & Construction including Wood Frame, Cantilevered & Concrete Slab-On-Grade
  • Requirements for Blocking
  • Floor Sheathing

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 5 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Deterioration of Concrete: 2 PDH

Preview Course: Deterioration of Concrete
In this course, the student will review Chapter 3, Causes of Distress and Deterioration of Concrete from Engineer Manual (EM) 1110-2-2002, “Engineering and Design – Evaluation and Repair of Concrete Structures” published by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (issued 30 June 1995). This course is most relevant to engineers wishing to attain knowledge on the most common causes of problems in concrete. The course also provides a brief description of the basic mechanism of each common problem, a description of the typical symptoms that would be observed during a visual inspection, and suggests preventative methods or techniques to prevent further damage.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Common causes of concrete deterioration
  • Symptoms of concrete distress and deterioration that can be found during visual inspections
  • Preventative measures to reduce or eliminate further concrete degradation.

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 2 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Maryland’s statutes and regulations
  • The engineer’s duty to protect the public
  • The engineer’s duty to make objective and truthful statements
  • The engineer’s duty to limit practice to his or her field of competence
  • The engineer’s duty to maintain client confidentiality
  • The engineer’s responsibility to the profession

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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

2020 NEC Significant Code Changes Part 1: 4 PDH

Part 1 of a multiple part series, this four (4) hour course covers and highlights some of the significant changes and updates in the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) which was recently updated from the 2017 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC). The student will progress through each section of the NEC from the introduction up to and including article 300. The student will be identifying chapters, articles, and tables of where and what significant changes occurred (be it an addition, revision, or deleting), the student will review the 2020 version of the updated text, and understand the reason for the change with an explanatory brief.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Become familiar with some of the significant changes including additions, deletions, and modification to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) from the 2017 Edition for Chapters 1 up to and including chapter 3
  • Comprehend, after reviewing the significant changes and additions to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) the large scope of the changes to the code, thereby seeking additional and more thorough reviews of the entire code

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 4 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

2020 NEC Significant Code Changes Part 2: 4 PDH

Part 2 of a multiple part series, this four (4) hour course covers and highlights some of the significant changes and updates in the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) which was recently updated from the 2017 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC). The student will progress through all of article 400. The student will be identifying chapters, articles, and tables of where and what significant changes occurred (be it an addition, revision, or deleting), the student will review the 2020 version of the updated text, and understand the reason for the change with an explanatory brief.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Become familiar with some of the significant changes including additions, deletions, and modification to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) from the 2017 Edition for Chapter 4
  • Comprehend, after reviewing the significant changes and additions to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) the large scope of the changes to the code, thereby seeking additional and more thorough reviews of the entire code

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 4 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

2020 NEC Significant Code Changes Part 3: 4 PDH

Part 3 of a multiple part series, this four (4) hour course covers and highlights some of the significant changes and updates in the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) which was recently updated from the 2017 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC). The student will progress through all of article 500. The student will be identifying chapters, articles, and tables of where and what significant changes occurred (be it an addition, revision, or deleting), the student will review the 2020 version of the updated text, and understand the reason for the change with an explanatory brief.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Become familiar with some of the significant changes including additions, deletions, and modification to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) from the 2017 Edition for Chapter 5
  • Comprehend, after reviewing the significant changes and additions to the 2020 Edition of NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) the large scope of the changes to the code, thereby seeking additional and more thorough reviews of the entire code

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 4 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Photovoltaic Power Systems: 1 PDH

In this online course you will learn what a photovoltaic (PV) power system is and the following as it pertains to the PV system: Circuit requirements, Disconnecting means, Wiring methods, Grounding, Marking, and Connections to other sources.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Understand the various components and terminologies associated with photovoltaic systems
• Learn photovoltaic system’s circuit requirements and installation guidelines including wiring methods
• Discuss grounding methods as well as standard markings of photovoltaic system components
• Identify standard methods to connect to other power systems and loads

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 one (1) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Preview Course: Maryland Statutes, Regulations and Ethics

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Maryland’s statutes and regulations
  • The engineer’s duty to protect the public
  • The engineer’s duty to make objective and truthful statements
  • The engineer’s duty to limit practice to his or her field of competence
  • The engineer’s duty to maintain client confidentiality
  • The engineer’s responsibility to the profession

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

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

Thermodynamics: 8 PDH

Preview Course: Thermodynamics
This course provides a detailed overview of Thermodynamics Principles and Practices including thermodynamic principles in practical industrial, commercial and residential applications. The student will comprehend, analyze and solve various types of practical thermodynamic problems through several case studies. Laws, equations, graphs, charts, tables and diagrams, pertaining to various thermodynamics concepts, are covered and utilized in the analysis and solution of the case study problems.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Energy concepts and extension/application of the law of conservation of energy
  • Conversion of thermal energy to electricity through steam turbines and electric generators
  • Understanding and application of Steam Tables
  • Fundamental and essential concepts such as entropy, enthalpy, heat of fusion, heat of sublimation, latent and sensible heat
  • Thermodynamic processes
  • Heat engine cycles
  • Pyschrometric analysis based on psychrometric chart
  • Refrigeration cycle related numerical analysis utilizing Pressure –Enthalpy Charts

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 8 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Heat Transfer: 4 PDH

Preview Course: Heat Transfer
The transfer of heat is an integral part of many industrial processes. Moreover, heat transfer affects our everyday lives – from an oven heating our dinner to the wind cooling us on a hot summer day. Thus, it is important that the engineer understands how to apply the basic principles of heat transfer to solve real-world problems.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• • Heat transfer definitions and terminology, including heat flux, thermal conductivity, LMTD, and heat transfer coefficients
  • Conduction and the equivalent resistance formulas
  • Convection and use of the overall heat transfer coefficient
  • Radiant heat transfer, including black bodies, gray bodies and emissivity

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 4 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Pumped Storage Hydropower and Conduit Hydropower: 1 PDH

Preview Course: Pumped Storage
In this online course a student will learn about the different ways pumped storage hydropower and conduit hydropower can enhance renewable energy portfolio’s, the steps necessary to develop this new technology, and the common barriers encountered for deployment.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Understanding of pumped storage hydropower
• Understanding of potential hydropower from conduits
• Addresses the technical flexibility that existing pumped storage facilities can provide to support intermittent renewable energy generation
• Describing grid reliability benefits
• Understanding the differences between Pumped storage hydropower and conduit hydropower
• Safety aspects of constructing conduit hydropower projects on existing water-conveyance structures
• Current status and the future outlook for PSH in the United States

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 three (1) continuing education hour (CEH)/professional development hour (PDH) of continuing education.

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Process Design for Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels: 4 PDH

In this course you the student will understand the motivation, process, design, and cost of converting biomass into biofuel. The focus of this course is to find a plausible pathway to convert algal carbohydrates and lipids to fuel and to minimize cost during production.

Carbon Absorption of Volatile Organic Compounds: 3 PDH

Carbon adsorption is used in air pollution control to remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from low to medium concentration gas streams, when stringent outlet concentration must be met and/or recovery of the VOC is desired. This course covers the types of adsorbers, adsorption theory, and design procedures for carbon adsorption equipment.

Deterioration of Concrete: 2 PDH

This course is most relevant to engineers wishing to attain knowledge on the most common causes of problems in concrete. The course also provides a brief description of the basic mechanism of each common problem, a description of the typical symptoms that would be observed during a visual inspection, and suggests preventative methods or techniques to prevent further damage.

Hazardous Waste Identification: 2 PDH

This course covers hazardous waste regulated by the EPA under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), starting with determining whether what waste is considered a solid waste according to the RCRA regulations and moving on to determining if it fits one of the RCRA requirements for being a hazardous waste.

Wastewater Treatment Plants: 1 PDH

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.

Chemical Deicers & Concrete Pavement: Impacts & Mitigation: 1 PDH

In this course the student will understand the distresses caused to concrete by chemical deicers and methods used to minimize this distress.

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Building Envelope Impact on HVAC Energy Use: 3 PDH

How airtight are the buildings you are responsible for? What is the energy load and indoor air quality like in your buildings? The only way to know is to perform a study. Despite common assumptions, measurements have shown that typical U.S. commercial buildings are not particularly airtight. In this course we present a recent simulation study on the impact of improving envelope airtightness in U.S. commercial buildings. You get documented, verifiable facts, report charts and graphs illustrating the findings, and a discussion from the report on the results of the study, Investigation of the Impact of Commercial Building Envelope Airtightness on HVAC Energy Use.

Hurricane Mitigation: Summary Report On Building Performance: 3 PDH

After major hurricane disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dispatches Building Performance Assessment Teams (BPATs) to evaluate the successes and failures of buildings to withstand the wind and flood forces of these storms. The teams document the results of their evaluations in building performance assessment reports. This 3-hour online course summarizes the BPAT reports for Hurricane Katerina.

A Guide to Offshore Wind Energy: 2 PDH

Offshore wind turbines harness the energy of the ocean winds and turn it into electricity. This course introduces the basic principles of proposed US offshore wind facilities. The course summarizes a study conducted by EESI of existing European and Asian offshore wind farms. The topics addressed include technical issues related to marine foundations and structures, transmission issues unique to offshore power generation, political and regulatory issues and the public’s perceptions of proposed offshore wind farms. This course demonstrates that offshore wind energy has been successfully implemented in other parts of the world and that the potential for wind farms in U.S. waters is favorable.

Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings: 2 PDH

In this course the student will learn the general concept of the most efficient methods to enhance energy efficiency of historic buildings, while limiting the damage done during the rehabilitation process.

Ponds- Planning, Design, Construction: 2 PDH

This course provides guidance on some of the required criteria the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has in place for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of ponds. This course describes basic design principles of embankment and excavation ponds as well as construction requirements. This online PDH course is intended for hydrologists, civil engineers, agricultural engineers, construction engineers, municipal engineers, geotechnical engineers and environmental engineers.

Wastewater Treatment Plants: 1 PDH

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.

Maryland – Statutes, Regulations, and Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

Design and Construction of Road Tunnels-Part 1 Planning: 5 PDH

In this course the student will come to understand a general overview of the planning process of a road tunnel project, geometrical requirements and recommendations of new road tunnels, investigative techniques and parameters required for planning, construction and design of road tunnels, and the different types of reports required for a road tunnel project.

Home Builders Guide to Earthquake Resistant Building Design: 5 PDH

In this course, the student will review Chapters 1-4 from “Homebuilders Guide to Earthquake Resistant Design and Construction”, FEMA 232 – June 2006 prepared by the Building Seismic Safety Council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the Department of Homeland Security. The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions at the end of this course to earn PDH credits.

Hurricane Mitigation: Summary Report On Building Performance: 3 PDH

After major hurricane disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dispatches Building Performance Assessment Teams (BPATs) to evaluate the successes and failures of buildings to withstand the wind and flood forces of these storms. The teams document the results of their evaluations in building performance assessment reports. This 3-hour online course summarizes the BPAT reports for Hurricane Katerina.