Alabama-Mechanical Engineering Package #2: 30 PDH

In this course the student will study the Alabama State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Laws and Rules, including Professional Engineering Ethics. A twenty-five question quiz will test his or her understanding of the subject.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

1. 1. • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Alabama's laws and rules
      • 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.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain accidents and accident models
• Discuss cause and effect relationships
• Understand human performance considerations
• Describe safety management systems
• Recognize accident types/ individual and systems
• Explain the design of accident investigations

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 steam generation theory
• Explain boiler design requirements
• Discuss the different types of boilers
• Describe the different types of boiler fittings and accessories
• Identify the automatic controls associated with boilers
• Describe the different types of instruments and meters
• Explain the procedures associated with boiler water treatment and cleaning
• Describe the procedures for cleaning boiler firesides and watersides
• Describe the procedures associated with boiler 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 five (5) hours of professional development (PDH).

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain human performance and its principles
• Discuss the anatomy of a human triggered event
• Understand strategic approach for human performance
• Describe human fallibility and common traits of human nature
• Discuss performance modes of human performance
• Recognize error-likely situations

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:

• Understand motor and drive systems and their components
• Discuss various industrial uses for motor and drive systems
• Explain tools and methods to analyze systems
• Discuss performance enhancements at the system level
• Discuss performance enhancements at the component level
• Understand the economics of the system and systems management approaches

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).

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss the different types of plumbing fixtures commonly found
• Explain the operation of common plumbing fixtures
• Describe the procedures associated with plumbing repairs
• Explain the procedures for locating pipe leakage
• Describe installation and repair of common water and sewage components
• Describe maintenance and repair of common water and sewage components
• Explain procedures associated with sewer maintenance and repair

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).

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain the operating principles of hydraulic systems
• Discuss operation characteristics and component functions
• Discuss maintenance procedures of a hydraulic system
• Describe the operating principles of pneumatic systems
• Identifying operational characteristics and service procedures applicable to pneumatic systems

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 (4) hours of professional development (PDH).