AMAWI-30hr Package

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Explain what Airborne Topographic LiDAR is
• Understand the principles and methods of operation
• Discuss overall planning concepts
• Discuss LiDAR data processing and report generation

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:

• 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 four (4) hours of professional development (PDH).

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Discuss land descriptions
• Explain the public land survey system
• Discuss metes-and-bounds surveys
• Discuss lot and block descriptions
• Explain illustrations and coordinates
• Understand form and arrangement

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 the effects of water on slope stability
• Discuss Factor of Safety in Design
• Understand how to solve slope instability problems
• Explain methods and tools to solve slope instability issues
• Understand methods to improve stability

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:

• Understand weight-volume relationships
• Discuss vertical and lateral stress distributions
• Discuss load deformation processes
• Explain strength of soils
• Understand calculating stress and strain

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).

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. Topics include: water needs, preliminary soil investigations, watershed & stormwater runoff estimation, basin sealing, spillways and inlets, and operation & maintenance. This online PDH course is intended for hydrologists, civil engineers, agricultural engineers, construction engineers, municipal engineers, geotechnical engineers and environmental engineers.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Become familiar with the general features and the differences of embankment and excavated ponds
• How to perform a preliminary investigation
• Be able estimate storm water runoff quantity and rate using the runoff curve number method
• Estimate time of concentration for a watershed for a given flow length and average watershed slope
• Advantages and disadvantages of a hooded or canopy inlet spillway and a drop inlet spillway
• Estimate earthfill requirements for an embankment for known end areas and embankment length
• Estimate embankment end area for known embankment height, side slopes, and top width

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a sixteen (16) 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:

• 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.

In this course the student will study the Kentucky Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors Statutes and Regulations, 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:

• The engineer's guidelines for practicing within Kentucky'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 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 three (3) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.