Compressed Air Energy Storage and Pumped Storage Hydropower Concepts: 4 PDH

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  Nevada-Electrical Engineering Package #2: 30 PDH

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  Five Electrical Engineering courses plus Nevada Statutes, Codes, & Ethics course that will earn 30 PDH guaranteed to be accepted by the Nevada Board of Licensure of Professional Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors Instructor: Juan Pesante, PE

  Nevada – Statutes, Codes, & Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

  Preview Course: Nevada – Statutes, Codes, and Ethics
  In this course the student will study the Nevada State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Statutes and Codes, including Professional Engineering Ethics.

  SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

  This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • • The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Nevada’s statutes and codes
    • 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.

  Concepts for Advanced Electrical Knowledge & Practical Troubleshooting: 8 PDH

  Preview Course: Concepts for Advanced Electrical Knowledge
  In this course, applicable to all professional engineering backgrounds, the student will understand the concepts of electricity and mechanism and design of electronics. They will understand how electrical components work from theory to design to the operation of common industrial circuits with tips for practical troubleshooting.

  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 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.

  Engineer’s Guide to Corrosion-Causes, Protection and Control: 8 PDH

  Preview Course: Engineer’s Guide to Corrosion
  In this course, applicable to all professional engineering backgrounds, the student will understand the concepts of electricity and mechanism and design of electronics. They will understand how electrical components work from theory to design to the operation of common industrial circuits with tips for practical troubleshooting.

  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 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.

  Electrical Reliability of North American Electric Power Systems: 5 PDH

  Preview Course: Electrical Reliability of North American Electric Power Systems
  In this course the student will understand the North American interconnected electric grid and will become familiar with the requirements on the users, owners and operators of bulk power system to ensure reliable grid operations.

  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 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.

  Electricity Storage Services and Benefits: 3 PDH

  Preview Course: Electricity Storage Services and Benefits
  In this course the student will understand modern energy storage systems and the benefits offered for utilities and end users illustrated through use cases.

  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 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.

  High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Technology: 3 PDH

  Preview Course: High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Technology
  In this course the student will understand high voltage direct current systems, theory, benefits, and components as well as a review of current applications used today.

  SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

  This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • • Discuss why use HVDC systems
    • Understand the main types of HVDC schemes
    • Discuss converter theory
    • Explain principle arrangement of an HVDC transmission project
    • Discuss main components of a HVDC system
    • Understand managing a HVDC system project

  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 3 professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.
  

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  Nevada-Environmental Engineering Package: 30 PDH

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  Eleven Environmental Engineering courses plus Nevada Statutes, Codes, & Ethics course that will earn 30 PDH guaranteed to be accepted by the Nevada Board of Licensure of Professional Engineers and Professional Land SurveyorsInstructor: Raymond Bosek, PE

  Nevada – Statutes, Codes, & Ethics for Professional Engineers: 3 PDH

  In this course the student will study the Nevada State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Statutes and Codes, including Professional Engineering Ethics.

  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.

  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.

  Fire Protection System Design: 3 PDH

  This three (3) hour course overviews standards to design and build an environment for building occupants that is reasonably safe from fire and products of combustion as well as how to provide a reasonable level of building usability and property protection from the effects of fire and products of combustion.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  Energy Performance of LEED for New Construction Buildings: 2 PDH

  This course focuses on the measured energy performance for 121 LEED New Construction buildings, and compares the data to a variety of benchmarks, including Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) averages, Energy Star ratings and modeled energy performance estimates provided with LEED submittals.

  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.
  

  
  Preview Course: Nevada – Statutes, Codes, and Ethics
  Preview Course: Process Design for Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels
  Preview Course: Carbon Absorption of Volatile Organic Compounds
  Preview Course: Building Envelope Impact on HVAC Energy Use
  Preview Course: Fire Protection System Design
  Preview Course: Hurricane Mitigation: Summary Report On Building Performance
  Preview Course: A Guide to Offshore Wind Energy
  Preview Course: Hazardous Waste Identification
  Preview Course: Improving Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings
  Preview Course: Ponds-Planning, Design, Construction
  Preview Course: Energy Performance of LEED for New Construction Buildings
  Preview Course: Wastewater Treatment Plants