Ohio-Electrical Engineering Package: 30 PDH

In this course the student will study the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and 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:

• The engineer’s guidelines for practicing within Ohio'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 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.

This is an online course that gives detailed description of the electrical system blackout that happened August 14th, 2003. This was one of the largest blackouts in US history, that affected more than 150 million people. This course will cover the conditions prior to the start of the blackout sequence, conditions prior to the start of the blackout sequence, casual events leading to the power system cascade, and the cascading failure of the power system.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Know what happened, why it happened, and what can be done to minimize future outages
• Learn about power system operations, the planning, design, protection and control

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 seven (7) 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.

In this course the student will review electrical system grounding and bonding issues associated with solidly grounded systems under 600V. This course can serve as an introduction to grounding and bonding for engineers with little or no professional electrical design experience. The course also presents practical, but not widely known, grounding and bonding 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.

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 recent electric vehicle studies and analysis
• Understand the existing vehicle and infrastructure status
• Explain residential and non-residential charging and estimates
• Explain corridor charging estimates and models
• Discuss overall infrastructure changes required for models and estimates

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 three (3) 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.