Ohio-Mechanical Engineering Package #2: 30 PDH

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.

Fluid flow and practical fluid mechanics is essential to any engineer's knowledge base. This course will overview the basic principles of fluid flow including the three key attributes to solve all fluid problems. Bernoulli Equation will be discussed in detail to enable understanding of different types of energy in a fluid stream. Laminar and turbulent flow, head loss, and factors affecting head loss will also be dicussed in detail and explained with practical problems.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Review of key principles
• Shear Stress in a fluid
• Conservation of Mass
• Conservation of Momentum
• Reynolds number
• Laminar versus turbulent flow
• Bernoulli Equation
• Major head losses
• Minor head losses
• System level analysis

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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

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 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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

This online course provides an overview of centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, pump components, protection, and operational considerations. Pumps serve in a wide range of applications, from industrial uses such as pumping oil or natural gas, to consumer uses in vehicles or decorative fountains. Knowledge of the different designs of pumps can be used when selecting them for use in a system.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Centrifugal Pump Design and Classification
• Pump Operation and Protection
• Cavitation Prevention
• Positive Displacement Pump Design and Classification

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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

Valves are a ubiquitous feature in many industrial facilities. As Valves make up the most common single piece of equipment found in industrial facilities familiarity with valves is useful practical knowledge. This course will provide an overview of the common components of valves, types of valves usage, design considerations, and actuation methods.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Valve Functions
• Basic Parts of Valves
• Different Types of Values (Usage and Design)
• General Design Considerations when using valves
• Types of Valve Actuators

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 four (4) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

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 thirty (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 eight (8) professional development hours (PDH) of continuing education.

This course focuses on criteria for water source development, design of small water supply, treatment, and distribution systems. This professional engineer online course is from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manual on the Design of Small Water Systems. This manual provides information of interest to planners and designers of small water systems. The major emphasis of this course is on the design of systems that will be effective and reliable, requiring a level of operation and management activity commensurate with their physical size and the available sources.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE OR SKILL OBTAINED

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Preliminary Water System Planning and Design Considerations
• Water Quality Requirements (State, EPA, local)
• Water Quantity Requirements
• Water Source Options and Source Development
• Water Treatment Unit Operations such as Disinfection, Iron Removal
• Manganese Removal, Hardness Removal, Taste and Odor Removal
• Stability and Corrosion Control, Turbidity Removal, Color Removal, and many other technologies and their applications

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.