Top 10 Courses: Electrical
Solar Electric Generation: Technologies
5 Hours | Only $134.75
Rolling blackouts in California in 2000 and 2001, low hydro generation in the Pacific Northwest in 2001, and a power plant construction boom in Texas have all drawn attention to electricity issues in the West. Solar conditions are optimal for the production of solar energy in the desert southwest – and yet solar energy remains underutilized. See how the sun’s power can be harnessed with different types of solar generating technologies, and take a look at the area’s potential for producing clean, renewable, affordable energy.
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Concrete 1: Evaluation and Causes of Damage
1 Hour | Only $38.95
Don’t step in it when it comes to repairing damaged concrete – learn how to evaluate the problem properly to ensure that the steps you take to fix it are constructive. This 1-hour interactive online course begins with techniques for surveying the condition of the concrete and reviews design and construction documentation, operation and maintenance records, instrumentation data, visual examination, methods of nondestructive testing, and laboratory specimen analysis. The second part of the course identifies basic causes of deterioration and covers typical symptoms and recommendations for preventing further damage.
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Basic Civil Engineering - Culvert Design 1
1 Hour | Only $38.95
A stormwater "conveyance system" includes the drainage facilities and features, both natural and constructed, that collect, contain, and provide for the flow of surface and stormwater from the highest points on the land down to receiving water. This 1-hour online course covers designing the parts of a conveyance system (or culvert) and takes a look at sizing gutters, ditches, pipes and channels.
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Engineering Economic Analysis
5 Hours | Only $249.75
You know time is money – but do you know how much time is how much money, and why? This 5-hour interactive online course reviews engineering economy analysis concepts. The more common analysis factors in economic analysis are explored, along with discrete compounding and continuous compounding factors. Methods for converting values (such as future values to present values) are shown, along with their complementary equations. Several analysis methods are reviewed, and the effects of taxes and depreciation effects are explained and shown in examples. Engage those big brains!
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Excel for Engineers and Scientists: Calculations
4 Hours | Only $155.80
Engineering and science require imagination, insight, reasoning, and calculation. These factors mutually reinforce each other, so if you can get help with one of them you have more than a 25 percent advantage at the start. This 4-hour interactive online course will help you with the easiest one: calculation. Calculation is easier than imagination, insight, and reasoning, but it is not always easy and can be tedious. This “how to” course will give you some of the survival skills you need to get you through. The other three are up to you!
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Green Infrastructure 6: Best Practices for Stormwater Management
3 Hours | Only $116.85
This 3-hour interactive online course gives you the information and action items to assess sites and identify opportunities to use Best Management Practices (BMPs) in “green” planning, design and construction. You'll learn about the “green” varieties of integrated stormwater management planning, water pollution prevention, construction runoff prevention, constructed wetlands and much, much more. Use the material to develop your own checklists to improve existing policies and procedures.
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Advanced Stormwater Treatment: Design
3 Hours | Only $149.85
Stormwater management is receiving increased scrutiny because of EPA Phase II regulations. If you already have a working knowledge of stormwater management but need to bone up on the regulatory driving forces behind it, design criteria, and preliminary treatment design, this 2-hour interactive online course should be required reading. Discussions include identification of target constituents, identification and evaluation of potentially appropriate control technologies, suggested methodology for evaluating control technologies, and more.
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Cost Estimating: Fundamentals
1 Hour | Only $26.95
If you’re new to cost estimating, this course provides a comprehensive (and necessary) introduction. Experienced estimators can use it course as a reference guide and refresher course. Learn to recognize the different types of cost estimates and when to use them; review common pitfalls, go over ways to adjust for inflation and address the need for contingency. Finally, be sure you understand where in a project cost estimates are used!
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Airport Pavements - Design Considerations, Introduction
1 Hour | Only $38.95
This 1-hour interactive online course provides an introduction into design considerations for airport pavement design for both flexible and rigid pavements. These include selection of the design aircraft, determination of equivalent annual departures for the design aircraft, traffic distribution, typical sections and frost and permafrost design. The course is based on design guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Account Executives, Owners and Contractors: Managing Projects to Success
2 Hours | Only $77.90
Infrastructure is the complex, interdependent system that supports our way of life. You can take advantage of a wide range of opportunities to build and rebuild a “Green” Infrastructure. This 2-hour interactive online course gives you the facts about why "green" is cost effective, healthy and visually appealing. In this course you will find current examples of successful green applications as well as principles and practices that you can use to develop your own comprehensive plans.
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