Online Calculations In eLearning

PC Fundamentals for Design Professionals Overview The goal of this 1-hour online course is to provide a basic understanding of what's inside the Personal Computer that you use every day. Much of this knowledge will even apply to much larger computers. The content is geared for design professionals, but is understandable and usable by anyone. After completing this course, you should have a better understanding of your Personal  more...

Personal Computers for Engineers How to Keep Your Computer Safe and Functional The personal computer has become an indispensable tool in the practice of engineering. Many engineers now rely on their computer more than their calculator, more than their phone ? in fact, more than any other instrument. If you rely on a personal computer or laptop to send emails, write reports, and perform calculations, then you have likely experienced at some point the frustration of a slow  more...

Finance and Accounting for Engineers The scope of this seminar is to provide an overview of important principles in the fields of finance and accounting. This self study course caters to Engineers, Technicians and Technical Managers. Most Engineers, Technicians and Technical Managers feel inadequately equipped for understanding certain important finance and accounting principles and tools. Understanding of finance and accounting  more...

Design of Buildings in High Wind Coastal Areas This course will review the design process required for residential buildings (one to three-story) to withstand hurricanes and other severe natural hazard events. The required calculations for all of the site specific design loads (forces) which will be applied to the structure is not within the scope of this course, however these site specific forces, which have been previously calculated in a  more...

Retaining Walls for Non-Geotechnical Engineers Overview This course is intended for a wide range audience and in particular, the non-geotechnical engineer and is not intended as an exhaustive review of the subject. The objective of the course is to discuss the method of calculating the active earth pressure using the Rankine and Coulomb methods. The course also outlines the method used to calculate the factors of safety for sliding,  more...

Using Excel for Soil Testing This course covers many soils tests that can be done in Excel. Liquid Limit Plastic Limit Sieve Analysis Specific Gravity Proctor Each test includes a description of the equipment used, the procedure used along with how the calculations and graphs look in Excel. Many engineers used to use a slide rule to calculate and graph paper to plot up the results. Excel can be used to do the  more...

Sanitary and Industrial Wastewater Collection - Gravity Systems Overview Wastewater is a part of everyday life. Every living creature and every industry on earth creates waste in some form or another. Wastewater acts as a medium to direct waste to various treatment plants by means of sanitary sewer lines. Some sewer lines use a combination of gravity flow and flow induced by pumping systems. This 4 PDH course is Part I of a two-part series. This course will  more...

Stormwater Detention - More Accurante Models Using Modified Rational SCS Method This course discusses two common methods of storm water runoff and detention, the Rational (Modified Rational) and SCS Methods. In depth discussion of input variables along with limitations for each method will allow the student to more accurately model detention for a particular site, while maintaining practical engineering practices. The accuracy of each method is evaluated by using examples of  more...

Signal Mounting Alternatives This five hour course will discuss the different types of traffic signal supports and signal mounting hardware that are in use by the industry. There are no firmly established rules on how Traffic Signal Heads shall be placed at an intersection, except that they must provide motorists an unobstructed view of the signal indication and the primary Traffic Signal Heads shall be within the Cone of  more...

Determination of Site-Specific Loads for Residential Buildings in Coastal Areas Overview This course will review the procedures and formulas required to determine the appropriate forces which residential buildings could become subjected to during hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other severe natural hazard events. The design procedures required to determine the site specific design loads (forces) which will be applied to the structure, is the basis of this course.  more...

AC Single Phase Energy Overview This course introduces single phase, electrical power definitions and calculations. Energy and power considerations are at the heart of determining electrical operating costs. A basic knowledge of the relationships between the power source and typical electrical loads enables the engineer to determine the energy required by a load and the rate (power) at which it is delivered. An  more...

Highly Reliable Electrical Power for Information Systems Overview Highly reliable electrical power systems are required to serve critical Information Systems (IS) sites. This course provides an overview of power quality problems, with an emphasis on Information Technology (IT) equipment. Modern technology's sensitive components present new challenges for plant engineers who design, specify, install, or maintain plants and equipment. SCR and  more...

Radioactivity Fundamentals With the increased interest in the application of nuclear power in electric power generation and the associated engineering, a review of the principles of radioactivity is important. There have been changes in the units and measurement of radioactivity in the past 30 years. This course is intended to be a review of the fundamentals of radioactivity; what it is, where it is found, what its  more...

Revisions for the 2008 National Electric Code - Part 2 This course is intended to familiarize the reader with the major changes contained in the 2008 National Electrical Code. It is suitable for anyone exposed to the NEC at any level. The course addresses Code revisions that apply to all types of occupancies: residential, commercial, and industrial. Part I of this course contains Code-wide changes, definitions, and an analysis of approximately 30 of  more...

Revisions for the 2005 National Electrical Code This course is intended to familiarize the reader with the major changes contained in the 2005 National Electrical Code. It is suitable for anyone exposed to the NEC at any level. The course addresses Code revisions that apply to all types of occupancies: residential, commercial, and industrial. Through the headings at the beginning of each Code change addressed in the course, the reader will  more...

Revisions for the 2008 National Electric Code - Part 1 This course is intended to familiarize the reader with the major changes contained in the 2008 National Electrical Code. It is suitable for anyone exposed to the NEC at any level. The course addresses Code revisions that apply to all types of occupancies: residential, commercial, and industrial. Part I of this course contains Code-wide changes, definitions, and an analysis of approximately 30 of  more...

Hydraulic Design of Storm Sewers with Excel Overview Storm sewers are widely used to carry away runoff from storms, primarily in urban areas. The hydraulic design begins after the locations for the manholes for the system have been determined. Between each pair of manholes the storm sewer will have a constant slope and diameter. The hydraulic design process results in determination of an appropriate diameter and slope for each length of  more...

Fundamentals of Combustion for Environmental Applications Overview Workers in environmental engineering, as design engineers, operators, permitting agency staff, consultants, etc. will benefit greatly from a basic understanding of the fundamental laws, relationships, and calculation methods that characterize the behavior of combustion systems. This course provides such a capability, introduces the concept of ?wastes as fuels? and gives the diligent  more...

HVAC - Concepts and Fundamentals Overview HVAC helps keep people comfortable and healthy by maintaining good indoor air quality, humidity and comfortable temperatures. Designing for comfort requires integrated knowledge of human physiology, heat transfer, psychrometrics, and mechanical systems. Most professionals don't learn this stuff in school or on the jobsite, but are expected unrealistically to meet your physiological needs  more...

HVAC - Equipment and Systems Overview HVAC system components may be grouped into three functional categories: source components, distribution components, and delivery components. Source components provide or remove heat or moisture. Distribution components convey a heating or cooling medium from a source location to portions of a building that require conditioning. Delivery components serve as an interface between the  more...

Engineering Economics - Fundamentals Overview The "dollars and cents" business side of Engineering often doesn't receive the emphasis that employers would like. While engineers typically work towards a goal of finding the most efficient solution to a problem, in the business world, "efficiency" often means the least-cost solution. Engineering Economics provides the tools for determining the most  more...

Pipe Flow Measurement Overview The term pipe flow is being used here to refer to any closed conduit flow under pressure. The closed conduit is often circular, but also may be square or rectangular (such as a heating duct) or any other shape. The other major category of flow is open channel flow, which is any flowing liquid, which has a free surface open to atmospheric pressure. Measurement of the flow rate of a  more...

Pump Suction Characteristics Overview This 1-hour online course describes the significance and importance of the net positive suction head (NPSH) in designing a pumping system, specifying a pump, and diagnosing pumping problems. It is basic mechanical engineering, but truly understanding and correctly applying knowledge such as this tends to slip away from us unless we use it frequently. The tendency for engineers who grew  more...

Pipe Support Systems This 2-hour online course describes the importance of pipe support design, particularly in the power industry where high pressure and high temperature systems are encountered. The basic theories and principles of pipe stress calculations are discussed, although the course does not go into the detailed calculations, which are generally performed by reiterative computer programs. The student must  more...

Fundamentals of Refrigeration Overview This course covers the fundamentals and the principles of the single compression refrigeration cycle. It includes the thermodynamic properties of the refrigerants and basic calculations used to determine capacities of each one of the components in the single stage refrigeration cycle. Only basic knowledge of thermodynamics is needed to understand the Pressure to Enthalpy diagrams and  more...

Fan Coil Basics - Titus Overview Fan coil units are products that have been around for years; however, there has been a growing interest in the use of these products for a variety of reasons. Fan coil units can provide zone control of heating and cooling in a manner that matches the zone load. For fan coil products, the typical application characteristics are similar to multi-family residential building. For these  more...

Process Piping Part 2 - Metallic Piping Systems This 2-hour online course addresses various types of metallic piping and their properties, corrosion theory, corrosion prevention, pipe support requirements, thermal stresses, pipe specifications, material properties, common alloys, and their proper application. This course is relevant to Civil, Environmental, Sanitary, and Mechanical Engineers in many industries, including water/wastewater,  more...

Process Piping Part 3 - Non-Metallic Piping Systems This 2-hour online course addresses various types of non-metallic piping and their properties, pipe support requirements, thermal stresses, pipe specifications, material properties, common products, and their proper application. Included is a treatment of thermoplastic, thermosetting, rubber, and elastomeric materials. This course is relevant to Civil, Environmental, Sanitary, and Mechanical  more...

Process Piping Part 5 - Process Valves This 2-hour online course addresses the role of valves in process piping systems. The course covers the most common types of valves, their materials, characteristics, specifications, and their appropriate applications. This course includes information about pressure ratings, chemical compatibility, shutoff service, flow control service, and valve operators. This course is relevant to Civil,  more...

Hydraulic Design of Fire Water Sprinkler Systems Containing Typical Branch Lines Overview This course will teach you step by step how to perform manual hydraulic calculations on a fire sprinkler system with typical branch lines. This information will be useful for fire protection, mechanical or plumbing engineers to gain knowledge of the requirements and procedures outlined in the National Fire Protection Association, Standard No. 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems. The  more...

Process Piping - Part 1 - General Piping Design This 3-hour online course provides a general overview of piping materials, strength design, temperature effects, transient pressures, pipeline hydraulics, connections, supports, piping identification, and testing. This course is relevant to Civil, Environmental, Sanitary, and Mechanical Engineers in the many industries, including water/wastewater, manufacturing, chemical, and HVAC. The course  more...

Psychrometrics and its Use in HVAC Overview This course is designed to be a practical refresher course and reminder of psychrometrics for engineers that already have a basic knowledge in the area of HVAC. The beginning of this course briefly covers the basic concepts that are essential to understand the properties and conditions of the air. After these concepts, this course covers the mass and energy conservation equations of  more...

High Temperature Water Heating Systems Overview High temperature heating water systems have numerous advantages over steam heat distribution systems. The inherent losses of a steam system mean that significant fuel savings in a high temperature heating water system may be achieved relative to an equivalent capacity steam system. As energy rates continue to climb, alternate types of central plant heating concepts should be  more...

Heat Pump Systems Overview This three-hour course reviews the operation of residential heat pump systems. In this course, we review basic operation of heat pumps, the various components of heat pump systems, the types of heat pumps, and the performance characteristics of heat pump systems. There is a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions at the end of the course to obtain PDH credits.  more...

HVAC Applications Through Computer Simulation Overview Solving some HVAC problems can be, quite frankly, very tedious work. Mixing of air streams, heating and cooling coil processes, and HVAC system simulation all require laborious calculations by the engineer. In this course, you will learn how to solve these problems using a spreadsheet program, which is included as part of the purchase price for the course. The course first covers the  more...

Heat Loss Calculations and Principles The prime requirement in respect of the indoor climate in a building is that room temperature should be at a comfortable level, regardless of the weather conditions outside. As soon as the ambient temperature is lower than the indoor temperature, heat flows out from the building through its boundary surfaces (the building envelope). At the same time, the building also loses heat through air  more...

HVAC Cooling Load Calculations and Principles ...ucts being stored. Generally, heating and cooling load calculations involve a systematic and stepwise procedure, which account for all the building energy flows. In practice, a variety of methods ranging from simple rules-of-thumb to complex transfer function methods are used to arrive at the building loads. This 6- hour course provides a procedure for preparing a manual calculation for  more...

Fluid Flow Fundamentals This course covers the basics of fluid flow. You will learn the difference between laminar and turbulent flow, how to calculate Reynolds Number and how to do simple piping friction loss calculations. Learn the difference between pressure head, velocity head and elevation head, which are the components that comprise the Bernoulli Equation ? the basic equation of fluid flow. Understand the  more...

Gas Pipeline Hydraulics Overview This online course on gas pipeline hydraulics covers the steady state analysis of compressible fluid flow through pipelines. Mathematical derivations are reduced to a minimum, since the intent is to provide the practicing engineer a practical tool to understand and apply the concepts of gas flow in pipes. In particular, we will cover natural gas pipeline transportation including how  more...

Liquid Pipeline Hydraulics Overview This online course on liquid pipeline hydraulics covers the steady state transportation of liquids in pipelines. These include water lines, refined petroleum products and crude oil pipelines. This course will prove to be a refresher in fluid mechanics as it is applied to real world pipeline design. Although many formulas and equations are introduced, we will concentrate on how these  more...

Financial Principles of Project Management Overview Contractors and consultants in all fields face a wide range of contract types and terms and conditions in proposal requests from both government and commercial clients. Winning the contract and delivering the required products and services while making a reasonable profit is becoming more and more difficult in the face of stiffer competition, more demanding clients, and more onerous  more...

Introduction to Solar Engineering Solar energy travels from the sun to the earth in the form of electromagnetic radiation. In this course, properties of electromagnetic radiation will be discussed and basic calculations for electromagnetic radiation will be described. Several solar position parameters will be covered along with means of calculating values for them. The major methods by which solar radiation is converted into  more...

Passive Solar Heating Basics Overview The principles of passive solar heating, such as basic types of systems, their description, and the components making up any passive system are presented in this course. Sources of data for heating requirements and available solar radiation throughout the U.S are given along with a method for estimating the rate of heat loss from a home. A method for using these three inputs to estimate  more...

VBScript Instructor, Steve Holzner, teaches you VBScript , the powerful scripting language that comes built into Internet Explorer. Learn to use VBScript code to change web pages on the fly, check data before it's sent to the server, or perform calculations behind the scenes. Make web pages come alive by handling the data the user enters into controls like text fields, list boxes, and dialog boxes.  more...

FileMaker Pro 8 Beginner FileMaker Pro 8 is powerful enough to handle most database jobs yet easy enough to create simple solutions in minutes. This practical "how to" course by FileMaker expert, John Mark Osborne, starts from beginner level and uses a single invoicing example to demonstrate all the features in FileMaker Pro including: field creation, finding, sorting, layout mode, container fields, auto-entry,  more...

FileMaker Pro 8 Intermediate FileMaker Pro is powerful enough to handle most database jobs yet easy enough to create simple solutions in minutes. This practical "how to" course by FileMaker expert, John Mark Osborne, starts from intermediate level and uses a single invoicing example to demonstrate FileMaker Pro features and techniques including interface design, relational database design, relationship operators, multiple  more...

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FileMaker Pro 3 4 Create powerful relational databases that allow you to produce invoices, form letters, client contact databases, purchase order systems, and much more. Virtual Training Company's FileMaker Pro 3/4 tutorial teaches you how to create relational databases, reports, use scripts, calculations, and functions. Go ahead and get started by clicking below on any selection you want to learn about.  more...

Microsoft Access 2000 Advanced This one-day intensive course is designed to give existing users an insight into some of the more advanced features in Access. This entirely 'hands on' course will give participants a further understanding of database design principles, advanced forms, reports and query design, including using calculations.  more...

Microsoft Access 97 Advanced This intensive course is designed to give existing users of Access for Windows 97 an insight into some of the more advanced features in Access. This entirely 'hands on' course will give readers a further understanding of database design principles, advanced forms, reports and query design, including using calculations. It will also show customisation of the database through command buttons, macros  more...

Microsoft Access 97 Expert User Part 2 This intensive course is designed to give existing users of Access 97 an insight into some of the more advanced features in Access. This entirely 'hands on' course will give readers a further understanding of database design principles, advanced forms, reports and query design, including using calculations. It will also show customisation of the database through command buttons, macros and  more...

Microsoft Access 2000 Advanced This one-day intensive course is designed to give existing users an insight into some of the more advanced features in Access. This entirely 'hands on' course will give participants a further understanding of database design principles, advanced forms, reports and query design, including using calculations.  more...