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Teaching Assistant Diploma Course Description This Teaching Assistant Diploma has been developed to enable those working, or hoping to work, in the role of a teaching assistanta ™, to acquire and develop a level of understanding and skills that will help them to do this effectively. The Teaching Assistant Diploma consists of a number of modules, each of which relate to a particular aspect that is important and  more...

Technical Writing for Engineers Overview Effective communication skills are essential to your professional development. This course provides engineers with the tools necessary to write effective specifications, reports, letters, contracts and other documentation required in an engineer's professional practice. Patent writing, video-script writing and copyrighting are also covered. The student must take a multiple-choice  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...

Bearing Capacity of Shallow Footings for Non-Geotechnical Engineers Overview This course is intended for a wide range audience and in particular, the non-geotechnical engineer. The objective of the course is to discuss the bearing capacity of shallow spread footings and illustrate how this value is derived. In this course, you will learn that the allowable bearing capacity of the soil is not only dependent upon the ability of the soil to carry the load, but  more...

Texas ASCE Guidelines for the Evaluation and Repair of Residential Foundations Overview The Texas Board of Professional Engineers (TBPE) rescinded Policy Advisory 09-98-A, Regarding Design, Evaluation and Repair of Residential Foundations. The TBPE now references The Texas Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers and its two documents, Guidelines for the Evaluation and Repair of Residential Foundations, and Recommended Practice for the Design of Residential  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...

Distress Pavement Identification Overview The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) developed a Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program to provide a consistent, uniform basis for collecting distress data for pavement performance. This course provides guidance to improve communications within the pavement community by fostering more uniform and consistent definitions of pavement distress. Highway agencies, airports,  more...

Introduction to Electron Tubes An electron tube is a device used for the processing of electrical signals. Although solid state semiconductors have replaced the electron tubes in most applications, there are still niche applications where electron tubes not only continue to see practical use, but perform their respective tasks better than any solid-state device. For example, tubes are still used in some high-power amplifiers,  more...

Professional Ethics for Texas Engineers Overview Under the Texas Engineering Practice Act, each engineer licensed in the state must spend at least one professional development hour each year reviewing professional ethics and the roles and responsibilities for Engineers. In this course the student will study portions of Chapter 137, "Compliance and Professionalism" and Chapter 139, "Enforcement" of the Texas  more...

Professional Ethics for Texas Engineers - Revised for 2008 Under the Texas Engineering Practice Act each engineer licensed in the state must spend at least one professional development hour each year reviewing professional ethics and the roles and responsibilities for Engineers. In this course the student will study pages 49-64 of the Texas Engineering Practice Act and Board Rules (December 2007 revision) and review some of the recent disciplinary  more...

Acoustical Considerations in HVAC Systems Overview Acoustics and noise have been proven to be factors that affect indoor environmental quality and work, as well as students' performance in a classroom. Although noise and sound are sometimes confused in definition and different factors affect individual hearing ability, the perception of noise and sound is the reality by which people function. Although acoustic considerations are  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...

Energy Independence Act This 2-hour course reviews The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. This is a new law that is intended to complement and expand on the Energy Policy Act, which was passed in 2005. The course gives a brief overview of all 16 sections of the Energy Independence and Security Act. The Act includes new CAFE standards, renewable fuel standards, improved standards for appliances and lighting,  more...

Centrifugal Pumps Overview This 3-hour online course describes the advantages, disadvantages, characteristics, and applications of the centrifugal pump. It defines, derives, and describes the performance parameters, performance curves, and all the characteristics that an engineer needs to know to intelligently specify a centrifugal pump for a specific application. The student not presently knowledgeable about  more...

Filters for Industry Overview Filtration of air is crucial to the HVAC system performance and the commercial and industrial applications that these systems serve. Filters are widely used in nuclear ventilation, air cleanup, and confinement systems to remove particulate matter from air and gas streams. Air filters are defined as porous structures through which air is passed to separate out entrained particulate  more...

Desiccant Dehumidification Wheel Testing Overview Desiccant cooling systems are energy efficient and environmentally benign. Desiccant systems allow more fresh air into buildings, thus improving indoor air quality without using more energy. Desiccant systems also displace chlorofluorocarbon-based cooling equipment, the emissions from which contribute to the depletion of the Earth's ozone layer. In this course the student will  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...

Assuring Project Quality The implementation of major engineering projects usually begins with the development of conceptual feasibility studies followed by the performance of site selection and suitability investigations, the development of site-specific designs and finally by the construction and operation of the structures or facilities in question. It is not unusual for such major projects to take a decade or longer to  more...

ITIL V3 Online Self-Study Training Certification Program itSM Self Study Online Training Solutions itSM Solutions LLC is the industry's first Accredited Training Organization (ATO) to deliver the complete ITIL V3 Certification Series (13 products) online. itSM Solutions uses a unique self-study format that delivers the value of the classroom experience without the hassles (scheduling etc.) and expense (instructor, travel etc.) of the classroom venue.  more...

Licence Controller Course (LCC) The course is a highly visual, well presented, innovative learning tool... that will provide all the learning material you need to get your Manager's Certificate (the LCQ - Licence Controller Qualification). Who is it for? * This course covers all the content required for the new Licence Controller Qualification. The course has been purpose designed for new or existing managers of licensed  more...