Pennsylvania Geotechnical and Ethics 24 PDH Discount Package 3
Courses in this Package
Design of Pile Foundations (G10-001)
Design of Sheet Pile Walls (G05-001)
Hydraulic Performance of Shallow Foundations for the Support of Vertical-Wall Bridge Abutments (G07-007)
Determining Negligence in Engineering Failures (LE2-012)
This online engineering PDH course provides guidance on foundation exploration and testing procedures, load test methods, analysis techniques, design criteria and procedures, and construction considerations for the selection, design, and installation of pile foundations. The guidance is based on the present state of technology for pile-soil-structure-foundation interaction behavior.
Since the understanding of the physical causes of pile behavior is actively expanding by better definition through ongoing research, prototype, model pile foundation testing and development of more refined analytical models, this course is intended to provide examples and procedures of what has been proven successful.
This 10 PDH online course is applicable to geotechnical and structural engineers as well as design and construction personnel interested in understanding the construction techniques related to pile behavior during installation.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the stratigraphy of the subgrade as well as its engineering geology characteristics
- Selecting the criteria, procedures and parameters necessary for the analysis and design of pile foundations
- Understanding the various engineering considerations pertaining to the construction of pile foundations
- Understanding the methodology and objective of the field pile test program
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the US Corps of Engineers Publication EM 1110-2-2906, "Design of Pile Foundations"
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides guidance on foundation exploration and testing procedures, analysis techniques, allowable criteria, design procedures, and construction consideration for the selection, design, and installation of sheet pile walls and flood walls. The guidance is based on the present state of the technology for sheet pile-soil-structure interaction behavior.
Since the understanding of the physical causes of sheet pile wall behavior is actively expanding by better definition through ongoing research, prototype, model sheet pile wall testing and development of more refined analytical models, this course is intended to provide examples and procedures of what has been proven successful.
This 5 PDH online course is applicable to geotechnical and structural engineers as well as design and construction personnel interested in understanding the construction techniques related to sheet pile wall behavior during installation.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the stratigraphy of the subgrade as well as its engineering geology characteristics
- Understanding current methodologies for evaluating system loads that govern the design of a sheet pile wall
- Evaluating failure modes and selecting certain system parameters to prevent failure
- Selecting criteria, procedures and parameters necessary for the structural design of sheet pile walls
- Understanding the behavior of the wall/soil system (interface interaction analysis)
- Understanding the various engineering considerations pertaining to the construction of sheet pile walls
- Understanding the special design considerations pertaining to the construction of sheet pile walls
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the US Corps of Engineers Publication EM 1110-2-2504, "Design of Sheet Pile Walls".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides basic information on hydraulic performance of shallow foundations for the support of vertical-wall bridge abutments.
Scour at the base of bridge abutments during floods is a common cause of bridge failure in the United States. Shallow abutment foundations located at or near the channel banks are considered more vulnerable than other foundations because they are closer to the streambed and can significantly constrict flood flows. These types of abutments are frequently implemented for single-span bridges, and scour countermeasures are often integrated into the design to avoid placing the foundation below local scour depth.
Therefore, to protect small single-span bridge abutments built on shallow foundations from scour damage, methods for countermeasure design are needed that consider the abutment foundation and scour countermeasures as an integrated component of the bridge. The research study described in this course is designed to provide a complete picture of the flow field and local bed shear stresses on heterogeneous bed roughness in the bridge opening.
This 7 PDH online course is applicable to geotechnical engineers who are interested in improving their knowledge about scours occurring at the base of bridge abutment during floods.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarizing with the performed literature research to determine depth and location of scour
- Understanding the proposed guidance on the hydraulic requirements for shallow abutment foundations
- Gaining a general overview of the development of a conceptual model for the increased shear in the middle of the contracted channel section
- Learning about the experimental equipment, program, and findings for several abutment riprap layouts
- Understanding the different design guidelines and requirements for riprap aprons for vertical-wall abutments with shallow foundations
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "Hydraulic Performance of Shallow Foundations for the Support of Vertical-Wall Bridge Abutments”, which is based on the Department of Transportation document “Hydraulic Performance of Shallow Foundations for the Support of Vertical-Wall Bridge Abutments”, Publication No. FHWA-HRT-17-013.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This engineering online PDH course will establish conditions under which, when an engineering failure has occurred, it can be attributed to negligence.
Five causes of failure are proposed: negligence, rare failure mode, overlooked failure mode, new (previously unrecognized) failure mode, and incorrect assessment of a known risk. Negligence is the only cause that involves failing in an ethical duty. These concepts are illustrated with five case studies of failures ranging from gross negligence to absolutely unforeseeable events: 1) the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, for which a new possible cause was identified 95 years later (2014); 2) a building collapse in Bangladesh in which over 1,000 people died—one of the worst structural engineering disasters in history; 3) a meteorite strike of a private residence; 4) the crash of the British-French Concorde supersonic airliner, caused by an unlikely tire blow-out; and 5) radiation overdoses received by patients treated by the Thorac-25 medical linear accelerator, caused by errors in the software controlling the machine.
The 2 PDH online course is intended for engineers concerned with ethical behavior in engineering practice.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the definitions of negligence and standard of care
- Relating safety to risk
- Knowing the principle of Knightian uncertainty
- Avoiding the retrospective fallacy in accident investigations
- Avoiding the fallacy, in accident investigations, of assuming perfect engineering practice
- Using the results of failure investigations appropriately
- Being aware of the negative effects of punishment on learning from accidents
- Categorizing the general causes of engineering failures
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.