Transportation and Ethics 12 PDH Discount Package
Courses in this Package
Engineering Ethics Case Study: The Challenger Disaster (LE3-001)
Increasing Freeway Capacity by Using Safety Lanes as Travel Lanes (C07-007)
Managed Lanes: A Primer (C02-042)
This online engieering PDH course provides instruction in engineering ethics through a case study of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The minimum technical details needed to understand the physical cause of the Shuttle failure are presented. The disaster itself is chronicled through NASA photographs. Next the decision-making process, especially the discussions occurring during the teleconference held on the evening before the launch, is described. Direct quotations from engineers interviewed after the disaster are used to illustrate the ambiguities of the data and the pressures that the decision-makers faced in the months and hours preceding the launch. The course culminates in an extended treatment of six ethical issues raised by Challenger.
This 3 PDH online course is intended for all engineers who are interested in gaining a better understanding about the ethical issues that lead to the Challenger disaster and how they could have been avoided.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Common errors to avoid in studying the history of an engineering failure: the retrospective fallacy and the myth of perfect engineering practice
- Shuttle hardware involved in the disaster
- Decisions made in the period preceding the launch
- Ethical issue: NASA giving first priority to public safety over other concerns
- Ethical issue: the contractor giving first priority to public safety over other concerns
- Ethical issue: whistle blowing
- Ethical issue: informed consent
- Ethical issue: ownership of company records
- Ethical issue: how the public perceives that an engineering decision involves an ethical violation
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "Engineering Ethics Case Study: The Challenger Disaster".
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 discusses the use of safety shoulders as travel lanes to increase the capacity of existing highways. A succinct overview of efforts to use left or right shoulder lanes as temporary or interim travel lanes is presented. The impact on highway performance, operations, safety, maintenance, enforcement, incident response, and costs is discussed. Detailed case studies are presented for four U.S. states and three European countries.
This 7 PDH online course is intended for civil, highway and transportation engineers involved in transportation planning, design and implementation.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Learning about traffic control devices
- Understanding performance measures
- Understanding potential safety benefits
- Understanding maintenance concerns
- Familiarizing with enforcement roles and processes
- Learning about incident response
- Learning about training for personnel
- Understanding costs, liability and legal issues
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Publication No. FHWA-HOP-10-023, "Efficient Use of Highway Capacity Summary", by Beverly Kuhn, November, 2010.
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 is a primer on managed lanes and provides the transportation engineer or planner an overview of the implementation and operation of managed lanes.
Many transportation agencies face a growing demand for increasing road capacity, even though budgets are static or increasing very slowly. As a result, the agencies are considering using lane management strategies that regulate demand, separate traffic streams to reduce turbulence, and utilize available and unused capacity. Application of such operational policies is evolving into the notion of "managed lanes." A managed lane is typically a "freeway-within-a-freeway" where a set of lanes within the freeway cross section is separated from the general-purpose lanes.
This 2 PDH online course is intended for civil, highway and transportation engineers involved in transportation planning, design and implementation.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Knowing the definition of managed lanes
- Learning about pricing, vehicle eligibility, and access control for managed lanes
- Understanding the best management practices in planning and project development
- Understanding the best management practices in facility monitoring and evaluation
- Understanding the best management practices in life-cycle considerations
- Familiarizing with managed lane case studies
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Publication No. FHWA-HOP-05-031, "Managed Lanes: A Primer", August 2008.
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.