Interactive & Video Discount Package - Wisconsin Electrical and Ethics 17 PDH

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a brief guidance on new motor purchase decisions, and on how to identify and determine the energy and cost savings for those motors that should be replaced with premium efficiency units.

In 2006, the total annual energy consumption due to motor-driven equipment in the U.S. industrial, commercial, residential, and transportation sectors amounted to 38.4% of total U.S. electrical energy use. While standard and energy efficient motors are still on the market, the energy savings from replacing in-service standard and energy efficient motors with premium efficiency motor models can be substantial.

This presentation begins by examining the in-service motor population and motor uses in the industrial sector. It then discusses the evolution of voluntary and mandatory motor efficiency standards while indicating how to evaluate motor efficiency opportunities, address application considerations, and determine cost-effectiveness. It provides an overview of currently available and emerging advanced “Super Premium” efficiency motor technologies. It also provides tips on “tuning” your in-plant distribution system to ensure efficiency gains are not lost due to undervoltage operation or to excessive voltage unbalance. Finally, the presentation discusses the preventive and predictive maintenance activities necessary to keep premium efficiency motors operating at peak efficiency.

This 5 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to electric motor suppliers and consumers, and electrical and mechanical engineers and designers interested in new motor purchases or standard motor replacement.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provide an overview on the geomagnetic disturbances and their effects on the U.S. electric grid.

Geomagnetic disturbances (GMD), a result of space weather, pose a risk to the U.S. electric grid, although it is not clear how severe a risk. When GMDs occur, they can cause geomagnetically induced current (GIC) in the electric transmission grid, which can cause service disruption or damage under some circumstance.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers and professionals who are interested in learning more about how to protect the electric grid from GMDs. 

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an introductory guidance to better understand how transformers work, how they are best maintained, and how to test and evaluate their condition.

Transformers have been widely used at powerplants for the last century to transfer energy from one circuit to another by electromagnetic induction. While operating principles of transformers remain the same, the challenges of maintaining and testing transformers have evolved along with transformer design and construction. Modern transformers are designed to closer tolerances than transformers in the past.

Thus, effective, regular maintenance and testing is even more essential to continued operation when traditional “overdesign” cannot be relied on to overcome abnormal conditions. The utility engineer must be familiar with all aspects of maintenance and testing and make use of state-of-the-art tools and techniques for evaluating transformer condition.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is intended to electrical and mechanical engineers, maintenance personnel, utility engineers and other technical staff who are interested in gaining a better understanding of transformers.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides information on rules associated with the reactive components of inductance and capacitance and how they affect DC circuits.

It also introduces batteries and describes the types of cells used, circuit arrangements, and associated hazards. This presentation further describes the types of DC generators and their application in terms of voltage production and load characteristics. Finally, it illustrates the types of DC motors and includes discussions of speed control, applications, and load characteristics.

This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to electrical and computer engineers, design and construction personnel, technical staff and facility operators who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the basics of DC systems.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a brief outline on the basic electrical concepts.

The presentation explains the concept of the electrostatic force and the first law of electrostatics. It defines the basic electrical terminology and its corresponding units of measure. It also describes the methods of producing electricity and the principle of magnetism and magnetic circuits. At the end, the presentation provides a list of basic electrical symbols used to read and interpret electrical system diagrams and schematics.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to electrical and computer engineers, design and construction personnel, technical staff and facility operators who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the theory of electricity.

This online engineering PDH video presentation will present information on harmonics and how they may impact an electrical system.

This presentation will discuss how harmonics are generated in an electrical system and the issues that arise because of them.  It will also discuss how to identify sources of harmonics along with the key methods to canceling and mitigating their effects. Filters will be discussed for instrumentation, protection and control. Power Quality Analyzers and Fast Fourier Transformation for voltage and current harmonics will also be reviewed.

This 1 PDH video presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers, technicians, and others who are interested in enhancing their knowledge of harmonics.

This engineering online PDH video presentation will establish, through slides and discussions, the importance of protecting substations from possible damage.

Substations represent the most important junction in the electric power system; generation switchyard, transmission, subtransmission, distribution, unit, customer and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are important substation types that make up the electric grid. Substation represent the most expensive property in the utility system that includes very expensive equipment, such as power transformers, instrument transformers, breakers, capacitors, shunt reactors, switches, SCADA and relays. Nowadays, data and big data play critical role in the energy world to transform substations to intelligent substations; monitoring devices and advanced cameras are installed at critical substations to reduce O&M, extend the life of various components and prevent damage.

This 2 PDH online video presentation is intended for electrical, renewable and sustainability engineers as well as others interested in learning more about intelligent substations.

This online engineering PDH video presentation contains a discussion of, and example calculation of the symmetrical components in power systems engineering. 

The presentation starts with the introduction and definition of the symmetrical components method and focuses on calculation of three-phase voltages and currents from their symmetrical components. The lesson continues with the reverse process of how to find the symmetrical components of a given three-phase set of voltages or currents. Fully worked out examples are included to demonstrate application of the theory to practice.

This 1 PDH online video presentation is intended primarily for electrical engineers, and in particular those interested in learning the foundations of power systems protection engineering, as well as any engineer interested in learning about the interesting and useful theory of symmetrical components that allows decomposition of three-phase systems into their constituent sequence components.

This online engineering PDH video presentation introduces the laws and rules of ethics and professional responsibility governing the practice of engineering in the State of Wisconsin. It also emphasizes on behavior as a professional member of the workforce.

This video presents the provisions of professional conduct from two viewpoints. First, your conduct as a professional engineer with behavior that is unique to engineers such as stamping drawings, signing official or technical documents, preparing estimates for clients or employers, and submitting engineering reports to official agencies. Second, your behavior as a member of the larger workforce where you communicate with team members, follow company policies and procedures, and your overall behavior as part of a workplace community.

Furthermore, this presentation discusses the disciplinary cases and its outcomes in situations where professional engineers have violated the requirements of professional responsibility and ethical conduct – the decisions we make when no one is watching.

This 2 PDH online video presentation is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the State of Wisconsin and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in engineering ethics as a condition of their license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete thirty (30) professional development hours, at least two (2) of which must be relative to the law and rules professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.