Interactive & Video Discount Package - Maryland Structural and Ethics 16 PDH

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation offers detailed exploration of design principles for structures intended for vertical evacuation during tsunamis, emphasizing their critical role in protecting vulnerable coastal communities. It highlights the importance of hazard assessment, site selection, structural resilience, and refuge design criteria to mitigate the risks of tsunami-induced damage, injury, and loss of life.

The presentation begins with a discussion of tsunami hazards, historical tsunami events, and the unique effects of tsunamis on buildings and infrastructure. It delves into key considerations for selecting, planning, and designing vertical evacuation structures, including hazard and risk assessment, probabilistic and deterministic modeling, and lessons learned from past events. Participants will gain insights into tsunami hazard mapping, inundation modeling, structural design for tsunami loads, debris impact, scour, uplift forces, and strategies for preventing progressive collapse.

Additionally, the presentation addresses regulatory guidance, decision-making frameworks, and examples of successful vertical evacuation strategies implemented in tsunami-prone regions.
This 2 PDH online interactive presentation is designed for civil and structural engineers, architects, planners, and emergency management professionals who seek to enhance their understanding of tsunami hazard mitigation, improve design standards for refuge structures, and safeguard coastal populations.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides an overview of the risk of earthquakes to schools and the processes and methods that can be used to reduce it.

Earthquakes have long been feared as one of nature’s most terrifying phenomena. In the aftermath of any damaging earthquake, there is an immediate need of shelter for people who have been displaced from their homes. In earthquake-prone regions, school sites are often used to provide immediate shelter. However, possible use of school buildings as a safe haven for the community involves complex design and construction issues. This presentation outlines the earthquake risk to schools and the processes and methods that can be used to reduce it.

An explanation of the nature and probability of earthquakes is provided, together with procedures for determining the earthquake threat to specific locations and for evaluating the vulnerability of a school building. An assessment of the scope and effectiveness of seismic building codes is followed by a description of current methods of designing for seismic resistance in new buildings and upgrading existing buildings. Lastly, this presentation presents guidance for school districts, facility planners, and designers on determining acceptable risk and the use of performance-based design.

This 2 PDH online course is intended for structural, civil, mechanical and construction engineers, and would also be of particular interest to engineers serving as consultants to school officials involved in the technical and financial decisions of school construction, repair, and renovations.

This online engineering PDH course provides engineering design and economic guidance to engineers, architects, and local code officials about what constitutes technically feasible and cost-effective retrofitting measures for flood-prone residential structures.

The focus of this course is the retrofitting of one- to four-family residences subject to flooding situations without wave action. It presents various retrofitting measures that provide both active and passive efforts and employ both dry and wet floodproofing measures. These include elevation of the structure in place, relocation of the structure, construction of barriers (floodwalls and levees), dry floodproofing (sealants, closures, sump pumps, and backflow valves), and wet floodproofing (flood damage-resistant materials and protection of utilities and contents).

Also, It delves into the regulatory landscape, highlighting the roles of local officials and the guidelines set forth by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the International Building Code (IBC). The course further examines the critical factors influencing retrofitting decisions. Additionally, it offers guidance on identifying and addressing specific hazards to determine the most suitable retrofitting solutions for residential structures. Therefore, the focus of this course is on retrofitting buildings that are subject to flooding.

This 3 PDH online course is applicable to structural engineers, geotechnical engineers, and environmental engineers and professionals who are interested in learning more about the design, analysis, and implementation of measures to mitigate flood risks and improve the resilience of residential structures against natural hazards.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides information on the installation of different types of seismic restraints for mechanical and electrical equipment.

Seismic restraints are special devices that can be installed to buildings to minimize earthquake damage. These devices can be mechanical or electrical and include isolation systems, roof attachments, cable or strut attachments, and steel shapes.

This course shows equipment installers how to attach mechanical equipment to a building to minimize earthquake damage. Many attachment examples are presented, to include anchoring and the use of special devices such as seismic restraint devices.

This 1 PDH online interactive presentation is applicable to structural engineers and all professionals who are interested in protecting their mechanical and electrical equipment from seismic damage.

This online engineering PDH interactive presentation provides a detailed analysis of the factors and events that caused the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. It covers structural and fire safety challenges, investigative methods for identifying the collapse's probable cause, and insights for enhancing building codes and emergency response strategies.

 

This presentation outlines the events leading to the collapse and examines the structural and fire safety challenges encountered. It explains how fire-induced thermal expansion contributed to the building's failure and discusses the implications for fire safety standards and building codes. Additionally, it provides insights into the technical findings from the collapse and their relevance to future building designs, as well as broader lessons for improving emergency response and resilience.

 

This 4 PDH online interactive presentation is designed for engineers, architects, emergency management professionals, and other stakeholders in building safety and disaster preparedness.

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 Maryland. 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 1 PDH online video presentation is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the State of Texas 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 fifteen (15) professional development hours, at least one (1) of which must be relative to the Maryland Laws and Rules, or to the rules of professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.