Live Seminars

15 PDH One-Day Seminar (Texas, includes 1 PDH in Ethics) $349.00

7 PDH of live seminar (including 1 PDH Ethics) +
8 PDH CD Home seminar of Residential structural Damage Inspection ……$349.00

You will receive your 15 PDH certificate at the end of the day

8 PDH Home Seminar CD Quiz

Scheduled & Future Live Seminars:

Engineering Disasters and Forensic Engineering + Engineering Marvels

Seminar Summary:

The class is a combination of Forensic Engineering, some of the engineering big mistakes and disasters in the past and some of today's engineering marvels. The class starts with the fundamentals of Forensic Engineering and investigating the site of the accidents. We start the class with some basic cases and move up to more difficult cases. The class reviews some of the biggest engineering accidents happened during the last 40 years. The accidents range from new untested innovative designs to small mistakes in engineering that resulted in a catastrophic failures and loss of life. This is the only course of its kind in the country. The class covers a wide range of disciplines so every engineer can benefit from learning from other disciplines. The class tries to take engineers where they would not have gone before and have a tour of other disciplines and their challenges. The instructor discuss and covers engineering disasters and catastrophes in construction, ships, offshore platforms, vehicle design, bridge design, gas pipeline, industrial accidents and plant explosions. Every effort has been made to make this the most informative and entertaining engineering seminar.

Learning Objectives:

The main objective of the course is for engineers to learn from previous engineering mistakes made either in their own field or others and take a note, while being entertained with the coolest engineering animation and video clips of the accident. The class also shows how the engineers and scientists reconstructed the accident after the event and worked backward to identify the cause of the accident.

The course promotes engineering safety at work place and public. The class also shows how to do a basic engineering accident investigation or root cause failure analysis in order to find out what caused the accident to begin with.

The class starts with fundamentals of engineering accident investigation and Forensic Engineering. The class starts with small cases in different fields and moves up to high profile accidents in the country and around the world.

All of the high profile cases are in the form of video presentation, engineering animation (some cases) and discussion. The cases have been personally selected among hundreds of other cases for the past 10 years. We cover engineering disasters and catastrophes in construction, ships, offshore platforms, vehicle design, bridge design, gas pipeline, industrial accidents and petrochemical plant explosions.

We also have a 1 PDH video presentation of ethics. After a full day of discussing engineering accidents we always like to finish the seminar on the high note, with one of the marvels of engineering around the world.

Depending on the PDH requirements of the State, in some states with self study credits (like Texas) we will have a one-day seminar and others with no self study credits (like Louisiana), we offer a two-day seminar.

For the 15 PDH Live seminar + CD combo. You will receive 7 PDH of live seminar + 8 PDH CD (your own) which you will take home with you after the seminar. The 8 PDH CD has been prepared as a field trip for engineers in home structural damage inspection and is a complement to the 2-3 hours of forensic engineering workshop which you receive at the beginning of the live seminar. The 8 PDH home seminar CD is in the form of power point presentation. Your computer does not need to have power point presentation; we have included everything for you. The CD includes a 40 page power point presentation as a” Home Buyer’s Guide for Foundation Evaluation” + 590 slides of home structural damage inspection. The CD is unmatched with any course out there, as we are the only company who shows how to do field work. Not only it is beneficial to engineers who do Hurricane and home damage works, it is also beneficial to engineers who are home owners or will be home owners in future. As they will learn what can cause damage to their home, how to inspect or look for it and what is its cause and origin. The course covers variety of structures, from a medium

3 bd/2 bth house to million dollar mansions in Florida damaged by hurricanes.

"Engineering Catastrophes, Disasters and Forensic Engineering"
 (The topics of the live seminar is different from the DVDs)  

John Ehrman

Frank G. Hill

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