Ethics and Floodwater Engineering Hour 4 Voice (Online)

Description

Narrated voice-over online PDH course. This 1-hour PE PDH continuing education course in engineering ethics and floodwater engineering is intended to encourage the engineer to consider the big-picture result of decisions using real-world examples from a licensed Professional Engineer with extensive experience in Floodwater Engineering. This PE CEU course is hour 4 of a 4-hour series of courses. This online PDH course includes narrated audio. The user must have power point installed to use this course.

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In his 31-year career with the US Army Corps of Engineers the author worked in many phases of floodwater engineering including:  hydrology, hydraulics, flood insurance studies, project studies, planning flood control systems, structural design, construction, inspections of completed flood control works, Total Quality Management website development, emergency response to natural disasters, and mobilization planning and civil defense.   He has also worked in atmospheric physics labs, at a missile test tract, residential construction, road construction, and on a highway survey crew.

This education and experience is used to frame the PDH training course from the perspective of engineering ethics.  Numerous real-world examples are given and discussed.

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Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this PDH training course, the student will have read and evaluated:

• Considerations for the long-term implications of design decisions beyond code requirements
• Considerations and implications when forced to work with “soft data” that require evaluating many possible options
• Use of legal requirements and best technology as tools
• Consideration of the use of ethics as a third decision making tool
• Review many examples of using engineering ethics in real-world situations to make engineering decisions