Archive for the 'Continuing Education' Category

Design Engineering Event

Friday, July 11th, 2008

The Design Engineering show is a feature of National Manufacturing Week.
This design engineering event provides an opportunity to connect you with the systems, products, and solutions for your entire manufacturing enterprise.
At National Manufacturing Week 2008, you can meet more than 2,000 suppliers delivering the products and services you need to stay at the forefront in [...]

Free Trade Publications and White Papers

Monday, June 9th, 2008

TradePub.com provides online subscription services provider for B2B magazine publishers. And now TradePub.com goes beyond magazines, providing a comprehensive collection of content for professionals in over 33 industry verticals, with extensive reach through 1000’s of B2B partner sites worldwide.
While subscriptions to all the trade publications on the TradePub.com web sites are free ( to professionals [...]

IEC Continuing Education

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) has as its goal to help academia and industry to work together to bring the highest quality and most innovative forms of continuing education to the industry. Its initial focus was the electronics industry, however today it has broadened its scope to include the entire information industry. The IEC’s On-Line education [...]

Building Science Corporation

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Many building owners and contractors are giving increased attention to the maintenance and upkeep of their facilities due to moisture related problems.  This is often because various design components did not adequately address the climatic conditions of the area.  Some of the factors that contribute to the problems include HVAC and dehumidification systems, vapor barriers, [...]

NEC Requirements for Generators webcast

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I attended the “NEC Requirements for Generators” webcast on Thursday (12/6/2007) hosted by CSE magazine and sponsored by Generac.  The presentation gave an overview of applicable codes and standards, explained that generator cabling is defined as a “feeder” and not a “service”, and provided some guidelines for generator sizing and start-up times.  Disconnect and grounding requirements were [...]

Thoughts on licensure

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

It’s worth taking a look at a three-part article written by Alfred R. Pagan, P.E., P.L.S. published in CE News magazine.  He is providing his thoughts on the eight questions raised in the June 2007 issue of the National Society of Professional Engineers’ (NSPE) PE: The Magazine for Professional Engineers  article “The future of professional [...]