RE: Use of PDH Center for Online Courses

From: <Geoff>
Date: Tue Nov 29 2005 - 23:12:00 EST

I was thinking of providing some guides on surge analysis as a training module. Is there any point as an engineer from Australia, not registered in any state of the USA? Would this be recognised for PE professional development?

   Geoff

Steve McKenzie <Mechproj@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

   Had never heard of these before, so I googled and wound up at pdhcentre.com.

Under pumping and piping, I saw they had a course on pumping station design for around $250. Reading the synopsis, I found the course was based on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineering Manual EM 1110-2-3105: Mechanical and Electrical Design of Pumping Stations. This is available elsewhere for free, so apart from mention of a multiple choice questionnaire (woohoo) I cant find the added value which justifies the price.

Perhaps someone can put me straight.

Cheers

Steve

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On Nov 28, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:

> Have any members of this forum used or contributed to the on line
> courses offered by PDH Center? Are they worht the effort to purchase
> or to contribute to?

I've used some of the courses for the continuing ed requirements for my PE licenses. I usually try to go to a couple of real seminars and use PDH courses to fill in the couple of extra required hours. By way of disclaimer, I wrote a course for PDH and I've had pretty good responses. A couple of people thought it was too hard, but most of the comments I got were very comforting.
>

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=w7tdoox26OFGVfbybIG40VAQq4BKPpNeIQvZldR7evPADSiAdnwlyK1rVdZow3Y1lvqZBHzTmAf13w">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
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