Professional Engineers and Surveyors

• Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
• Engineering Communications
• Field to Finish Using AutoCAD Civil 3D and Trimble Business Center
• [ NEW! ] Introduction to Wind and Solar Technologies
• Commercial and Municipal Road Design with Civil 3D

Each class qualifies for five professional development hours unless indicated otherwise.

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
As engineers, we have been trained to see everything as a process - but not to see the wastes associated with those processes. During this course you’ll be introduced to lean terminology, commonly used metrics and improvement techniques. We’ll cover tools used to identify and quantify wastes, such as value stream mapping, load balancing and time value charts. We’ll discuss the application of lean in both transactional and manufacturing environments.

Instructor: Lynn Clarke, PE
CRN: 40069
Saturday, March 2
8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee: $89

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Engineering Communications
Sharpen your tools to communicate more clearly. When we write, report or speak, we aren’t always clearly understood because our work is highly technical and advanced. Often, we know our work so well we don’t always see the “outsider” perspective. We’ll examine what it’s like for those outside the field and find strategies to make our work clear to them - without loss of the details that matter most to us. We’ll address writing, speaking and media tools.

Instructor: Ron Graham, PhD
CRN: 40068
Friday, March 15
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Fee: $99 (includes lunch)

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Field to Finish Using AutoCAD Civil 3D and Trimble Business Center
This course will cover the process of gathering field data to the importation into the office and finally the exportation back to the field for stakeout and automated machine grading. We’ll use Civil 3D and Trimble Business Center software. Focus of this presentation will be on the setup of standards in the office, an emphasis on a consistent workflow to maintain those standards and finally an overview of the latest technology being used in today’s land surveying workflow.

Class held at main campus.

Instructor: Andy Parr, PE, PS
CRN: 40076
Friday, April 5
8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Fee: $99 (includes lunch)

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[ NEW! ] Introduction to Wind and Solar Technologies
Learn about the two leading renewable energy technologies: solar and wind. We’ll discuss the concept of energy, where it comes from and how it’s used in a modern society such as the United States. We’ll talk about the basic principles of thermodynamics, leading to a definition of efficiency, the impetus for developing newer, greener technologies. Our time spent on solar will focus on prevailing technologies continually moving toward greater efficiencies. Addressing the wind aspect, we’ll talk about turbine technologies, covering all aspects from generators to rotor materials selection to rotor design. We’ll look at case studies involving solar and wind farms operating in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world.

Class held at Stark State/Timken Wind Bearing Building.

Instructor: James Bothe, PhD
CRN: 40194
Saturday, April 20
8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee: $89

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Commercial and Municipal Road Design with Civil 3D
Here’s your chance to get updated on current design technology and how far we’ve come in the last 20 years in the civil land development industry. We’ll dive into commercial and road design using Civil 3D and walk through the fundamentals of how to set up accurate existing surfaces as a design canvas. Finally, we will work through a few commercial grading designs as well as some mill/fill and road rehabilitation designs utilizing Corridors and Pipe Networks.

Class held at main campus.

Instructor: Andy Parr, PE, PS
CRN: 40077
Saturday, May 11
8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee: $89

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