Continuing Education News for Engineers Surveyors Architects at PDHonline.org

The fast growing PDH Center Course Library has reached yet another major milestone, 1000 online courses. We are dedicated to provide the professional engineers, architects and land surveyors with the largest and most versatile collection of quality online continuing education courses. The expanded course library provides extensive coverage of course subjects in all major engineering, and surveying disciplines, board laws & rules, ethics, and business and project management.

One of the unique features at PDH Center is that course contents can be previewed or downloaded free of charge. This feature allows our valued users to peruse the course content prior to purchasing the course. For complete listing of the PDH courses, please visit our Course Library at http://www.PDHcenter.com.

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Good News for PLS in VT, TX and NJ

PDH Center has recently become an approved continuing education course provider for professional land surveyors in the states of Vermont, Texas and New Jersey. Our pre-approved courses are listed for each respective state under the category of "Surveying and Mapping" in our course library. We also offer pre-approved courses for professional land surveyors in the states of New York, Florida, Missouri and Tennessee. Our courses are acceptable in all other states that do not have pre-approval programs.

Many States have mandatory requirements of CE credits on ethics for each renewal cycle. To help our users to meet the requirements, PDH Center offers 28 courses in the area of board laws, rules and ethics. Our courses cover a variety of subjects and PDH credits:

The above courses are listed under the Category "Board Laws & Rules, Ethics and ADA" in our Course Library.

PDH Center is proud to have over 150 industry experts as our course providers. The high caliber of our courses directly reflects the expertise and dedication of our providers. Today, we would like to introduce you to Mr. John Poullain, one of our prolific course providers who has made significant contributions to our course library. Having worked in both public and private sectors, Mr. Poullain brings to PDH Center over 35 years of experience in various fields of civil engineering. His expertise includes state and county road design, road relocation, recreation site design, levees and interior storm drainage design, earth dam and military airfield construction, river channel improvements and alterations, and wildlife enhancement projects. He is also an expert in field investigations, environmental site assessments and remediation reports for hazardous waste removal sites and underground storage tank (UST) removal sites. Mr. Poullain is the author for 36 PDH Courses, primarily in the field of Civil and Environmental Engineering. You can find his course offerings in the "Providers" section through the top menu bar of our website.

PDH Center is built on the expertise of our course providers. If you are interested in becoming a PDH Course Provider, please contact us at info@PDHcenter.com. We offer a generous 30% revenue sharing and an exciting growth opportunity.

Today's Featured PDH Course is L120 "Construction Layout". This popular online course is authored by Mr. Jonathan Terry, PLS, a 40-year veteran licensed in 8 states. This soup-to-nuts, condensed course in Construction Layout is intended to help the land surveyor, party chief, engineer, construction manager, construction layout contractor, general contractor, developer, architect, and specification writer to broaden their understanding and increase their performance, as it shares a thorough overview of the construction layout business. Summarized from decades of diverse experience come practical horse-sense tips, specific procedures, trade secrets and thorough instruction of a complex specialty presented in a methodical yet casual way intended to make learning fun. True stories and real-life experiences increase reader interest and promote retention of taught principles. The me-to-you approach in the course presentation simulates a live-seminar atmosphere and decreases the sense of distance-learning. Topics covered include fee negotiation, contract issues and considerations, payment schedules, bidding secrets, liability exposure - real and imagined, record keeping, documentation, work orders, proposal writing, personal relationships, business relationships, team functions, safety, ethics, establishment and preservation of control points, layout techniques, documentation, pitfalls to avoid, checking and redundancy, equipment selection, care and adjustment, and more. At the end of this course, you'll feel as if you've lived through a typical project start-to-finish, survived to tell about it and are ready to tackle another.

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As the holiday season approaches, we would like to say a big "thank you" for your patronage in the past year. At PDH Center, we are committed to provide the best online continuing education product and service to our valued customers.