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In Engineering The Panama Canal, you'll learn ...
- Lessons learned from the Panama Canal project that you can apply to your professional practice
- Managing the non-engineering social, environmental, and personnel management, in addition to engineering, on a project
- The value of recognizing changing conditions during a project and tips for managing them
- How to navigate the perils of working in a region where local knowledge is vital
Overview
Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 56 pages
Sometimes experience is the best teacher. Learning from the challenges and errors of others is much less painful than learning these lessons on your own.
The Panama Canal lessons for learning is a historical recount of the project and the many engineers that worked on the project.
Professional Engineers will gain much knowledge in managing large projects with political influences heavily involved in its creation and oversight. Imagine if your main boss today were Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or Ronald Reagan. The Chief Engineers on the Panama Canal had to contend with a non-engineering boss and the fact that a prior team had tried and failed on the same project.
If you enjoy a good read and want to learn about the engineers that came before you, this training module will intrigue you. We will discover what life was like prior to Professional Licensing, true distinction in disciplines of engineering, adverse conditions, and influences far reaching beyond the field of engineering that had to be overcome. Come on this journey with me.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Political influences within public works projects
- How to utilize and deal with what cards you are dealt and make the best with what you are given
- Solving issues on the run
- The value of project planning
- The use of steam-powered and rail-driven equipment in a harsh environment
- Why Professional Engineers' protection of people, the environment, and the community are so important to a successful project
- The Professional Engineers' role within society
- How to keep your engineering work within your own area of expertise and allow others to do the same
- Much more…
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 4 PDH
Length: 56 pages
