Professional Development Offerings

This course will give you hands-on workshop experience applying HEC-RAS to real-world problems.

Get current, hands-on information to understand and use the Wisconsin Commercial Building Code (WCBC). Presented by UW–Madison and the State of Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS), this annual event is a valuable opportunity to learn the latest updates. Discover best practices to make your plan submittal process a success.

Technical teams present many challenges for engineering managers. Team leaders must often give up some of their technical authority to focus on strategic management, operational planning and human resource management. They also need solid communications skills and know how to represent the team across the organization and at a high level. In this hands-on course, you will learn strategic and operational planning tools to set goals, establish objectives and build defensible budgets from an instructor who has actually “walked the talk” of this course with his own experiences.

Get practical, design-oriented knowledge of the geotechnical and structural design and construction of safe and economical foundations.

Many management courses, including our own course: Managing Technical Teams, teach you how to deal with direct and indirect reports. To be successful, however, you also need to manage (or strongly influence) the behavior of those who are at your level or higher. But they may not understand your needs or may be indifferent to them. In this course, you will learn how to make yourself heard when you do not have direct authority, and how to change others’ behavior to make them reliable partners in your programs and projects.

This course will show you how to evaluate the condition of your concrete and how to protect your existing concrete with the right repair materials and techniques. You’ll come away with specific repair methods for structural concrete, floor slabs, and slabs on grade, along with strategies for reinforcing and post-tensioning.

This course provides practical training through hands-on sessions that will teach you how to test backflow prevention assemblies and identify and resolve problems with backflow prevention assemblies. Backflow theory; selection of backflow prevention methods, devices and assemblies for specific applications; and state and local agency rules and regulations will also be discussed. Participation in this course and successful completion of the hands-on and written examinations fulfill the training requirements for registration as a Cross-Connection Control Tester in Wisconsin and for certification in several other states.

Ensure that your property maintenance and rental inspection programs are protecting the health and safety of the residents in your community. Learn key field inspection points to preserve the integrity of the housing stock, including residential construction, building systems, and health requirements. You will also learn practical ways to organize and effectively manage the programs in your office.