Professional Development Courses

Learn about wastewater pumping station design; preventing hydraulic problems in pumps, wet wells, and forcemains; and improving station reliability.

Technical professionals learn financial analysis, estimate initial and lifetime costs, and make capital investment decisions.

Understand and manage biological processes and improve wastewater treatment projects and facilities. Understand wastewater microbiology and microorganisms.

Learn the processes, technologies, and regulations to design, manage, and improve wastewater treatment facilities and wastewater treatment projects

Understand how to use instrumentation, control hardware, and SCADA systems to improve water and wastewater processes’ efficiency and reliability.

Address the pressing challenges of aging infrastructure by mastering the principles and practices of effective asset management. This course equips participants with tools and strategies to extend asset lifespans, optimize resource allocation, and ensure long-term sustainability in diverse industries.

Learn about the operating characteristics and design criteria of blower systems in water, wastewater, or industrial systems.

Learn the technologies to effectively remove phosphorus and nitrogen during wastewater treatment and how to retrofit a wastewater plant to remove nutrients.

Learn about sanitary sewer systems, codes, regulations, safety. Explore design flows, system models, hydrolics. Cover sewer system operations, maintenance, repair.

This is a 10-week online course that covers the essentials of modeling wastewater treatment systems. Many in the wastewater field are familiar with various wastewater modeling softwares; however, these softwares cannot provide accurate and reliable results without a solid understanding of the modeling process. This course therefore provides a foundational understanding of the modeling process to ensure your modeling is performed correctly and that the modeling results and accurate, meaningful, and truly useful to you. This course is applicable to wastewater professionals, regardless of what wastewater modeling software they may choose to use. While the course is intended for those who will be performing the modeling work, it is also recommended for professionals who may be overseeing, reviewing, and wanting to understand modeling results. No prior modeling experience is required.