Professional Development Offerings

Phosphorous and nitrogen present significant issues for today’s wastewater treatment engineers, managers, and regulators. With new and revised regulations, many treatment plants need to further reduce the discharge of effluent nutrients to surface waters to limit the growth of algae and other aquatic vegetation. Learn the principles and the latest technologies to help manage nutrients in your own system and projects.

Moving into a management role can be challenging, especially for those who have spent years completing technical work without direct reports or those who are new to the workforce.  In this course, you'll develop the skills and knowledge to succeed as a manager through practical discussions of management and leadership fundamentals and tools that will aid in your transition. Classroom exercises along with a tactical action plan will allow you to immediately make a positive impact.

Solidify your understanding of the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) structural provisions and referenced standards from ASCE, AISC, and ACI, and confidently apply these provisions during structural design and plan review. This course will examine wind and seismic loads, steel and aluminum, concrete, masonry, foundations, wood design, and special inspections.

Clean and safe drinking water is one of the most important assets in any city or community. This course will provide you with a good working knowledge of current water regulations, technical principles, recent technology developments, and case study examples so you can improve your organization’s water treatment facilities, operations, and future projects.

To achieve good outcomes in the workplace, we need all stakeholders to have open, clear and honest conversations with their team, bosses, peers and customers. Often conversations go wrong through misunderstandings and perceptions of ulterior motives. People are often aware that their conversations are not achieving the results they want but do not have any specific tools to improve them.

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.

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.

Wastewater treatment plants depend heavily on the work of microorganisms. This course will help you understand and manage biological processes and improve your wastewater treatment projects and facilities. The course is presented by nationally known microbiologists and engineers, and includes the textbook: "Wastewater Biology–The Microlife."