Engineering Inc. - July/August 2007 - I19

Fall On-Demand Courses— Knowledge Whenever You Want It These interactive Web-based courses are archived and available at any time. Just read the description, purchase a course, and work through the content, which is guided by interactive graphics and audio instructions—at your computer and at your convenience. ACEC has partnered with SmartPros, a leading technical online learning vendor, to offer a variety of these courses to ACEC members at discounted prices. For complete descriptions of the course offerings, to register and take a course, visit http://education. smartpros.com/main1/acec_ catalog.asp. All SmartPros online courses carry PDHs as noted below. Business Management Trends Combining statistical information with macro business trends affecting firms, this course presents a timely, realworld perspective to help you understand why the markets act as they do and how to manage these influential forces to your advantage. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Construction Site Safety This course explores the landmark court cases that have shaped engineers’ responsibilities for construction site safety and discusses OSHA’s safety standards from an engineering firm’s point of view. Price: Member–$75 Non-member–$90 PDHs: 3 Creating Added Value If today’s firms are to remain financially healthy, their owners must find ways to add value to their services in order to stem the erosion of profitability. This course presents creative strategies for the engineering consulting business. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Do the Right Thing: Ethical Decision Making for Engineers This course, presented in three separate modules, discusses the importance of and issues inherent in ethics for engineers. It is important for the engineer to develop ethics early and apply ethical standards as constantly as technical standards. Price: (for all three ethics modules): Member–$169 Non-member–$199 PDHs: 3 Facing Recessions The recent economy has produced profits and optimism in the engineering community. However, when the cycle shifts downward, will you be ready? This course explores what a recession looks like and how best to prepare and respond. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Getting Paid Promptly For most firms, getting work hasn’t been a problem, but getting paid for the work is something else! This course explores ways to attack the issue before it becomes a problem and save time, money and the headaches of cash flow problems. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Increasing Production and Profits This course demonstrates how some of the nation’s top A/E firms develop organizations full of high achievers, from top to bottom so you can have a high-performance organization that generates the maximum amount of high-quality work for every hour charged. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Keeping Your Cool When Things Aren’t So Cool Even in the best consulting engineering firms, things go wrong—schedules slip, budgets are exceeded, errors are made. This course will help you stop “putting out fires” and constructively identify the causes of problems and ways to partner with your staff to prevent their recurrence. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Legal Impacts of Technology on Engineering Practice With the ever-changing world of electronics comes a whole new set of liability, licensure, ethical and copyright issues. This course discusses new technology, how it affects engineers and how you can prepare for electronic practice by minimizing risk. Price: Member–$25 Non-member–$30 PDHs: 1 Managing Relationships Do you know what your clients want you to be in five years? Successful firms have learned to listen effectively to their clients and focus on building and maintaining client relationships. This course highlights examples of true consultant/ client collaborations. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions offer many firms an opportunity to make a quantum leap into a new service or a new geographic market. This course outlines the potential positives and negatives to these ventures and the key issues that must be addressed to increase the likelihood of success. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 2.5 Preemptive Marketing This course examines several case studies of the effective use of long-term, preemptive, added-value marketing and presents a step-by-step plan to use in your firm. Price: Member–$37.50 Non-member–$45 PDHs: 1.5 Protecting Your Engineering License and Your Wallet Engineering codes have become extremely complex. Learn the intricacies of civil codes and state regulations, how to protect yourself, and what happens if you are accused of a violation. Price: Member–$25 Non-member–$30 PDHs: 1 Recruiting Stars Different people are motivated by different things. This course outlines a recruiting process that illustrates how to motivate star performers to join your firm and allows you to practice this process by attempting to recruit case study engineers. Course modules include: Define Position, Customize Process, Promote Firm, Promote Fit, Promote Community, and Case Study Application. Price: Member–$200 Non-member–$230 PDHs: 4 Fall seMester 2007 I-19

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Engineering Inc. - July/August 2007

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