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Instructor: Lennart Anderson
Course Length: 1.5
Purpose and Background
This webinar provides an overview of the emerging digital ecosystem for civil engineering projects and facility operations. It explores conceptual frameworks and discusses real world use cases which helps industry professionals get an understanding of effective implementation and how to measure the values of the mentioned solutions. It explores five technology areas: modeling & visualization, the ecosystem of interconnected technologies, safety technology, instrumentation and sensors, and reality capture such as drone technology. This webinar is an overview in how the emerging technologies such as automation and machine learning will be incorporated within the field of civil engineering. This webinar is designed to lay the foundation and is complemented with specific technology webinars like the "Practical Use of Drones for Diverse Infrastructure Projects".
Primary Discussion Topics
- Overview of digital ecosystem
- Five technology areas
- Real-world use cases
- How automation and machine learning will be incorporated in civil engineering
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Know what digitization will do for your area of expertise
- Identify how it can be used for a competitive advantage
- A clear view of what the values digitization is bringing
- Determine the terminology and its definitions
- Recognize how specifications and standard are changing to respond to the new tools and deliverables
Webinar Benefits
- Learn about emerging digital ecosystem in civil engineering projects
- Gain practical understanding of implementing digitization in the practice
- Recognize value of employing digital workflows
- Gain competitive advantage to win projects
Assessment of Learning Outcomes
Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).
Intended Audience
- Civil engineers
- Project managers
- Maintenance/operations
- Professionals working with civil projects
Webinar Outline
- Introduction and background
- Terminology - the new vocabulary
- History and where we are today
- Conceptual framework
- Standards and specifications in the real world
- The different lenses of usage - case studies
- Operations - MTA bridges and tunnels - bridge inspection
- Planning - Snug Harbor Park
- Design - Power distribution and retrofits MTA BT
- Procurement - scope models - east side access
- Construction - mega project - east side access
- Commissioning - handover to Long Island Railroad
- Focus Functions
- Modeling & visualizations
- Ecosystem of interconnected technologies
- Safety technology
- Instrumentation and sensors
- Reality capture: scanning, photogrammetry and drones
- BIM-GIS solutions
- Visualization and interactive environments - VR/MR/AR
- Future of the profession - machine learning, robotics, IOT
How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion
To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.
How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?
1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]