Professional Development News for Engineers Surveyors Architects at PDHonline.org

PDH Center recently became an approved continuing education provider in the state of New York. Professional engineers and land surveyors that are registered in NY State need to have a minimum of 18 hours (16 hours for LS) of continuing education through live courses for their license renewal. We offer Board approved web-based live courses so that our users can meet the live course requirements in the most efficient and cost-effective way. For course offering and schedule, please check the "Live-Online Courses" category in our course library. For the balance of the continuing education requirement in a renewal cycle, NY PE and LS may take up to 18 hours (8 hours for LS) of our online courses. We have more than 400 NY Board pre-approved online courses for you to choose from. When it comes to Continuing Education for NY PE and LS, PDH Center has it all.

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PDH Center Maintains Approved Provider Status

To ensure that PDH credits earned at PDH Center are acceptable to the state licensing boards, we have worked tirelessly to obtain and maintain our approved provider status in those states that have a pre-approval program. PDH Center is currently an approved continuing education provider by all the PE boards and by 90 percent of the PLS boards that require pre-approval.

For all other states that require mandatory continuing education, but do not pre-approve any continuing education provider or activity, our courses are acceptable because they comply with the Continuing Professional Competency Guidelines published by National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). We have an excellent track record in that no PDH credit earned at PDH Center has ever been rejected by any state board in the 6 years of our existence.

To meet the growing demand of our broad user base, PDH Center has expanded its course library to 30 categories that cover all major disciplines in the fields of engineering, land surveying, architecture and management. The newly added categories are Pharmaceutical & Biotech Engineering, Pumps, Valves & Piping Systems, Legal Issues & Risk Management, Engineering & Environmental Geology, Human Resources & Leadership, and Flood, Hydrology & Hydraulics. The PDHonline course library offers a wide variety of course subjects and consists of more than 700 high quality online courses authored by more than 120 subject experts. The majority of our courses are free for previewing and downloading. We want to make sure that our users know exactly what they get before purchase and that they are satisfied with the courses and our service. For a free preview of the courses, please visit our course library at www.PDHcenter.com or www.PDHonline.org.

For registered architects, we now have 66 AIA/CES Registered Courses. Many of them qualify for Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) credits. For land surveyors registered in Florida, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee, we have many more courses that are pre-approved in those states. If you have not visited us for a while, please stop by and check out those new offerings.

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PDH Center Enhances User-Instructor Interactions and Communications

In order to meet our high standard for course quality and user satisfaction, PDH Center has expanded the user-instructor interaction/communication capacities. Now, our instructors can view the users' rating on the course content and the quiz online in real time. They can also communicate with users directly online through our user-feedback system. Many of you have sent us compliments and encouragement while others have made constructive comments that have led to course upgrades and revisions. We appreciate your feedback, for it is always our goal to provide the best online continuing education products and services for our valued customers. We look forward to serving your continuing education needs in the years to come.

Starting 2005, Illinois, Maine, Texas and New York joined the growing list of states that require PDH credits for professional license renewal. Specifically, professional engineers in the state of Illinois will need 30 PDHs for their biennial renewal; Texas PEs need 15 PDHs for their annual renewal; Maine PEs need 30 PDHs for their biennial renewal; and NY PEs need 36 PDHs for their triennial renewal. For professional land surveyors, Illinois requires 20 PDHs for biennial renewal and New York requires 24 PDHs for triennial renewal. For more details of continuing education requirements and renewal deadlines, please contact the respective state board.

PDH Center has a fast growing and diversified course provider team, which features more than 120 highly qualified and motivated professionals. More and more experts have joined us to share their wealth of knowledge and expertise with our valued users. We would like to extend our warm welcome to the following industry experts who have recently become PDHonline Course Providers:

Richard A. Haas, PE - Entrepreneur Engineer
Richard W. Fruge, PE - Electrical Engineer
Neil Hicks, PE - Mechanical Engineer
James J. Newton, PE, DEE - Environmental Engineer
Tim Blackburn, PE - Pharmaceutical Engineer
Thomas D. Strong, PLS - Land Surveyor
Michael A. White, PE - Civil Engineer
Danny R. Graves, PE - Electrical Engineering
Emily A. Sterrett, Ph.D. - Management Consultant
Ketan Shah, PE, CCNA - Electrical Engineer
Plastic Pipe and Fittings Association

If you are interested in joining us as a PDHonline course provider, please email your resume and a list of potential course topics to us at info@PDHcenter.com. We offer generous revenue sharing (30%) to all of our course providers. You can either provide the entire lecture notes or utilize the technical resources already available on the Internet. Our provider team has been and will continue to be the cornerstone for our successful operation and future growth, and we would like to have you on board.

As the holiday season approaches, we would like to say a big "Thank You" for your continuing support and business in the past year. We wish you all a happy and prosperous 2006!