PSPE at Penn State Great Valley

Penn State Great Valley and the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers are proud to continue a partnership providing professional education opportunities.

Symposium
Engineering Lessons Learned
Thursday, June 14
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Penn State Great Valley
30 E. Swedesford Road, Malvern PA 19355

Tuition: Non-Members: $199.00, Members: $149
($50.00 discount for PSPE, ACEC, and Green Building Council members.)
Includes continental breakfast, lunch, session materials, and certificate of attendance.
6 PDH credits earned

Questions? Contact Jennifer Summers, 717-441-6051 or jennifer@wannerassoc.com

Registration will be available soon.

If you would like to register more than one person, each registrant must complete a registration form (link below), and fax all forms to 610-648-3366. In addition, use this form to pay by check or if your employer is to be billed (A Letter of Authorization must accompany your completed registration form for a company billing).

Note: Every 3 registrations from the same company qualify for 1 free registration. To obtain this discount, each registrant must complete a registration form (link below), and all forms must be faxed together to 610-648-3366.

Click here for registration form.

Cancellation Policy: 100% refund for cancellations made on or before June 6.

SCHEDULE

7:30 a.m.	Registration and Coffee
8:15 a.m.	Welcome
8:30 to 10:30 a.m.	Learning from Failures Johann F. Szautner, PE, PLS/Civil & Forensic Engineering Consultant The objective of this session is to integrate a risk management based approach into engineering design and failure avoidance, with the goal to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury and/or economic loss. You will learn failure avoidance by learning to identify and analyze hazards and risks, framework for reliable design, and safety through design.
10:45 to 11:45 a.m.	Failure Investigation for Engineers JamAaron Tanzer, PE/Lehigh Testing Labs This course will focus on the process involved in performing deductive logic-based investigations. Differentiating the likely goals of such investigations (i.e. failure mode, failure mechanism, root cause) and how they influence investigation organization will be discussed. Topics covered will include sample receipt and handling, general process overview from least to most destructive testes, organization of test protocols (including common tests), and running changes to testing based on test results. Special issues concerning litigation-related analyses will be discussed. Examples will be used to illustrate these concepts. Questions will be raised during the course for group discussion.
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Lunch provided
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.	Engineering Lessons to be Learned from Accidents and Claims David Fleisher, PE/Fleisher Forensics Improve your engineering and safety techniques through accidents and claims involving construction buildings and walkway surfaces. Applications of standards and codes will be included in the session.