ITRE Training Course Offerings

ArcGIS, Introduction

Cost: $725, 18 PDH Credits
Dates:

October 14-16, 2008
December 9-11, 2008
February 10-12, 2009
April 14-16, 2009
June 16-18, 2009

ArcGIS, Intermediate

Cost: $550, 12 PDH Credits
Dates:

September 16-17, 2008
November 11-12, 2008
January 13-14, 2009
March 10-11, 2009
May 12-13, 2009

This two-day course is designed to provide users with an advanced understanding of how to use the ArcGIS suite of applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog and Arc-Toolbox. Topics will include, but are not limited to: advanced spatial analysis and geoprocessing operations, Model Builder, editing tools, database design, and an introduction to the customization environment VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). This course utilizes a case study-based approach, which allows the participants to understand and apply the functionality of ArcGIS in a real-world environment with applicable data, illustrating its use as an effective decision making tool. This class serves as an intermediate course for GIS users with practical experience using the software and is developed using the ArcView license of ArcGIS. It is recommended that participants have taken Introduction to ArcGIS or have equivalent experience with ArcGIS.

ArcGIS - Working with the Geodatabase

Cost: $275, 6 PDH Credits
Dates:

September 18, 2008
November 13, 2008
January 15, 2009
March 12, 2009
May 14, 2009

This one-day course is designed to introduce students to the ESRI geodatabase environment. Topics will include, but are not limited to: migrating data into a geodatabase, managing and editing vector and raster data, building and maintaining topology, creation of subtypes, attribute domains and relationship classes, and geodatabase sharing. This class serves as an intermediate/advanced course for GIS users with practical experience using the software and is developed using the ArcInfo (or ArcEditor) license of ArcGIS. It is recommended that participants have taken to ArcGIS or have equivalent experience with ArcGIS.

GIS Training - Customized

Dates:
Call the GIS Program today for more information and a cost estimate.

• Using GIS data that your organization works with everyday
• Custom-defined topics for training
• Training on-site at your organization's office
• Individualized instruction

Integrating Census Data with GIS

Cost $200
Dates:

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

This one-day workshop will teach students how to collect and process Census data in ArcGIS. Students will download demographic data from the US Census Bureau (SF1-SF3) and Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP) and integrate the data into existing Census geography. Once downloaded, students will learn how to analyze, manipulate, and visualize the data.

Integrating GPS and GIS

Cost $550, 12 PDH Credits
Dates:

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

This two-day course will teach students how to collect and process GPS data effectively with industry leading equipment and software (including hand-held and backpack units). Students will acquire the knowledge and confidence needed to complete a GIS data capture project from start to finish. Data will be collected on site. Students will learn the basic fundamentals of ArcPad and ArcGIS software.

Fundamental Engineering Principles (FEP)

Class for NCDOT employees.
For dates, locations, REGISTRATION, and complete information visit: www.itre.ncsu.edu/HWY/education/NCDOT/FEP.html

ITRE developed this 10-course program for NCDOT employees in 1991-1992. NCDOT employees progress through up to four courses to complete a module in one of the fundamental areas of civil engineering: geotechnical engineering, highway design, hydraulics, or structural design. There is also a mathematics module that is a prerequisite for all other courses.

Fundamentals of Engineering Review (FE)

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

Highway Engineering Concepts (HEC)

Course for NCDOT employees - sign up through your training coordinator, not directly through ITRE.

For complete information, schedule, and REGISTRATION information, visit: www.itre.ncsu.edu/HWY/education/NCDOT/HEC.html

In February of 1985 the NCDOT Division of Highways (NCDOH) asked ITRE to develop a course covering engineering concepts as applied to highway and bridge analysis and design. The material covered is similar to what is taught during the third and fourth years of a BSCE degree. For more details visit the HEC section of the Web site.

Professional Engineering Review (PE)

Cost: The PE Night Review course fee is $580. Friday/Saturday course fee is $685.
$100.00 non-refundable deposit, seats filled in the order that registration forms are received.

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

Advanced Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), ARS
Dates:

September 11, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This workshop builds on the Intermediate Work Zone Safety course and covers traffic control plan reading and development, positive protection, work zone capacity, night work, and inspection. Basic Work Zone Safety Training and Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training are prerequisites for this course.

Asphalt Pavement Maintenance

$99.00 per person, 1 day, 6 PDH, lunch provided, RS
Dates:

October 13, 2008 (Rocky Mount)

This workshop covers pavement evaluation, asphalt mix materials, hot plant mix production and pavement construction
methods, routing pavement maintenance techniques, and pothole patching.

Asphalt Roller Operator Training

$125.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided
Dates:

October 17, 2008 (Raleigh)

This entry level workshop covers machine safety, walk-around and function identification, using the related unit operators
manual, unit service and maintenance, and hands-on operation. This workshop is designed for those employees who are new hires or who have used an asphalt roller less than six months. Please wear work clothes; the afternoon will be spent in the field.

Backhoe Operator Training

$125.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided

Dates:

November 14, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This entry level workshop covers machine safety, walk-around and function identification, using the related unit operators manual, unit service and maintenance, and hands-on operation. This workshop is designed for those employees who are new hires or who have used a backhoe less than six months. Please wear work clothes; the afternoon will be spent in the field.

Basic Drainage/Roadway Drainage Maintenance

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), RS
Dates:

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

There are three things you need to have a good road: drainage, drainage, and drainage. This program covers drainage principles, drainage policy, ditches, pipes, and other drainage features, including installation maintenance and construction of drainage components.

Basic Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), RS
Dates:

September 9, 2008 (Raleigh)

This workshop teaches the basics of work zone traffic control. The course covers short-term operations (no longer than one work shift) and focuses on daytime activities. This course must be completed before taking Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training and Advanced Work Zone Safety Training.

Concrete What, When and How

$150.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided (7 PDH) RS

Dates:

October 10, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This class features the basics of concrete installation from the composition of concrete to an actual student hands on session demonstrating placing and finishing techniques. This course is geared to anyone interested in improving concrete skills and will provide students with a general knowledge of concrete.

Confined Space Entry and Lockout/Tagout

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$125.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided (7 PDH)

Dates:

December 3, 2008 (Raleigh)

This workshop is a natural follow up to the Trenching Competent Person workshop. It is a must for any field supervisor who has crews working in confined spaces, such as: manholes, catch basins, meter vaults, and excavations deeper than four feet.

Construction Mathematics for Transportation Workers

$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided (6 PDH) RS

Dates:

November 3, 2008 (Raleigh)

This class will cover very practical areas for those who need to read plans, order and solve problems dealing with materials and supplies.

Reading blueprints- discussion: examples (plans can vary-one page or 500 pages); sample plans; orient plans (north arrow, vicinity map, or other clarifying features); scale.
Measurements using scale- discussion: Work examples from sample plans.
Calculating area- discussion: work examples from sample plans.
Materials factoring - discussion: asphalt - discussion, conversion of area to weight (tons); concrete - discussion, Conversion to area to volume (cubic yards); Stone - discussion, Conversion of area to weight (tons).
Sample problems - Asphalt, Concrete,Stone
Estimate areas for odd shapes- for example circles and triangles

Flagging Instructor Training

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$125.00 per person, 1 1/2 days, lunch provided on day 1, (12 PDH), ARS
Dates:

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

This workshop teaches participants the basics of flagging operations and then instructs them how to teach their own personnel these concepts.

Flagger Training

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$65.00 per person, 1/2 day, RS
Dates:

September 12, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This workshop is designed to train participants to be effective flaggers by teaching the basics of flagging operations and procedures.

Intermediate Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), RS

Dates:

September 10, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This workshop builds on the information covered in the Basic Work Zone Safety course, with particular emphasis paid to multi-lane urban streets. Multi-lane intersection work zones, detours, and mobile operations are covered in detail. Basic Work Zone Safety Training is a prerequisite for this course. Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training must be completed before taking Advanced Work Zone Safety Training.

Maintenance and Repair of Utility Cuts

$99.00 per person, 1 day, 6 PDH, lunch provided, RS

Dates:

October 15, 2008 (Rocky Mount)

This workshop expands on the discussion of utility cut repairs presented in the Asphalt Pavement Maintenance workshop and includes an in-depth review of the use of flowable fill concrete for utility cut maintenance and repair.

Managing Conflict with the Public and Employees

$99.00 per person, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., lunch provided, RS
Dates:

September 18, 2008 (Raleigh)

This class will focus on three primary topics: conflict styles, strategies for de-escalating conflict, and steps for negotiating a mutually beneficial resolution to conflict. Participants will have the opportunity to practice conflict management strategies in role play situations.

Snow and Ice Control

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$125.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (6 PDH), RS

Dates:

October 21, 2008 (Raleigh)
October 22, 2008 (Winston-Salem)

In this workshop, participants will learn snow and ice control procedures, properties of snow and ice and appropriate treatments, common deicing chemicals and alternative materials, winter storm preparation, and storm removal equipment and operations.

Stormwater Hydrology & Drainage Design

$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, ARS

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED

The workshop is an introduction to stormwater analysis. This workshop is targeted for municipal employees with limited technical training, and will be taught with an emphasis on nomographs, graphical solutions, and "common-sense" engineering. Occasionally we'll use a calculator too. you will learn what a "design storm" means. You'll also learn how to estimate peak flows and determine if a pipe is "big enough" along with other useful hydrologic and hydraulic tools. A word of warning - after this workshop, you'll be driving around in downpours looking for hydraulic jumps!

Transit Technical Certificate Program

For more information visit: www.itre.ncsu.edu/PTG/education/Certificate.html

Public Transportation Group developed the Transit Technical Certificate Program to assist transit operators in implementing technology. This program provides training in software use, technical processes and procedures, and job-specific skills. Various training courses are offered throughout the year. ITRE's Transit Technical Certificate Program offers a comprehensive, technical curriculum to transit operators. The program consists of 8-9 required core courses, one elective course, and a capstone project. The core courses vary slightly for persons working in each of the following service types: rural, urban demand-responsive, and urban fixed-route. Course topics include: database concepts, GIS applications, and fixed-route analysis systems (in-house application). Program participants are required to choose one elective offered through ITRE or at another site of their choice. Each student progresses through the courses toward the final step: a capstone project customized specifically for each student.

Course calendars will be produced on a semiannual schedule. It will take a minimum of 1 year to 18 months for an individual to complete this program.

Transportation Leadership Development Program

For application and more information visit: www.itre.ncsu.edu/PTG/education/TLDP.html

PTG has partnered with TEAM, Inc. to provide a dynamic leadership program designed to give transportation professionals an opportunity to significantly improve their decision-making and leadership skills. It provides a framework for each participant to shape his or her own unique leadership style. As the implementors of technology in North Carolina, matching skill sets to the technology has become a focus of the Transportation Computer Lab. PTG has established a Transit Technical Certificate Program to move technical training courses further into transit-specific software applications, technical processes, procedures training, and job-specific technical skills training. The Public Transportation Group offers various training courses throughout the year.

Using Your Data

DATES: TO BE ANNOUNCED
Free

Transportation Information Management System (TIMS)

These classes are for TIMS.NT sites only. The class will be one day, with the first day filling up first and the second day will be held ONLY if there is an overflow from the first day.

For complete information and REGISTRATION visit: www.ncbussafety.org/TIMS.html

TIMS is a project of the Department of Public Instruction and is implemented through NCSU Institute for Transportation Research and Education - Pupil Transportation Program, Raleigh NC and UNC-Charlotte Urban Institute - Technical Services. The TIMS Program consists of the following: Student Module, Attendance Boundary, Street Network, Optimization, Bus Run Assignment, Bus Route Reports.

Basic Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), RS
Dates:

September 9, 2008 (Raleigh) - CLASS IS FULL

This workshop teaches the basics of work zone traffic control. The course covers short-term operations (no longer than one work shift) and focuses on daytime activities. This course must be completed before taking Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training and Advanced Work Zone Safety Training.

Intermediate Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), RS
Dates:

September 10, 2008 (Raleigh)

This workshop builds on the information covered in the Basic Work Zone Safety course, with particular emphasis paid to multi-lane urban streets. Multi-lane intersection work zones, detours, and mobile operations are covered in detail. Basic Work Zone Safety Training is a prerequisite for this course. Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training must be completed before taking Advanced Work Zone Safety Training.

Advanced Work Zone Safety

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$99.00 per person, 1 day, lunch provided, (7 PDH), ARS
Dates:

September 11, 2008 (Raleigh)

This workshop builds on the Intermediate Work Zone Safety course and covers traffic control plan reading and development, positive protection, work zone capacity, night work, and inspection. Basic Work Zone Safety Training and Intermediate Work Zone Safety Training are prerequisites for this course.

Flagger Training

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