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1.6 IACET CEUs | Duration: 16 hours
Instructor: David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI
This rigorous 16-hour program provides detailed instruction in fluid engineering for custom pools, spas, and other types of watershapes. Activities includes a detailed project worth 50%, and an online exam accounting for the remaining 50% of the passing score.
Learning outcomes
✔ Define the meaning and scope of advanced hydraulics, hydrology, and fluid dynamics design, including complex gravity-fed and water-in-transit systems.
✔ Detail water-in-transit engineering including vanishing edges, slot-edges, gutters, and water features.
✔ Demonstrate use of the WatershapeAdvisor® series of software worksheets, including surge basin design, gravity and drainage systems, channels, lazy rivers, level-bottom slot channels, and more.
✔ Practice analyzing vanishing edge and slot-edge pool and spa combinations, as a class project.
PREREQUISITE: First complete E2311: Essential Fluid Engineering. You can take this course online, on-demand (16 hours).
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1.6 IACET CEUs | Duration: 16 hours
Instructor: David J. Peterson, P.E., IWI
Electricity rarely wants to engage with water but, in the watershaping industry, it is unavoidable; electrical power is needed to run pumps, heaters, chemistry systems, lights and other equipment. The pool and hot tub industry has volumes of very specific life-critical codes to consider, spread across multiple ever-changing documents. Making sense of it all is a challenge even for licensed electricians who may have wired 1,000 homes but still don't know how to wire a single pool safely. And that's just the "high-voltage" side of things; there is much to talk about on the low-voltage and wireless side of communications, controls, home automation, etc. This program is designed for pool builders, service professionals and licensed electricians needing to improve their watershaping electrical acumen.
Learning outcomes
✔ Explain high-voltage terms, definitions, electrical-science and functionality including single and three-phase systems.
✔ Calculate sizing of feeders, panels, breakers, conductors, conduits, voltage drop and other important design parameters using a series of worksheets.
✔ Appraise proper installation considerations such as conduit and conductor routing developed through hands-on exercises.
✔ Discuss, design and evaluate low-voltage measurement, communications, protocols and controls from simple chemical controllers to complex home automation integration.
1.6 IACET CEUs | Duration: 16 hours (8 hours to be completed online, on-demand, before 8 hours of live lecture in Greensboro)
Instructor: Lea Frederick, IWI
Whether on purpose or not, the use of color has a tremendous impact on design, and ultimately, the user experience. In this essential course, students explore the powerful impact of color theory and how to wield it to distinguish their design work, and inspire emotional reactions from their clients.
Learning outcomes
✔ List the properties of light, vision and optical physics. Define color theory, primary colors, color “DNA”, blends and color mixing.
✔ Discuss the use of color wheels. Explore the concept of color psychology and how impacts mood and ultimately purchasing decisions.
✔ Consider how color can make or break design concepts.
✔ Introduce color psychology, how color can influence purchasing decisions.
