Building Water Essentials: Certificate Program
Program Overview
The Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program
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Professional Courses
- Semiconductor Fabrication 101
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- Design for Security
- Data Science
- Building Water Essentials
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Product Safety: An Introduction for Effective Engineering Design
- Small Modular and Advanced Reactor (SMR/AR) Technology
- Systems Engineering Processes and Professional Competencies
Building Water Essentials: Certificate Program
The Building Water Essentials: Certificate Program is a self-paced online course that provides actionable knowledge needed to address the effects of the pandemic and other situations that can degrade building water quality. Developed by Purdue University researchers, the course provides a baseline understanding of how building water systems are designed, operate, and can be resolved when problems arise.
Building Water Essentials Learning Objectives:
- Describe the chemical and microbiological contaminants common to building water systems for stagnant and flowing water.
- Explain the factors that control contaminant accumulation in building water systems.
- Recognize water testing methods and limitations.
- Identify remediation practices for removing contaminated water from the systems.
- Recognize how to create and test building water system flushing plans.
- Develop strategies to avoid and remediate water quality problems, using real-building examples, as-built drawings, and other resources.
- Recognize where to find additional resources.
Understanding Water Quality Issues -- Who Can Benefit:
- Public Health Department employees in any role
- Federal, state and local water system and water quality managers and staffs
- Emergency Preparedness personnel
- Facilities managers and technicians, as well as building owners
- Plumbing and water utility engineers
- Scientists
The course is a series of self-paced learning modules that will take approximately 10 hours to complete, with access for up to one year. Each module focuses on a different building water system topic, and live Q&A sessions are built in throughout the course. The modules do not have to be taken concurrently, allowing users to hone in on a topic of interest as needed.