Upcoming Trainings

Could this meeting have been an email? In this webinar we’ll talk about how to plan a meeting, run a meeting, and follow up after a meeting to make it effective and efficient. We’ll also talk about how to increase participation during your meetings, whether they are online or in-person. We’ll talk about how make meeting more productive whether you’re the organizer or an attendee.

An interactive webinar about working in cold weather. Topics of discussion will be recognizing the early signs of cold injuries, identifying factors that may impact our body’s reaction to cold weather, and tips for staying comfortable in cold environments.

Have your internal trainings gotten a bit stale? Do you dread teaching new hires how to operate equipment or submit an expense report? We’ll talk about how to make your trainings engaging and effective and offer practical tips you can use right away. You’ll learn how to plan and prepare for training sessions, as well as what to do after training is over to help people retain what they’ve learned.

Sound, ethical behavior is the cornerstone of the engineering profession. Engineering requires honesty and impartiality toward the work we do to protect public health, safety, and welfare. This webinar is designed to meet the ethical training requirements of the Michigan PE while reminding us all of the importance in making clear ethical decisions during our daily activities.

This webinar will review the process of updating data for the templates from Roadsoft and MiBridge, will step through the process of completing updated graphs and tables for these plans, and will demonstrate generation of an updated compliance plan. This training will also illustrate techniques and tools in Microsoft Word that can be used to speed up the update review and editing process.

This seminar is intended for any owner agency or their authorized representatives who are responsible for either the quality control, quality assurance, or the corresponding acceptance of any construction material item on MDOT Let contracts.

People skills can be taught! They might come easier to some people, but just like any other skill, they can improve with practice. This webinar will discuss how people skills can help you connect with others and how that connection can improve your communication. We’ll talk about how to identify your strengths and weaknesses and how to improve your skills.

Could this meeting have been an email? In this webinar we’ll talk about how to plan a meeting, run a meeting, and follow up after a meeting to make it effective and efficient. We’ll also talk about how to increase participation during your meetings, whether they are online or in-person. We’ll talk about how make meeting more productive whether you’re the organizer or an attendee.

Join us for an in-depth webinar on how to best utilize Thawcaster as another tool for deciding when to impose or remove spring load restrictions.

An overview about typical asphalt pavement sections, what information you need before you do an asphalt pavement design and where that information comes from (traffic studies, geotechnical data, existing pavement, etc.), what the parameters mean, what typical values are, design life, ESALs, AADT, etc. This session is meant to answer common questions you or residents in your jurisdiction may have about the asphalt pavement design process.