Engineering The Panama Canal

In Engineering The Panama Canal, you'll learn ...

• Lessons learned from the Panama Canal project that you can apply to your professional practice
• Managing the non-engineering social, environmental, and personnel management, in addition to engineering, on a project
• The value of recognizing changing conditions during a project and tips for managing them
• How to navigate the perils of working in a region where local knowledge is vital

Overview

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Credit: 4 CPD

Length: 56 pages

Sometimes experience is the best teacher. Learning from the challenges and errors of others is much less painful than learning these lessons on your own.

The Panama Canal lessons for learning is a historical recount of the project and the many engineers that worked on the project.

Professional Engineers will gain much knowledge in managing large projects with political influences heavily involved in its creation and oversight. Imagine if your main boss today were Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or Ronald Reagan. The Chief Engineers on the Panama Canal had to contend with a non-engineering boss and the fact that a prior team had tried and failed on the same project.

If you enjoy a good read and want to learn about the engineers that came before you, this training module will intrigue you. We will discover what life was like prior to Professional Licensing, true distinction in disciplines of engineering, adverse conditions, and influences far reaching beyond the field of engineering that had to be overcome. Come on this journey with me.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss political and public-works influences that shaped engineering decisions during the construction of the Panama Canal.
• Analyze how engineers and managers solved unexpected problems while working with limited resources and harsh site conditions.
• Evaluate the importance of project planning, professional competence, public protection, environmental responsibility, and community impacts.
• Apply Panama Canal lessons to a modern engineering scenario requiring scope discipline, leadership, and rapid problem-solving.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 20 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.