ACEC New York takes an active role in fulfilling members’ educational and training requirements. Serving a broad audience -- firms of all sizes, WBE/MBE/DBE firms, new and long-established firms – the Council gears its seminars to principals as well as other staff members, choosing topics that address current issues or members’ needs. Speakers are often nationally recognized experts, both outside and within member firms.

Education is the focus of ACEC New York’s seminars, which include business as well as technical issues. The organization is an authorized provider of continuing education for registered architects, professional engineers and land surveyors in New York State. Courses approved by ACEC New York are acceptable for both engineering and architectural credits in New York State.
As an approved sponsor organization for continuing education, ACEC New York may approve courses for certification.

Click on Course Application and Guidelines to apply for certification. Other Web sites with helpful information are: www.pie-cpc.org (Practicing Institute of Engineering-PIE) and www.nysed.gov, the NYS Education Department Web Site.

Self-Study Courses. ACEC New York and Contract Solutions Group (CSG) have teamed up to offer our web seminars as self-study courses. Currently, ACEC New York has twenty courses in our library, each worth between 1 and 2 professional development hours. The courses may be ordered from CSG. Each course package contains: instructions, the power point presentation - printed and electronic, audio from the program (embedded in the PowerPoint), and a 10-question quiz. For each successfully completed program determined by a score of 70% or greater on the required quiz a certificate of credit hours will be issued. If you participated in the LIVE webinar, you will not earn credits for the self-study course. Engineers may earn 18 self-study credits during each three-year registration period. To order your courses click on the order form. If you have any questions you can contact gina@acecny.org or jjennings@contractsolutionsgroup.com

The following webinars are offered by ACEC New York:

September 23, 2010
11:30am-12:30 PM

The Little Green Schoolhouse: Acoustics & LEED for Educational Facilities
Ken Shook, Senior Associates & Jeremy Capungcol, Junior Associate
Cerami & Associates, Inc.
October 14, 2010
11:30am-1:30 PM 		Energy Recovery - Commercial and Institutional Comfort Applications
Darrell Wisz, A.D.E. Systems, Inc.; Air Distribution Enterprises, Inc.
October 28, 2010
11:30am-1:00 PM 		Seismic Design Requirements for Buildings and Building Components
Joseph S. Kime, P.E., Beardsley Design Associates Architecture, Engineering & Landscape Architecture, P.C.
November 11, 2010
11:30am-12:30 PM 		Coursework Accreditation Certification Seminar
Jay J. Simson, CAE, President, ACEC New York
(ACEC New York Members Only)

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