ProBoat E-Training 2011 Course Catalog
ProBoat E-Training is your online source for excellence in marine education: Our intensive series of online courses has been developed by the staff of Professional BoatBuilder magazine.
C O U R S E S
Please note: We will start a new section of Rhino each month, so check back here often to find a date that is workable for you.
Rhino for Marine Designers (Six-week course, starts monthly): Learn to enhance your boat and yacht design skills with Rhino 3D Modeling software. We'll teach you how to work with curves, then surfaces, then we'll move into fairing a simple chine hull, followed by a more complex sailing schooner hull. Finally, when you have mastered the skills necessary for the foregoing projects, you'll go on to a self-directed project of modeling a complete hull/deck/superstructure of your own design. Note: You must have access to a copy of Rhino to complete this course.
Price: $390 (student discount available on request)
Instructor: Cliff Estes
Course Descriptions
Intro to Marine Electrical Systems Part One (Four-part course, work at your own pace.): Here you'll gain an understanding of the terminology, theory, and practical knowledge regarding marine electrical systems. Since this course is an overview, there is no hands-on component involved. If you have wired a boat, or assisted in wiring one, then this class will complement that experience. If you have not had any hands-on experience, that is fine too as this course's purpose is to teach you the theoretical knowledge involved in designing and specifying marine electrical systems.
Price: $200
Instructor: Ed Scott
Intro to Marine Electrical Systems Part Two (Five-part course, work at your own pace.): In this course, you will learn terminology, theory, and practical knowledge regarding marine electrical systems, specifically batteries, circuit protection, distribution panels, and wiring design. Again, there is no hands-on component involved. The purpose of this course is to teach you the theoretical knowledge involved in designing and specifying marine electrical systems.
Price: $200
Instructor: Ed Scott
Designing Yacht Interiors (Introduction): This interactive course in interior design will introduce you to a number of elements and details to be considered when making decisions about materials, colors, textures, furnishings, and work flow. At present, we are only offering the first component: The discovery process, which focuses on dealing with a new client.
Price: $75
Instructor: Judy Bell-Davis
Color-Matching Gelcoat (Four-part course, work at your own pace):Here you'll learn about types and causes of damage, how to document your repair work, and how to prepare the surface. For each segment, you will have lab work to complete, and at the end of the course, you will send your color samples to your instructor for evaluation.
Price: $200.
Instructor: Charlie Teran
Load Capacity and Flotation (Five-part course, work at your own pace): This highly technical course covers the rules and standards for maximum weight capacity of small boats; calculating displacement weight and maximum weight capacity; testing a boat for displacement and maximum weight; rules, calculations, and installation procedures for flotation; and USCG and ABYC regulations.
Price: $300
Instructor: Peter Eikenberry
Propeller Selection for Boats and Small Ships
(Three-part course, work at your own pace.): Materials for this course include a 32-page text, as well as prop-calculating formulae and spreadsheets created by the instructor. First you'll study the text, then work on problem solving, then finally review your solutions and compare them with the instructors conclusions.
Price: $79
Instructor: Christopher Barry
The Marine Survey Report (Four-part course, work at your own pace.): A survey is only as good as the report that communicates the work of the surveyor, and a good surveyor's findings (and reputation) can be lost in a poorly written report. This course will help you bring your writing skills up to a new level.
Price: $200
Instructor: Patricia Kearns
The Marine Survey Report Practicum: Looking for more of a hands-on-the-keyboard experience? Our instructor will critique one or more of your existing survey reports, showing you exactly where you need to improve your work, and how to do it.
Price: $95 per survey
Instructor: Patricia Kearns
Tech for Trainers (Three segments): This course if FREE to you if you are willing to help create new short courses for ProBoat E-Training. We'll explain how PBE-T works, we'll introduce our learning platform (MOODLE), and we'll describe best practices for teaching online. Much of this material can be adapted to both classroom and in-house training programs.
Price: $200
Instructor: Barbara Jean Walsh
ProBoat E-Training Online Open House
If you have ever wondered what a ProBoat E-Training course really looks like, visit the Online Open House to sample all of PBE-T’s currently available offerings. To access the Open House, you need to register so you can participate in the forums, ask questions of the instructors, and so on.
To register, go to www.pbbetraining.com and (1) log-in with your PBE-T username and password or (2) sign up. After you have done that, select the Open House from the list of courses, and enter the key fHOUb3U when prompted.
The Open House is set up as an online course, so this also gives you the chance to see what a class might be like. (No homework, though.)
We are are now offering a course to encourage more people to share their knowledge and skills by teaching online. You can preview one part of it now by watching our free 30-minute presentation on Best Practices for Using PowerPoint Online. Just click here then log in with your ProBoat E-Training User ID and Password, or follow the instructions for accessing the Open House above, then click on the "Tech" tab at the top of the screen.
If you want more information about teaching online, sign up for our new course Tech for Trainers. This will introduce you to a number of tools than you can employ in developing your own online courses, or in preparing materials to be used within the ProBoat E-Training venue.
New classes that we are hoping to offer are listed below. Register now to add your name to be notified when the course is ready to accept students.
Note: We do not have starting dates on the proposed courses listed below. In some cases, they have not gone much beyond the "good idea" phase. Please sign up anyway. We need to show student interest in order to recruit instructors. (And yes, we need instructors to recruit students. It's tricky.) :
FREE: ProBoat E-Training Workshop at IBEX 2010 - click here for copy of presentation.
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