Online MSCE – Transportation Engineering Specialization

00:01 Hello everyone, welcome to the Online Master of Science and Civil Engineering
00:06 Transportation Engineering Webinar. Welcome we’ll give everyone just a few
00:12 minutes to join us before we get started with our special guests for the moment I
00:18 would like to address your attention on you’ll see the PowerPoint presentation
00:23 in the middle of your screen and then on the top left of the screen that you’re
00:27 seeing you will see several buttons that you are able to use you can click on one
00:33 of those for an appointment with either one of your enrollment advisors myself
00:37 highly Bing or my colleague Trish klutz you can also download our program
00:43 brochure if you have not done so already watch a short video on dr. geiszler who
00:49 is our program director get to know him a little bit and then also you have an
00:53 option there to watch the create four good videos that we’ve created here with
00:58 the Russ College of Engineering you also have options you’ll see just below that
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01:24 in your questions if you like we will absolutely address each one of those on
01:29 an anonymous basis if you prefer as well at the end with our guest and myself I
01:36 leave a Miami enrollment advisor so we’ll get started here in just a minute
01:40 give everybody an opportunity to join us
02:08 okay everyone so welcome to the webinar thank you so much for taking the time to
02:13 join us as I mentioned before my name is Ellie Bank I’m an enrollment advisor
02:19 specifically for the Master of Science in civil engineering we are going to
02:23 have the agenda you see here in front of you introductions clearly program
02:29 details that we will go over you will meet one of our assistant professors dr.
02:33 Ben Sperry and he will go over the transportation engineering particulars
02:38 and then I will touch base with you on what an online MSC II student can expect
02:45 and we will have our Q&A; session to follow shortly after that so let’s get
02:50 started as you’ll be able to see here this is our team Nisha and Trish are my
02:57 colleagues they are also enrollment advisors on this program among others
03:01 Ruth is our program coordinator as you get accepted into our program and go to
03:08 register she will become your point of contact moving forward you have that one
03:12 specific person that will be that person you can reach out to throughout your
03:17 career and then of course dr. guy Reisler who is our program director and
03:22 also professor in the environmental engineering specialization so our online
03:29 MFE program details as you can see here clearly this is an advanced program for
03:35 professional civil engineers you do not need to already have had your PE nor are
03:40 you required to have previous professional experience we do have some
03:43 students that are coming right out of their undergrad the courses are taught
03:47 completely online and taught by the same professors that teach the on-campus
03:52 courses it consists of 32 credit hours you can do this program in as little as
03:58 a year and a half or so 18 months 20 months more or less and we can accept up
04:06 to eight credit hours transferred in from other masters level work we have
04:12 four concentrations construction engineering and management environmental
04:16 engineering transportation that we’re going to talk about today
04:20 and the structural engineering specializations there is no thesis
04:25 requirement our tuition you can see their in-state and out-of-state per
04:29 credit hour and we have three starts per year spring in January summer in May and
04:35 in fall is the August start for fall semester so I would like to introduce to
04:44 you dr. Ben Sperry he is going to take over give you some information on our
04:49 transportation specialization in his area of expertise dr. Sperry take it
04:54 away all right thank you good afternoon
04:57 everyone out in the webcast of course my name is Ann Sperry on behalf of all the
05:05 other faculty of our program welcome to our webcast nice to have everyone on the
05:12 other end of the line you can see there my biography I’ll just give you a little
05:19 bit of information about myself I’m originally from Illinois started
05:25 here at Ohio University in 2013 here in our transportation engineering program
05:30 prior to being joining our faculty here at OU you I was in Texas A&M; University
05:38 which is where I did my graduate studies so originally from the Midwest did spend
05:45 some time in Texas down doing my research around that area most of my
05:53 research is interested in multimodal transportation environmental analysis
05:59 and just general impact analysis and we’ll get a little bit more into that as
06:06 we talk about some of our specific courses here in our program you know one
06:11 of the things there in the end at the end of the first paragraph there of my
06:17 biography you know what we’re really trying to do with a lot of projects that
06:22 we implement in transportation engineering is we’re trying to provide
06:28 people with you know a better commute to work you know more options
06:33 for a travel whether it’s transit or improving pedestrian and bicycle most
06:41 things like that but what we deal with in transportation will bring this back
06:46 around at the end is that the people who make decisions whether it’s in city
06:51 council all the way up to the people in Washington DC or in the state
06:55 legislature you know they are the ones ultimately who make the decisions about
06:59 what projects are built in what projects do not get funding so our role and I
07:06 view our role and I approach our courses in our program our role as engineering
07:12 professionals is to come up with our professional opinions or professional
07:17 judgment on how people how travellers would respond to our different ideas and
07:23 our different policy initiatives not just travelers number what are the
07:27 broader impacts so how can we make informed decisions about which
07:32 improvements in which investments need to be made so all the different courses
07:36 we’ll talk about in a moment all the different courses will help you as an
07:42 employee of your consulting firm or perhaps the public agency better
07:48 understand those different implications so that we can then inform better
07:53 decision making all right some of my other interests down there
08:00 intercity passenger rail looking at high speed rail site planning and traffic
08:04 impact study as well as environmental analysis which is where my contribution
08:09 here in the online program is we’re going to the client here let’s talk
08:16 briefly then about the curriculum that you’ll be participating in when you
08:22 arrive here on campus or when you’re enroll in our program rather so we have
08:27 five core courses that you will participate in that all the different
08:31 areas of civil engineering participated in our online program so we have an
08:36 advanced statistics course planning and scheduling engineering writing we have
08:41 an online project management course as well as in a seminar course so those
08:45 courses when you Cepeda in those courses you’ll be
08:49 participating with students are in other areas of the program then we have six
08:54 required courses in the transportation engineering section listed here so we
09:01 have bridge engineering environmental analysis of transportation systems
09:05 that’s the course I teach and we’ll be talking about that in more detail in
09:09 just a moment we have a highway safety and risk assessment class pavement
09:14 design traffic parameters and then also a transportation design course so six
09:21 classes giving you a very broad overview of different areas of practice and
09:27 transportation engineering but there are a lot of things that are similar about
09:30 them and we use the skills that we learn in those courses we use the skills from
09:36 all of the courses in our practice excuse all right I do want to talk then
09:46 about the course that I teach which is seee 6610 environmental analysis of
09:52 transportation systems as I’ve been going through this course we’re
09:56 currently offering it right now during this spring 2016 semester as I’ve gone
10:01 through the planning and development of this course in our online program I have
10:06 found that it’s pretty innovative in terms of other schools do not offer a
10:12 course in environmental analysis that focuses specifically on the issues faced
10:18 by people in the transportation engineering profession so I say it’s an
10:22 innovative course for both our online and our on-campus curriculum we’ve
10:29 gotten a lot of feedback from practitioners saying you know you know
10:33 people who take this course are very well prepared we have a lot of unique
10:37 aspects in this course and I really enjoy teaching it so where do we cover
10:43 the broad topic is of course the environmental impacts of transportation
10:48 systems development whether it’s highways mass transit airports railroads
10:54 other freight transportation systems we always have impacts on the environment
11:00 and just like anything else in life there are trade-offs so we are using
11:06 environmental resources to the benefit to the broader benefit of society or
11:10 improve mobility for example or providing people with transportation
11:15 choices and building a light rail system for example there are trade-offs that
11:20 need to be made we need to understand those trade-offs if we are going to make
11:24 effectie and inform decisions about whether or not to proceed with these
11:29 building projects so we deal with the analysis and mitigation of these impacts
11:34 we identify the impact analyzed there a broader impact on the environment and
11:41 also that how can we mitigate these impacts so mitigation
11:46 can we avoid the impacts can we compensate for them how do we go about
11:51 essentially mitigating our effect on the environment of course we deal with the
11:57 environmental policy in the u.s. we do cover those laws and regulations as well
12:03 as the implementation of those laws and regulations so the most common the most
12:07 visible aspect of that is the environmental impact study or
12:12 environmental impact statement those of you who are working in the
12:16 transportation area right now you’re on the phone perhaps you’ve been involved
12:20 with an environmental study in the past there are certainly a lot of different
12:24 aspects that are covered in these studies and we do try and cover a broad
12:30 range of impacts in this course we do also touch on the issue of
12:35 transportation demand forecasting a lot of the impacts a lot of our analysis of
12:41 the environmental impacts is based on our expected demand or usage of facility
12:46 when it opens how many people for example if we build a light rail system
12:52 how many people will stop driving in their cars and take the light rail
12:58 system instead obviously that number has a pre a very profound impact on how the
13:05 light rail system benefits the environment we do need to include that
13:09 as well so what are the environmental impacts that we look at in this
13:14 force one of the biggest ones that we cover actually for four weeks out of our
13:20 semester week we spend time on this issue of noise analysis both from
13:25 highways as well as transit development what are the impacts of the noise that’s
13:32 generated by both highways and transit on the surrounding environment and how
13:37 do we mitigate those impacts we’ll cover that in just a couple of minutes on
13:42 another slide we also then have impacts on natural resources right energy air
13:48 quality what about water there’s been a lot of that in the news recently about
13:54the quality of the water how do we develop our transportation system in a
13:59 way that does not compromise everyone’s ability to drink clean water have clean
14:05  water vailable for other uses on a more practical level we think about the
14:11 quality of water turning around here in Ohio in the northern states during this
14:16 time of year we’re seeing a lot of salt on the roads you know that goes into the
14:21 runoff how would if we built a new highway for example we have increased
14:27 snow removal activity that means increased salt and runoff into our water
14:35 resources so understanding those impacts what about the impacts on ecosystems
14:40 without wetlands and we have a diverse wildlife in a lot of places you know we
14:48 are all you know we’re all on this planet together you know both humans as
14:52 well as other animals so we have to develop our transportation system
14:57 respecting those linkages between different elements of our ecosystem so
15:02 we study the impacts on natural resources we also study the impacts of
15:06 transportation systems development on society what do I mean by society
15:11 cultural resources historic sites recreational resources like parks
15:16 schools called otherwise culturally significant areas we also have
15:22 archaology what about the visual impacts what does our what will our
15:26 transportation system look like when it is developed how does
15:30 that blend in with the surrounding landscape and of course and if many of
15:36 you are involved at the local level whether you work for a city or perhaps a
15:43 consulting consulting firm that works extensively with municipal engineering
15:47 you know that land use is a very important factor in the relationship
15:52 between our built environment and how the transportation system operates so we
15:57 do need to develop develop our transportation facilities with the
16:02 impacts on land use in that relationship we need to have awareness of that
16:08 relationship so we do cover that as well in this course and of course we do also
16:13 discuss issues related documentation as well as the involvement of the general
16:18 public and communicating with the general public go ahead and move to the
16:24 next slide here one of the big topics as I mentioned previously is this issue of
16:32 highway noise analysis so in the environmental analysis course that I
16:36 teach we talk about highway traffic noise and really highway traffic noise
16:42 is if you think about it one of the most dominant noise sources in our
16:46 environment so if you stand outside your home or your place of work chances are
16:52 you will be you will hear highway traffic noise or noise or transit or
16:56 noise from railroads now obviously the impacts are significant on your quality
17:01 of life maybe if you just think about for example if you live in a city or if
17:05 you live it even if you live in the country where it’s normally very quiet
17:10 noise from highway traffic they keep you up at night or waking you up or your
17:16 sleep may not be as good of a quality so there’s a quality of life issue there’s
17:22 also issues related to property values so we need to be aware of the
17:28 relationship between how people value their property and how close we are to
17:34 highway traffic noise sources so in our environmental analysis course we do
17:40 extensive highway traffic noise and so we utilize the traffic noise model or
17:44 TNM software package that’s the only software approved by the US Federal
17:50 Highway Administration or FHA for analyzing highways traffic noise impacts
17:57 so we are doing extensively utilizing TNM in our course and I did hear from
18:06 somebody in practice just a few weeks ago when I was working with them they
18:13 commented that they did not know of any other university programs that were
18:17 utilizing the traffic noise model in their curriculum so I’m very pleased
18:22 that we are able to provide this and you will find and hopefully and maybe many
18:27 of you who are on this call we’ve worked in the transportation area in the past
18:32 have been around or been exposed to traffic noise analysis as part of the
18:38 product development process so we will we dig in a lot acoustics as well as the
18:44 use of the traffic noise model to estimate these noise impacts and again
18:50 based on the traffic characteristics right so the composition of the traffic
18:54how many trucks are there how many motorcycles are there and how fast are
18:59  they going based on that information what will be the impacts on adjacent
19:04 residences and businesses with respect to highway noise so we answer that
19:09 questin using the traffic noise model as part of this course
19:12 another question we answer that as we move to the next slide is how do we
19:18 mitigate any adverse noise impacts so if we have a nearby residence or a nearby
19:24 business and our analysis indicates that there are adverse impacts with respect
19:29 to highway traffic noise one option that we have is to install a highway noise
19:34 barrier and noise barriers can be concrete precast panels as shown on the
19:40 left or a combination of say a precast panel placed on top of a earthen berm or
19:47 mount these are many different options for noise barriers so we do talk about
19:52 that as well but what are the key questions will a
19:56 noise barrier be effective at reducing the noise impacts we can find that
20:00 information out using traffic noise model but then we also have the issue of
20:04 cost we do need to be cognizant of how we spend our resources so will a barrier
20:11will annoys barrier be cost effective so we also look at that so we look at both
20:16 front for the highway noise we look at both analysis as well as mitigation of
20:22 adverse impacts this is one of the technical analysis that we conduct as
20:30 part of the environmental analysis course we also deal with this these
20:37 societl impacts the impacts on society very different not as much calculation
20:44 involved as there are just a qualitative analysis of the impacts of
20:50 transportation systems development one of those impacts on society is visual
20:56 impacts of transportation systems development so here we have a bridge
21:01 over the Ohio River about half an hour away from the main campus of Ohio
21:06 University in Athens south of the Ohio River so we also have the barge there in
21:11 the picture as well this new bridge was built a few years back by the Ohio
21:15 Department of Transportation and this photo was taken by one of the students
21:20 who does the include eight who participate in the on campus version of
21:24 this course also ask the students to go out and take a picture of a
21:28 transportation facility in their town or in their city and conduct a brief visual
21:34 impact analysis as part of the course so what are the key questions that we deal
21:40 with in a visual impact analysis essentially we’re asking what is the
21:44 compatibility of this bridge in this case with the surrounding landscape does
21:49 it stick out or does it provide unity does it bring together elements of the
21:55 surrounding landscape does it blend or does it has it doesn’t have very strong
22:01 trash is very noticeable we also then consider it from the visual impacts
22:08 perspective what do the users of the bridge see so if you’re driving over the
22:12 bridge or if you’re walking over the bridge what does it look like what if
22:16 you’re a non-user what residents of the community see
22:18 right so if you are at the location where this picture is being taken versus
22:23 at the foot of the bridge underneath the bridge so say you are a business there
22:28 are businesses on the right-hand side of this image at the end of the bridge what
22:35do you what do those individuals what do these residents what your business
22:38 owners see that’s part of the visual impact analysis more broadly we deal
22:44 with the significance of the facility from a cultural perspective if we put
22:49 this in if we build this bridge will it give us a point of pride in our
22:56 community now or perhaps maybe in the future it will develop into a point of
23:05 pride for the community it will become a part of the community’s fabric that’s
23:12 part o the visual impact as well so you know I have this slide in here to get
23:17 you thinking a little bit which is what I try to do in this environmental
23:21 analysis course thinking about the broader impacts of transportation
23:25 systems development and we’ll touch on some of these other questions in a
23:28 moment move on to the next slide here I do want to mention then arm a innovative
23:39 piece of software called visa that we’re using and you will be and you will get
23:44 instruction on that of analysis software in the traffic parameters course so for
23:50 many decades we we have been able to analyze the traffic we’ve been able to
23:58 conduct a traffic analysis using different techniques modern software
24:04 then gives us an opportunity to do even more in terms of visualization so for
24:10 example on this image that we have here off
24:15 to the left we have we are able to overlay our analysis of these freeways
24:21 this freeway system on top of an aerial photo of the area so people who are
24:28looking at this can see there where they are maybe where they live where their
24:33 businesses in relationship to this freeway we can also see that when we use
24:41 different colors in the overlay on the highway itself we can also then note
24:47 where our problem areas are where the improvements might need to be made or
24:51 what types of improvements we would expect the second bullet point there is
24:57 what I’m trying to get at with this software so not only will you be trained
25:01 on the use of modern traffic analysis software but this issue of communicating
25:08 with the public right how do we take our technical results our technical analyses
25:14 and communicate them to a non-technical audience so this visualization I’m
25:20 showing here on this slide allows for that bridge between our technical
25:25 knowledge and the public who just happens also be a frequent user of our
25:30 transportation system we move on to my last slide here which basically gives a
25:38 little bit of my own perspective on essentially what are the challenges
25:43 facing modern transportation engineering practice well I want to make a couple of
25:49 points here that I have listed the first point obviously we want to continue to
25:55 apply modern transportation engineering analysis and other types of state of the
26:01 practice approaches to solving problems and transportation engineering so the
26:07 public puts a lot of trust a lot of faith in our analysis and our technical
26:13 capabilities we need to obviously then continue to keep our skills at a high
26:18 level keep our toolbox so to speak full of the most modern and
26:28  search based practices the second point then falls off of that first point we
26:36 have modern computing technology we have software technology for traffic analysis
26:43 environmental impacts analysis these tools not only make our jobs easier but
26:49 also give us a better way to communicate with the public so in our practice we do
26:57 need to utilize modern engineering practices as well as our computer
27:01 software tools going back to what I had mentioned at the very beginning of my
27:06 portion of this talk a lot of our transportation systems are developed
27:12 using taxpayer funds public resources so the decisions that we make for
27:19 investments need to reflect a responsible and efficient use of those
27:24 limited public resources so the people who employ us as transportation
27:30 engineers then rely on us to give to give to them a recommendation that
27:37 understand that we are doing what we believe to be the best solution for this
27:44 problem we are seeing in the last few years then over the last say 20 years or
27:50 so certainly there is an increased focus on problems and solutions that encompass
27:55 more than one mode of transportation so whether it’s incorporating mass transit
28:01 such as light rail streetcar development or investing in things like bicycle
28:07 trails more emphasis on non motorized bicycle and pedestrian issues we have an
28:15 increased focus on that and so our technical capabilities also then need to
28:19 reflect a multimodal orientation rather than just dealing with highways or
28:24 transit time in a vacuum we’re also seeing an increased emphasis on the
28:29 broader impacts so we talked a lot about the environmental impacts say in the
28:34 1960s the focus was on adding capacity to highways and doing it in the cheapest
28:41 way possible some of the negative impacts of highway
28:44 development that we see today are the result of that single focus on adding
28:50 highways for the cheapest cost now we have to consider a broader range of
28:56 impacts on the environment on society how is this going to affect how people
29:00 live their lives even if they don’t utilize our transportation facility so
29:07 I’m going to for example if I build a streetcar even if you don’t use the
29:12 streetcar system there’s a good chance that you will be affected by so we have
29:17 to deal with these broader impacts another kind of along with that then at
29:22 the project development phase is increased involvement of and I use this
29:27 term in quotes non-technical colleagues and of course many of you who are in the
29:33 engineering profession right now you understand this but you know we are
29:38 dealing with people who use gif systems we are dealing with our architects we’re
29:45 dealing with archaeologists people who can conduct public outreach
29:51 environmental analysis professionals water quality we’re dealing with the
29:56 Department of Natural Resources or other resource conservation type agencies
30:02 we’re dealing with freight systems so we are having to more than ever have a
30:11 truly multidisciplinary team tackling the transportation challenges that we’re
30:18 dealing with so we have problems that we need to solve we are seeing that a truly
30:24 multidisciplinary approach emerge and so you have to then as a transportation
30:28 engineer or a traffic engineer understand where those individuals are
30:33 coming from what their objectives are going to be and then how do we combine
30:37 and we bring together all of our objectives to find a solution that is
30:42 amenable to all the parties that are involved
30:45kind of along with that then my final point we do have an increased
30:50 involvement with the community whether it’s outreach public meetings trying
30:56 to get the feedback buy-in as well as trying to make sure that our
31:01 transportation system is based on a consensus the development of our our
31:05 highways transit whatever the case might be is what the people want because truly
31:10 we are serving the people with the development of our transportation system
31:15 to excuse me on that last point then if you think about all of these what seven
31:21 challenges that I listed off there I feel like our MSC II curriculum here at
31:28 Ohio University both online as well as in the classroom will prepare you give
31:34 you the skills and expertise that you need to tackle these challenges so we
31:37 understand the broader impacts of the transportation system we understand how
31:41to use modern computing software technology we understand multimodal
31:47  problems we understand broader impacts so again on the online program I feel
31:55 like we do a good job of setting up our courses that give you this expertise
31:59 that will enhance your existing career path if you hopefully give you more
32:06 options for your future and hopefully again my goal is to help make you feel
32:11 like you know when you get out of my class that you feel like you’re better
32:15 prepared to tackle some of these challenges so that’s all I have I will
32:20 turn it back to our host for the remainder of the webinar and I look
32:24 forward to hearing from you on your question so thank you very much thank
32:31 you so much doctors very very informative information that you shared
32:35 with us I can tell you it’s opened my eyes to a lot of things that I think we
32:40 take for granted and it’s very important for our engineers to be so well prepared
32:44 so very much appreciate all of this information as I’m sure our attendees do
32:50 I would like to address in our next slide basically what an online MSE e
32:56 student can expect a couple of different points that you’ll be able to see here
33:01 you’re going to as dr. Sperry alluded to in his conversation with you learn
33:06 advanced skills that can be immediately apply to your current
33:10 position you’re going to get a lot of feedback from our faculty experts that
33:15 have civil engineering backgrounds and varying disciplines of civil engineering
33:20 our curriculum is very innovative it’s focusing on not only the core areas but
33:27 also specialized areas in each one of these different specializations
33:31 especially of course what we touched on today the transportation engineering of
33:37 course you’re going to have lots of opportunity to have networking and
33:42 collaborative opportunities not only with other students but with your
33:45 professor you have lots of face time in some cases using face-to-face
33:50 communication in a chat environment phone calls emails lots of contacts with
33:56 your professor and fellow classmates as well as the flexibility that is built
34:02 into this with the asynchronous format which means of course it all work is
34:07 deadline-driven it means it’s flexible we know what you
34:11 all as engineers are having to deal with on a regular basis clearly the majority
34:16 of you are not working bankers hours so you’re not coming in at 10:00 in the
34:21morning and leaving it 4 in the afternoon you’ve definitely got a lot on
34:25  your plate so we are trying to make this as flexible as possible taking into
34:31 account those schedules and having it be deadline driven is something that’s
34:35 going to help you all continue to be successful even if it’s one class at a
34:40 time for ten semesters or two classes at a time for five semesters it’s made to
34:45 be as flexible as possible so you all can be as successful as possible so
34:52 we’re going to jump into the questions section and feel free to chat with us in
35:00 the Q&A; section and let us know what your questions are we have a couple that
35:05 are have come in one of them is does Ohio University offer scholarships at
35:11 this point I am sorry to say no we do not however we can work with any private
35:16 scholarships or grants any student is able to secure by way of
35:20 any Association memberships as well as tuition
35:24 reimbursement or tuition benefits from either your employer or military service
35:29 we are also able to work with clearly student loans from FAFSA so do feel free
35:36 to have that be an option to be able to help yourself pay for school if you have
35:41 any other questions of course you can reach out individually to us on any of
35:46 that topics on how to pay for school on we have a couple of questions that have
35:51 come in is the diploma the same as the diploma on the campus does it say online
35:56 excellent question it does not say online in fact all it will say is Master
36:02 of Science and civil engineering rust College of Engineering Ohio University
36:07 and your name so it does not make any differentiation between the campus and
36:12 the online program and in fact I’ll expand on that and say you’re studying
36:16 the exact same curriculum that the campus students are Sutter II studying
36:21 excuse me as dr. Sperry referred to and you are receiving your instruction in an
36:27online delivery method from the campus professors another people sorry I can
36:37 offer yeah I can definitely affirm everything that you just said and you
36:41 know because I I put the materials together for my course I can tell you
36:46 that it is 95 percent if not 100 percent for some topics exactly the same
36:52 material that I cover in the on-campus offering of my class and to me obviously
37:00 this is a huge advantage because then you can say hey I took this course at
37:07 Ohio University I took this course at Ohio University I was in the online
37:10 program I was in the on-campus program my goal and I think I speak for all the
37:15 faculty is that your experiences and the knowledge that you get out of those
37:19 courses would be consistent as much as possible and also to the point on on the
37:24 financial issues both for the on campus as well as the online programs you know
37:30 I you know I can I can only speak for myself but again I feel like I speak for
37:33 everybody here in the faculty we understand that you that the students
37:37 are looking for value it’s an investment in yourself we try to bring that value
37:42 to both the on campus and the online programs so we are very cognizant of how
37:48 much these things cost we wanted we want you to feel like you invested in
37:52 yourself and that you got something out of it if we if I didn’t do that for my
37:56 class I would feel like I didn’t do a good job so I’m always trying to make
38:00 sure that the students feel like they got value from participating in our
38:04 program thank you for allowing me to weigh in yeah absolutely it coming
38:10 straight from the expert that is I think carries a lot of weight so thank you so
38:15 much for sharing that and adding to my statement very much appreciated the last
38:22 question I see here is is there a thesis for the online delivery method there is
38:28 not and that is something that the campus students have to do but the
38:33 online delivery method does not really lend itself to a thesis so instead you
38:38 will have the seminar course and that seminar course is a one credit hour
38:43 course can take in conjunction with other even if you’re doing one at a time
38:47 it will help you enhance your abilities with technical presentations and
38:51 researching technical literature so another way to add to that skill set
38:56 that you’re going to take in to on your career moving forward so if there are no
39:04 further questions um from anyone that’s attending the program we will stop it
39:11 here today please do of course feel free to reach out to any of the individuals
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39:34 because they’re from individuals who are clearly driven to improve their
39:38 education and we love to be able to help people do that and of course keep in
39:44 mind our deadline date is April 4 try April 1st so a little bit of time
39:49 still to go but do remember the earlier you apply the earlier you can get your
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39:57 I’d like to thank you all for attending dr. Sperry thank you so much for your
40:02 time and for sharing your knowledge and expertise with our attendees today very
40:06 much appreciated I appreciate the opportunity look
40:10 forward to everybody joining up and having you in class in the future thank
40:15 you