Course Descriptions
Americans with Disability Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)/PROWAG Seminar
PURPOSE: This seminar includes presentations by the United States
Access Board, Office of the Illinois
Attorney General, Federal Highway Administration – IL Division, and
Illinois Department of Transportation
that will discuss the American’s with Disability Act Accessibility
Guidelines (ADAAG) that impact highway
agencies. It will also provide an overview of Public Right-of-Way
Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) that
are currently being developed.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: ADAAG, PROWAG, and federal/state compliance
requirements.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Asset Management
PURPOSE:
This course will provide students with a sufficient understanding of
asset management principles and an idea about how these principles
can be
applied cost-effectively in a local agency environment.
PREREQUISITES: Knowledge and probability of involvement with
the processes
for reporting asset conditions and/or managing transportation
assets.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Inventory and condition assessments,
tailoring asset management activities to
match an agency’s needs and resource constraints, developing an
asset management program, setting
performance targets, and selecting optimal strategies.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Communicating through COLORS
PURPOSE:
To help participants identify their own color (temperament) style
and that of their supervisors, peers and/or subordinates. In
addition, it will provide a new understanding of learning and
communication styles that are in keeping with the color style of
others.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Recognizing students own strengths and
the strengths of others, building instant rapport with others,
learning to speak the language of their listeners, enhancing the
ability to understand how others process information, and modifying
their own communication style to meet the needs of other
communication styles.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Highway Engineering
Principles
PURPOSE: To familiarize
engineering and technical employees or refresh their knowledge of
highway terminology and procedures used in conjunction with engineering
applications and the management of streets and roads.
PREREQUISITES: Mathematics Refresher Course, Units 1 through 17, or
equivalent; involvement in highway design or highway project development
activities.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Basic mathematics; horizontal and vertical curves;
slopes and grades; bituminous surface treatment; traffic, highway
organization and funding.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
MFT Accounting and Auditing
PURPOSE: This course will enable students to properly
record and account for MFT funds utilized on local agency projects.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Accounting and auditing principles of
MFT funds as established by the Illinois Department of
Transportation.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Manual on Uniform Traffic
Control Devices (MUTCD) Training
PURPOSE: This course will
provide the basic principles of traffic control that is contained in the MUTCD. It will also provide guidance on the importance of compliance
with the MUTCD and a general discussion on how and why devices are
included in the manual.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: There will be sessions focusing on the concept of
Positive Guidance, Human Factors, and how they relate to proper traffic
control, and highlights of each Part of the MUTCD.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
OSHA 10-Hour Construction
PURPOSE:
To provide safety training for highway personnel on several work
related topics. Participants receive an OSHA safety certificate.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Cranes, electrical, hazard
communication, ladders & stairs, personal protection equipment,
material handling, tools, walking working surfaces, and welding
safety.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 10 hours.
PDH’s: 10.0
Piling
PURPOSE: Introduction to foundation and piling inspection
and testing procedures, field documentation, and discussion of
problems encountered with piling installation.
PREREQUISITES: Probability of assignment to inspection and
documentation of pile driving operation.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Determining energy requirements for hammers, blow counts, site
safety, piling alignment, splicer requirements, bearing values,
setting up of field books.
LENGTH OF COURSE:
1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Retroreflectivity
PURPOSE: To explain the new federal regulations on
sign retroreflectivity as required by the MUTCD.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Types of sheeting required,
sign management, inventory and inspection will be covered.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Road Safety Assessment
(RSA)
PURPOSE:
Students will learn to identify, rank and develop countermeasures
for road risks according to
RSA procedures.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: RSA risk identification, risk analysis,
countermeasure selection and necessary
documentation of the RSA process.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 2 days.
PDH’s: 12.0
Team Building Through
COLORS
PURPOSE:
Participants will focus on team building as it relates to their agency
and their own color and
evaluate the impact of conflict, communication, task assignments and
temperament in building a successful
team.
PREREQUISITES: Communicating through COLORS Course
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: The four stages of team building: storming,
forming, norming and performing
and how conflict and communication affect team building.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1day.
PDH’s: 6.0
NOTE: Students will not be allowed to attend this course if the
prerequisite, Communicating through
COLORS, has not been met.
Understanding Specifications
PURPOSE: This course will
enable students to identify the different types of contract documents
and
explain the hierarchy of these contract documents, to understand the
format and use of the Standard
Specifications, and to determine when and how to write effective special
provisions and plan notes.
PREREQUISITES: Involvement in highway design, highway project
development, or highway construction
activities.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Specifications, special provisions, pay items and
plans.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Local Agencies Only Enrollment
ArcGIS - Introduction (For Local
Agency Personnel Only)
PURPOSE: This three-day course will introduce the
student to ArcGIS 9.X.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: ArcGIS software, ArcMap, ArcCatalog and ArcToolBox,
customizing the ArcGIS interface, working the Geodatabases and tables,
reviewing the locations of GIS data, Linear Referencing (Dynamic
Segmentation), queries, data’s spatial reference, working with external
data and GPS data, and creating maps.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 3 days.
PDH’s: 18.0
ArcGIS – Building a Map Document/Working with Layouts
(For Local Agency Personnel Only)
PURPOSE: This class will cover ArcMap and
ArcCatalog and will review the
ArcMap interface, where GIS data is stored.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Adding data to a map document, working with layers
such as changing the drawing order, symbol, color and size and working
with the
layout view to create a map.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
ArcGIS – Labeling/Annotation Layers & Layouts
(For Local Agency Personnel Only)
PURPOSE: This class will cover reviewing adding
data to a map document,
changing symbol, and reordering layers.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: New material will include working with labels such
as
labeling with attributes, text and shields.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
ArcGIS - Queries (For Local Agency
Personnel Only)
PURPOSE: The student will learn to develop and use
queries utilizing the ArcGIS
software
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Setting the selectable layer, controlling the
identify tool
to display what you desire, the find tool to locate features by
attributes, address or
route location, selecting features based on attribute query, and
selecting features
by location associated with other feature(s).
LENGTH OF COURSE: 1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Flagger Training (for Local Agency Personnel Only)
PURPOSE:
This class provides training to local agency personnel for their day
labor and maintenance activities. It meets requirements established
by the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
PREREQUISITES: This course is available to local agency
highway personnel holding a valid driver’s license or an Illinois
Identification Card from the Secretary of State.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Traffic control devices, the flagger’s
role in work zone safety, Illinois laws and responsibilities, and
flagging procedures.
LENGTH OF COURSE: ½ day.
PDH’s: 3.0
Tractor/Mower
Operator Safety Training (for Local Agency Personnel Only)
PURPOSE:
This class will focus on the operation and safety of the mower and
provide hands-on training
on the equipment, safe operating techniques and the use of personal
protection gear.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Proper operation of the mower, hands-on training, safe operating
techniques
and the use of personal protection gear.
LENGTH OF COURSE:
1 day.
PDH’s: 6.0
Illinois Center for
Transportation (ICT) Administered Classes
Documentation of Contract Quantities
PURPOSE:
To provide the student with the ability to document, with some
supervision, contract quantities to Federal and State standards.
PREREQUISITES: Mathematics Refresher Course, Units 1 through
15, or equivalent; one year construction experience and familiarity
with general highway construction terminology and practice.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED: Project diary entries; quantity book
preparation and entries; cross-reference system; extra work reports,
and the measurement and calculation of pay items for pay quantities
occurring in road and bridge plans.
LENGTH OF COURSE: 3 days.
PDH’s: 18.0
NOTE:
Effective July 2008: The Documentation of
Contract Quantities class will be administered by the Illinois
Center for Transportation (ICT) and coordinated by Mary J. Fries of
the University of Illinois. All transactions and correspondence will
now be through ICT and not the Illinois Department of Transportation
(IDOT) Central Bureau of Construction or through the Technology
Transfer Center. Please visit the ICT website at
http://www.ict.uiuc.edu/home/documentation_certification.html for more information.
National Highway Institute (NHI) Classes
The Illinois Department of Transportation and/or the Technology Transfer Center will not be handling
enrollments for the National Highway Institute (NHI) classes this training season. For additional information
on NHI classes, visit their website at
https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/default.aspx.
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