Benefits

Scheduled seminars throughout the DC 37 Education Fund provide licensed Professional Engineers and Registered Architects the opportunity to earn Professional Development Hours for license renewal. Engineers are required to have a minimum of 36 development hours as part of the renewal process; 18 of which must be in an interactive classroom setting. These seminars are open to licensed engineers and architects only.

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January-February 2026 – Seminars and Instructors’ biographies.

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EE-156 Electrical Power Grid Vulnerabilities & Resiliency Strategies (Pt. #1)
This seminar focuses on the vulnerabilities of electric generation, transmission and distribution systems to both manmade and natural hazards and the means to make systems resilient against those hazards. The seminar begins with a brief overview of electrical power grids and then covers hazards such as aging infrastructure, human error, physical attack, geomagnetic disturbances and finally resiliency strategies such as micro-grids, distributed generation, storm hardening and advanced grid technologies.

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EE-157 Electrical Power Grid Vulnerabilities and Resiliency Strategies (Pt. #2)
This seminar focuses on the vulnerabilities of electric generation, transmission and distribution systems to both manmade and natural hazards and the means to make systems resilient against those hazards. The seminar begins with a brief overview of electrical power grids and then covers hazards such as major storms, climate change, earthquakes, electromagnetic pulse, cyberattack and finally resiliency strategies such as micro-grids, distributed generation, storm hardening and advanced grid technologies. EE-157 may be taken independently of EE-156.

Neil Weisenfeld, M.S.E.E., P.E.
Neil Weisenfeld is a professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He has 23 years of experience in the power industry and is currently a department manager in Con Edison’s Distribution Engineering department. He has worked in the areas of Power Generation, System Operation, Engineering and Energy Services. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Power Engineering Society of IEEE for over 10 years, is a senior member of the IEEE and holds four U.S. patents.

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CE-240 (*)(+) Ethics for Practicing Engineers (Part #3)
This course will explore three diverse areas of ethical challenges and opportunities facing the Professional Designer and offer paths toward successful accomplishment of these life-defining responsibilities in today’s environment.

The first area will focus on basic issues of creating plans and specifications for projects to be constructed, or while working in the manufacturing field while resolving potential conflicts that arise between the technical and the business goals.

The second area will explore overseeing construction as the Owner’s Representative or managing as the Contractor’s PM, assuring the facility is built to the standards set forth in the contract while bringing the project in within budget.

The National Society of Professional Engineers’ Code of Ethics will act as a base line in defining the professional’s level of responsibility. This base line will then be expanded using an outline of moral codes developed by our earliest philosophers and modern business thinkers.

Practical advice is given in creating ethical business relationships with Contactors as well as the ethical “fair& reasonable” interpretations of a contract.

The third area will look at special concerns for the volunteer professional who donates time after a disaster, along with the various possible legal and ethical ramifications that must be taken into account.

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CE-241 (*)(+) Ethics for Practicing Engineers (Part #4)
This course will discuss broader implications that involves a review of the lessons learned from the Fukushima accident and the global assumptions developed from that disaster which must be considered when designing any large project.

The ethical responsibility each of us has for identifying and creating our own best selves is analyzed within the context of leadership and management styles that enhance dealing effectively with followers and staff. To assure this wider perspective is understood, an analysis is performed of the types of long-term ethical considerations that should be kept in mind in the face of today’s accelerating technological changes.

William Rodwick, BSCE, MPA, P.E.
Mr Rodwick has worked over 24 years with NYC Transit and 25 years with the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a licensed PE in NYS, has a BSCE & MPA. His domestic & international experience ranges from soil and foundation design to construction management, Chief of Estimating, Chief of Design Mgt and Asst Chief of Engineering Division while with the Army Corps. At NYCT, he worked as Senior Construction Manager, Chief of Quality & Safety Mgt & Asst VP Engineering & Design. He has developed and presented over 20 different professional and technical courses to thousands of professionals. Presently, he is serving as President of the Practicing Institute of Engineering.