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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September and December 2023 – Seminars and Instructors’ biographies.

CE-157 Analysis and Design of Sheet Piles (Part #1)
This seminar will introduce and discuss the salient design procedures to implement sheet piles. The presentation will encompass sheet pile wall construction methods with attention given to cantilever sheet piles driven in soil with predominately clay deposits and with those that are predominately sand. There will be a review of pressure diagrams as well as an investigation of special procedures required for cantilever walls in sandy soils. Anchored sheet piles will be discussed as well as the moment reduction for anchored sheet pile walls.

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CE-158 Analysis and Design of Sheet Piles (Part #2)
This seminar is a continuation of CE 157 and will focus on areas such as Free Earth Support methods for the penetration into clay soils and Fixed Earth Support for the penetration into sandy soils. Other areas that are discussed will be the utilization of bulkheads and the types of anchors that should be selected. The holding capacity of anchor plates and beams in sandy soil will be reviewed. Additional comments will be made concerning the implementation and importance of Tie Backs and Brace Cuts.

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Ahmed Bashjawish, M.S.C.E., P.E.
Mr. Bashjawish is a graduate Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering and Masters in Hydraulics. He is licensed in both NY and NJ with 25 years of experience in the infrastructure, structural design, and construction with NYC and the private industry. Mr. Bashjawish has a solid background in project management, finance and financial analysis of public and private enterprises. He has worked 8 years at NYC DEP building distribution and trunk mains. Since 1998, Mr. Bashjawish works at DDC where he builds trunk mains, complex sewers system, retaining structures, and urban highway construction. In addition to his academic and common sense mannerisms, Mr. Bashjawish is an excellent public speaker and a communicator. He is fluent in foreign languages such as Arabic, French, and Spanish.

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EE-119 The Design of a Smart Electrical Grid (Part # 1)
This course presents an overview of the many efforts underway to evolve the existing power infrastructure into a more advanced, more reliable, more efficient and self-healing power system through the convergence of emerging technologies, business processes, regulatory policy and customer needs. Topics covered include challenges and limitations of existing power delivery technologies, enabling technologies such as communications infrastructure and computational algorithms and advanced technologies for distributed energy resources, transmission systems and energy storage.

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EE-120 The Design of a Smart Electrical Grid (Part # 2)
This course presents an overview of the many efforts underway to evolve the existing power infrastructure into a more advanced, more reliable, more efficient and self-healing power system through the convergence of emerging technologies, business processes, regulatory policy and customer needs. Topics covered include micro grids, advanced technologies for substations, distribution systems, load management and an overview of the various smart grid initiatives in the public and private sectors.

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.