Course: Online-PDH Resource Center

Online-PDH Resource Hub

Find practical guidance about taking courses, continuing-education requirements, professional ethics, PDH documentation, customer policies, provider credentials, and engineering practice.

Customer guidance, CE compliance, professional ethics, course policies, and engineering practice

Customer Guidance

Getting Started and Customer Support

Learn how the website works, find answers to common questions, and request assistance when needed.

How to Take a Course Follow the process for enrollment, study, examination, and certificate completion.

Frequently Asked Questions Find answers about accounts, plans, courses, examinations, certificates, and records.

Contact Us Request help with an account, purchase, certificate, course, or technical problem.

Our Organization

About Online-PDH

Learn about our organization and the technical professionals who develop and review our courses.

About Us Learn about Online-PDH, our history, educational approach, and engineering focus.

Our Instructors and Peer Reviewers Meet the licensed engineers, educators, and subject-matter experts behind our courseware.

Customer Protection

Policies, Records, and Documentation

Review the policies governing purchases, course credit, customer information, completion records, and audit support.

Our Refund Policy Review the money-back guarantee and how a refund affects course credit and certificates.

Our CE Audit Assistance Policy Learn what supporting documentation may be available during a licensing-board audit.

Recordkeeping Policy for Engineering CE Understand the records Online-PDH retains and the documentation licensees should preserve.

Duplicate Course Credit Policy Review licensee responsibilities concerning repeated courses and duplicate CE credit.

Terms of Use Review the conditions governing accounts, purchases, course access, and acceptable use.

Privacy Policy Learn how personal, account, transaction, and course-completion information is handled.

Educational Methodology

Course Standards and Provider Information

Learn how course credit is assigned, how study materials are selected, and how provider credentials affect acceptance.

How We Assign PDH Credit Review our instructional-time and course-difficulty methodology for determining PDH values.

Understanding Our Study Materials Compare prescriptive publications with conceptual and originally developed instruction.

Board-Approved Provider Credentials Review provider registrations, board approvals, and jurisdictional acceptance pathways.

NCEES and State CE Guidelines Understand how NCEES guidance relates to controlling state statutes and licensing-board rules.

Public Protection

CE Compliance and Public Welfare

Explore HSW qualification and the professional engineer's overriding responsibility to protect the public.

What Qualifies as HSW Continuing Education? Learn how health, safety, and welfare subject matter is identified for engineering CE.

The Engineer's Paramount Duty Examine the obligation to hold public health, safety, and welfare paramount.

Professional Judgment

Ethics and Emerging Engineering Practice

Use professional codes, ethics cases, and modern practice guidance to strengthen engineering judgment.

Engineering Ethics Codes and Frameworks Compare major engineering codes and learn how they support ethical professional practice.

Using the NSPE BER Case Database Learn how to research published ethics opinions without treating them as individualized legal advice.

How Engineering Ethics Codes Are Evolving Review how professional codes are responding to changing technology and professional responsibilities.

Black-Box Engineering Examine professional responsibility when engineers rely on software, algorithms, and systems they cannot fully inspect.

Online-PDH Resource Center

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