Rhode Island T2 Center

University of Rhode Island Transportation Center 1/7/2009 3:48:37 AM

Rhode Island T2 Center Workshops

Throughout the year, the Center offers numerous training sessions highlighting essential skills and best practices for the public works audience. Below is a list of some of our offerings. To suggest a new topic, contact Jeff Cathcart.

Workshops

• Administering the Union Contract

• Introduction to Air Bags

• The Basics of Air Brakes

• All About Asphalt Pavements

• Arch Culvert Bridges

• All About Asphalt Pavements

• Backhoe Operating Techniques

• Basic Blueprint Reading

• Basic Surveying

• Basics of a Good Road

• Beaver Control

• Best Management Practices

• Bridge Inspection

• Building a Budget

• Calibration of Sanders

• Construction Career Day

• Chain Saw Operating and Maintenance Tips

• Chain Saw Skills & Safety

• Chain Saw Techniques

• Cold Mix Paving

• Communications Skills for Public Works Officials

• Competent Person

• Concrete Construction for Public Works

• Conducting Effective Performance Reviews

• Confined Space

• Coping with Difficult People

• Demonstration of Asphalt Rubber Surface Treatment

• Demonstration of Pavement

• Pulverization and Liquid Calcium Chloride

• Detroit Diesel – Allison Transmission

• Disaster Planning Teleconference

• Drainage, Drainage, Drainage

• Elgin Street Sweeper

• Equipment Management Systems
Equipment Show

• Expecting Inspections – EPA

• FHWA Snow Conference

• Flagger Certification

• Flowable Fill

• Forklift Operator Training

• Geosynthetics

• Getting Your Message Across

• Grader Workshop

• Gravel Road Demonstration

• Hazardous Materials

• Highway Application of Shredded Tires

• Highway Department Management

• How to Spec and Build a Snow Removal Truck

• Indoor Expo

• Infrared Technology

• Introduction to Welding

• Introduction to FEMA

• ITS Teleconference

• Limbing Trees

• Line Clearance Certification

• Line Painting Equipment and Federal

• Laws Governing Types of Paint

• Management Tips

• Managing, Motivating & Communications

• Mechanically Stabilized Earth

• Mig Welding

• Mountain of Demonstrations

• Pavement Maintenance Expo

• Pavement Maintenance Methods

• Pavement Management Systems

• Pelican SE/S Sweeper School

• Planning and Financing Capitol

• Improvement Projects

• Precast Concrete Bridges

• Preparing for Winter

• Public Works Exchange

• RIDOT – DPW Interchange

• RSMS Update

• Sign Inventory Management

Skills for Administrative Assistants

• Small Engine Maintenance

• Snow & Ice

• Snow Plow Rally

• Streetscapes Teleconference

• Stress Management

TEA-21 Funding – APWA Teleconference

• Tig Welding

• Timber Bridge Seminar

• Time Management

• Time Management for Secretaries

• Torches

• Tree Trimming Skills

• Turning Problem Employees into Problem Solvers

• Weeds, Trees & Turf

• Welding Workshop

• Winter Operations

• Work Zone Safety

• Working Safely with Underground Utilities

• Works Zone Safety Teleconference

• Writing Skills

University of Rhode Island Transportation Center.
Carlotti Administration Building, 75 Lower College Road, Kingston RI 02881, (401) 874-7075, Fax (401) 874-2297