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Culverts are generally used to move water from one side of a road to the other. They are often used as alternatives to bridges. Culverts can be four sided or three sided, depending on the application cost and other design factors. The three sided culverts are bottomless and are useful to decrease the amount of environmental impacts along its length.

This course will address several design options that can be used to reduce scour at the inlet and outlet of both upstream and downstream bottomless culverts. After reading this 4 hour course the student will have valuable information that can be used to perform a bottomless culvert scour study.

The course materials are based solely on the materials “Bottomless Culvert Scour Study – Laboratory results” as published on the website of the Federal Highway Administration.

To receive PDH credit, the student must take a multiple choice quiz of twenty (20) questions.

State Board Acceptance

This course can be used by professional engineers to fulfill PDH requirements mandated by state and provincial licensing boards. Decatur Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing education in all states that pre-approve course providers. In all other states that mandate continuing education for engineers, it is the individual engineer's responsibility to determine the suitability of activities for PDH credit. The state boards typically accept online* courses that cover technical, managerial** or ethical content and which are relevant to the practice of engineering. The course must have a clear purpose or objective with a content that will maintain, improve or expand the skills and knowledge of the licensee's field of practice. For questions about your mandatory PDH requirements, visit the website of your state licensing board.

*Online courses are accepted by all state licensing boards that mandate continuing education. Other than New York (which limits online courses to 18 PDH) and Iowa (which limits online courses to 6 PDH), there are no limits placed by other states on the number of hours that can be earned through online continuing education. Consult with your state licensing board if you have any questions about the acceptability of online courses.

**The New York State Board of Engineers does not accept general office management courses, but will accept project management courses that are offered by an approved provider and that are technical in nature and contribute to the engineer's professional practice.

Please Note: Continuing Education credits for this course are awarded as PDH (Professional Development Hour Credits).