ETS Seminars

Counting all the ETS-sponsored seminars to date, over 2000 students have attended from industry, government agencies, utilities, academia, and commercial concerns. Over the years, the staff of ETS have written and published a series of textbooks and self-instructional workbooks. Training has also been provided in Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Taiwan, Spain, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Germany. ETS environmental training seminars have covered:

AIR

• Environmental Legislation
• The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments
• Air Permitting
• SOx / NOx Emission control
• Fine Particulate Control
• Introduction to Boiler Operation
• Air Pollution Control for Refuse Incinerators
• Fabric Filters/Baghouses
• Toxic Emission Controls
• ESP and Fabric-Filter Cost Optimization
• Hazardous Waste Incineration
• Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Control
• Fundamentals of Stack Testing
• Stationary Source Air Emission Monitoring
• Continuous Emission Monitor (CEM) Certification and Relative Accuracy Test Audits (RATAs)

WATER and ENVIRONMENTAL

• Watershed Management
• Water Chemistry Fundamentals
• Facility Investigation and Site Remediation
• Water Pollution Control
• Wastewater Treatment
• Watershed Management
• Potable Water Systems
• System Privatization
• Energy and the Environment
• Public Participation in Large Scale Development Projects
• Environmental Public Relations
• Pollutant Release & Transfer Register (Toxic Release Inventory)
• National Park Environmental Management
• Pollution Prevention
• Safety, Health and Accident Prevention

In 1991 and 1996, ETS was selected to provide the Air Pollution Control Technologies Course to senior technical personnel from developing nations. This course was the first of its kind, and was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Energy and Infrastructure, and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Countries represented included Jamaica, Nigeria, Philippines, Tanzania, Indonesia, Jordan, Taiwan, India, Egypt, Ecuador, Ghana, Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia. The success of this extensive training course has led to additional courses abroad in Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Kazakhstan. In 2001, 2002 and 2003 Academy for Educational Development (AED) selected ETS for training of groups from the Ukraine (PRTR), Russia (Public Participation), Kazakhstan (Environmental PR) and Armenia (National Park and Watershed Management).

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