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CONTINUING ENGINEERING EDUCATION

The Florida Board of Professional Engineers has approved Ralph Verrastro, PE as a Continuing Education Provider (# 0006924) which allows him to develop engineering training courses and provide continuing education certificates (CEH/PDH). Ralph Verrastro, PE offers continuing education courses/seminars at civil/bridge engineering and public works industry association conferences and on-line webinars. Ralph prepares and presents custom educational seminars for bridge product suppliers and design-build contractors for vendor sponsored continuing education workshops for civil engineers. The following lists provides Ralph's past experience teaching engineering college courses at SUNY Broome in Binghamton, NY, technical presentations at engineering industry conferences, published technical articles and technical interviews on television broadcasts.

1. Engineering Disasters - FIU Bridge Failure (Science Channel Documentary)
2. Interviewed by Tom Costello on Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) - NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (after the FIU Bridge Collapse)

TV Interviews
Presentations

  1. Innovative/Resilient Bridge Rehabilitation Project 

  2. Specifying Prefabricated Vehicular Steel Truss Bridges 

  3. Flood Damaged Bridges 

  4. Bridge Failures - Lessons Learned 

  5. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concrete Box Culvert Bridges* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) 

  6. Innovative Composite Bridge Products 

  7. Precast Concrete 101 

  8. Bridge Flood Emergency Training 

  9. Bridge Maintenance Management for Florida Municipalities 

  10. A Bridge by Others?  

  11. Phased Accelerated Bridge Construction with GRS/IBS Abutments 

  12. Accelerated Bridge Construction: Design Build Replacement of Rock Ridge Rd. Bridge 

  13. Melbourne Street Bridge Replacement 

  14. Accelerated Bridge Construction 101 

  15. Accelerated Bridge Construction Using Prefabricated Products 

  16. Bridge Design and Construction 

  17. Innovative Tools and Techniques – Prefabricated Bridge Components 

  18. Bridge Design Coordination for Land Development Projects 

  19. Land Development Bridges 

  20. Rehabilitation of the McKinley Avenue Bridge over the Norfolk-Southern Railroad 

  21. Structure Selection – Small Bridges 

  22. Bridge Design Workshop 

  23. Precast Box Culverts 

  24. Rehabilitation of the Bridge Street Bridge over Chemung River 

  25. Truss Bridge Floor Beam Replacement During Stage Construction 

  26. Repairing Metal Truss Bridges  

Publications

  1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concrete Box Culvert Bridges.... (But Were Afraid to Ask), Florida Engineering Society Journal, October 2019 and Florida Public Works Magazine, October 2019 

  2. Route 484 Bridge over Greenway Trail, PCANY Newsletter, February 2018 

  3. Bridging Responsibilities, Florida Engineering Society Journal, May 2016 

  4. PRECASTSLAB + (GRS + IBS) = ABC, Florida Engineering Society Journal, June 2015 

  5. Bridging Responsibilities, Land Development Today, August 2005 

  6. Proper Management Improves Process, Land Development Today, August 2005 

  7. Land Development Bridges, Revitalization (Supplement to CE News), May 2005 

  8. Pre-purchasing Precast Concrete Products, The County Highway Times, April 2002 

  9. Precast Plant Automation, MC Magazine, Fall 1999 

  10. Truss Bridge Floor Beam Replacement during Stage Construction, Proceedings of the International Bridge Conference, June 1998 

College Courses

1. Engineering Vector Mechanics (Statics)
2. Engineering Graphics
3. Computer Programming for Engineers
4. Engineering Physics
5. Strength of Materials

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