I got another advertisement in the mail. This one is intriguing – the website captures your attention a lot more than most of these sites, but on further inspection I’m not impressed.
Website: http://www.mckissock.com/engineering
State approval: Click throughs state that Maryland has pre-approved this training provider, and a check on the MD website confirms.
Fee Structure: Courses priced individually (e.g., $100 for a 6 hours class) and prepackaged by state ($197/24 hours).
Ease of use: Very easy to read, clean website design. No topic menus for sorting classes.
Course variety: Not many water related courses, not a lot of variety.
Course materials: Course materials are undated. Appear to be developed by the training provider.
Course instructors: 3 instructors are listed for the entire site, but are not indicated for individual courses.
Course ratings: Course ratings are available. The checkout page indicates you need to rate the course before you receive your course certificate. A lot of the cour
Course packages: Yes, prepackaged by state. The Maryland course package does not appear to meet Maryland requirements. Maryland requires a minimum of 1 PDH unit in content areas related to the standards of practice or care, laws and regulations applicable to the practice of engineering in Maryland, or professional engineering ethics and a course of this type is not listed.
Personal experience: I have not taken a course through this provider.
Preview course material: Yes, but the sample is not available on the course detail page, which is annoying. You have to click on the sample link on the page with the course listing, but even then you have to register to see course material. Some course samples are available here: http://www.mckissock.com/license-school-courses/engineering/docs/30HRBook.pdf
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