Employment history in continuing education...
Dr. Horvath has provided professional-engineering services related to continuing education for design professionals and others
involved in engineered construction since 1977. His clients have been located worldwide and included consulting-engineering
firms, government agencies, professional and technical organizations, academic institutions, and manufacturing industry. He has
provided a wide range of instruction ranging from brief presentations to multi-day short courses. In addition, Dr. Horvath has
extensive experience in traditional college/university classroom education. He is currently a tenured full professor in the Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department of Manhattan College in New York City. Details are available in Dr. Horvath's curriculum
vitae which is available to clients and prospective clients upon request.
Summary of experience in continuing education...
Providing continuing-education instruction to both engineering practitioners and non-engineering executives involved in the
construction industry has long been an interest and activity of Dr. Horvath as a logical outgrowth and extension of his traditional
classroom, course work teaching in academia. He is best known for conceiving, developing, and being the sole instructor for a
two-day continuing-education workshop titled "Designing with Cellular Geosynthetics (Geofoams and Geocombs)" that was the
first of its kind in the world. It was sponsored at several locations throughout the United States by the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) as well as various businesses and government agencies. Special one- and partial-day versions of this
workshop have also been developed and given on behalf of various industry and government-agency clients in the United States
as well as in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Japan, and Uruguay. To reach even a broader audience, Dr. Horvath developed an
abstracted version of these workshops as a PowerPoint presentation that was made available on a CD-ROM.
Dr. Horvath has also always had an interest in continuing-education involving the broader aspects of geotechnical engineering.
He recently become actively involved in the delivery of continuing-education to licensed professional engineers because of the
increasing demand for such educational products as a requirement for continued professional-engineering registration. In
addition, Dr. Horvath currently has projects involving both on-line courses and webinars in various stages of technical and
business development.
Dr. Horvath has provided professional-engineering services related to continuing education for design professionals and others
involved in engineered construction since 1977. His clients have been located worldwide and included consulting-engineering
firms, government agencies, professional and technical organizations, academic institutions, and manufacturing industry. He has
provided a wide range of instruction ranging from brief presentations to multi-day short courses. In addition, Dr. Horvath has
extensive experience in traditional college/university classroom education. He is currently a tenured full professor in the Civil and
Environmental Engineering Department of Manhattan College in New York City. Details are available in Dr. Horvath's curriculum
vitae which is available to clients and prospective clients upon request.
Summary of experience in continuing education...
Providing continuing-education instruction to both engineering practitioners and non-engineering executives involved in the
construction industry has long been an interest and activity of Dr. Horvath as a logical outgrowth and extension of his traditional
classroom, course work teaching in academia. He is best known for conceiving, developing, and being the sole instructor for a
two-day continuing-education workshop titled "Designing with Cellular Geosynthetics (Geofoams and Geocombs)" that was the
first of its kind in the world. It was sponsored at several locations throughout the United States by the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE) as well as various businesses and government agencies. Special one- and partial-day versions of this
workshop have also been developed and given on behalf of various industry and government-agency clients in the United States
as well as in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Japan, and Uruguay. To reach even a broader audience, Dr. Horvath developed an
abstracted version of these workshops as a PowerPoint presentation that was made available on a CD-ROM.
Dr. Horvath has also always had an interest in continuing-education involving the broader aspects of geotechnical engineering.
He recently become actively involved in the delivery of continuing-education to licensed professional engineers because of the
increasing demand for such educational products as a requirement for continued professional-engineering registration. In
addition, Dr. Horvath currently has projects involving both on-line courses and webinars in various stages of technical and
business development.
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