Achieving Quality of Asphalt Emulsion

Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Certificate

The Achieving Quality of Asphalt Emulsion certificate will help you gain an understanding of the different perspectives of quality when considering asphalt emulsion-based maintenance and rehabilitation treatments for flexible pavements.

In order to ensure long lasting, less expensive roadways through pavement preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation, it is critical to ensure quality is met at all stages of asphalt emulsion’s life. This certificate will provide a basic background on the design, manufacturing, and field construction that will set the stage to examine and explore quality control and quality assurance in each of these phases of construction. In addition, guidance will be provided on best practices in developing and assembling a quality control/quality assurance plan. Finally, case studies will be provided at the state, county, and city level from a public perspective, and one private owner perspective. Throughout the entire process of pavement preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation, ensuring the quality of asphalt emulsion is essential.

• Approximately 16 hours to complete the course.
• Registrants will have 4 weeks to complete thecourse.
• Download and print 135 pages of reference material to put on their shelf.
• Upon completion, if requested, 15 professional development hours will be awarded.

Prior Learning

This noncredit course is best suited for Engineers looking gain new expertise.No prior knowledge of asphalt is required. Additionally, to ensure success, students should:

• Be comfortable reading and understanding English, as all materials are provided in English.
• Have basic computer skills, including navigating the internet, downloading/uploading files, installing software, and using applications like Microsoft Word.

Learning Objectives

• Identify steps to achieve quality in laboratory design
• Explain practices to achieve quality in manufacturing
• Discuss techniques to achieve quality in field application
• Assemble a quality control/quality assurance plan
• Describe successful implementation to achieve quality using asphalt emulsions