Transform your engineering workflow: move faster, catch errors, and automate the paperwork eating your day.
This course introduces civil engineers to Claude, the AI assistant from Anthropic, through the three fastest paths to first value. Participants learn how Claude differs from search engines and traditional chatbots, then apply the platform to realistic tasks drawn from the Maple Creek Bridge Replacement Project, a fictional three span girder bridge simulation with realistic documents, numbers, and problems. Module 1 covers Native Chat at claude.ai, including prompting fundamentals, structured reasoning, checklist generation, and the verification hierarchy that governs professional use. Module 2 covers Connectors, which let Claude read your working systems across Google, Microsoft, and a growing directory of engineering and business applications. Module 3 covers the browser extension, where Claude rides along as you research funding programs, permits, supplier quotes, and regulatory databases. Special emphasis is placed on verifying every number against codes and specifications, admitting uncertainty early, and treating every output as a draft for review by a licensed engineer.
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Who Will Benefit/Target Audience:
This course is designed for civil engineers, project engineers, project managers, engineers in training, technologists, and firm leaders across structural, geotechnical, transportation, municipal, and construction practice who want to understand and apply Claude to improve productivity, accuracy, documentation, and decision support.
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No prior experience with Claude is required; however, a basic understanding of civil engineering project workflows and professional business communication will be beneficial.
MA, CMC, CITP/FITP
GARRETT WASNY, MA, CMC, CITP/FITP, is an artificial intelligence (AI) skills advisor to accountants, tax attorneys, enrolled agents, and tax preparers worldwide. His courses focus on the new intersection of accounting and technology, and provide guidance to practitioners on how to prosper in this dynamic age. His sessions demystify emerging cloud, mobile, and social applications, and explain in plain language how financial professionals can use these online tools to build trust, solve problems, and create new value. He’s also an award-winning Internet speaker, author, app developer, professional development specialist, and former management consultant for Price Waterhouse. He's published 50+ ebooks on computing and ethical issues related to accounting, written hundreds of articles and columns on Internet strategy, and delivered thousands of seminars and webinars to CPAs and accounting organizations around the globe.
