Transform static spreadsheets, decks, and documents into interactive engineering assistants.
This course brings Claude, the AI assistant from Anthropic, inside the three applications where civil engineers already spend their working day: Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Using realistic scenarios from the Maple Creek Bridge Replacement Project, participants watch Claude audit, build, and explain spreadsheets while preserving formula logic; draft and populate presentation decks in place; and prepare reports, specifications, and reviews inside the document rather than beside the document. Participants learn how the Excel add in adjusts inputs, runs scenarios, drives native operations such as pivot tables and conditional formatting, and generates narrative documentation of models and assumptions suitable for audit. The course frames Claude as a fast junior engineer rather than an oracle: strong at structure, formulas, and explanation, and always subject to review. Special emphasis is placed on preserving spreadsheet integrity, clarifying ambiguous requests before acting, 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 Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, along with common civil engineering documents, 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.
