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• Introduction to Distribution Protection and Protective Devices

  • Start
    28 Jul 2026
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  • End
    30 Jul 2026
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Online, Virtual Course

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  Introduction to Distribution Protection and Protective Devices VIRTUAL 2 HALF-DAY PROGRAM July 28 & 30, 2026 12:00 - 3:30 PM Eastern

  Collaborative Learning and the Academy for Utility Line Design Professionals are offering an e-learning course that you will not want to miss!

  Early Registration Discount!  Register by July 21st

  This course will be presented in two (2) “live” online half-day sessions on Tuesday July 28 and Thursday July 30. All sessions incorporate high-quality presentations by qualified instructors with Q&A and other opportunities for group interaction. You will receive digital copies of the presentation materials in advance, allowing you to work with them before, during and after the online sessions. The scheduled online sessions will also be recorded and available for viewing for a period of thirty (30) days, enabling participants to work around any scheduling conflicts.  Participants completing this course will receive a certificate for seven (7) Professional Development Hours (PDH).  COURSE OVERVIEW This course provides an overview of electric utility distribution system protection: protection of the high voltage distribution system from damaging short-circuit (fault) currents and overvoltages. Topics include types of short circuit currents and their determination, short-circuit current limits of distribution components, characteristics and typical applications of protective devices, selective coordination of devices for circuit protection, overvoltages, and overvoltage protection. This course is a cost effective and convenient opportunity for you to become familiar with or refresh and update your knowledge of distribution protection fundamentals. COURSE TOPICS Causes, types and characteristics of short circuit currents Impacts of system grounding on short circuit current magnitudes Determination of available short circuit currents on the distribution system Time-current characteristics and use of TCC curves Short-time current withstand capabilities of distribution components TCC characteristics of protective devices Distribution overcurrent protective devices for both overhead and underground applications –­  Expulsion, power and current-limiting fuses –­  Circuit breakers –­  Reclosers –­  Sectionalizers –­  Fault indicators Circuit sectionalizing and selective clearing of distribution faults Overvoltages and overvoltage protection COURSE INSTRUCTORS Course instructors R. John Miner, P.E., and Tom Black, P.E. have over 75 years of combined experience in the electric utility industry, including extensive experience in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of overhead and underground distribution lines and equipment. They are offering this program as a cost-effective and convenient opportunity for you to become familiar with or refresh and update your knowledge of distribution protection fundamentals. R. John Miner, P.E., President, Collaborative Learning Inc.  John is an accomplished executive manager and educator with over forty-five years of experience in the electric utility industry.  He is president of Collaborative Learning, Inc. of Austin and San Antonio, Texas, a firm that presents management and technical education programs and, through Collaboration Unlimited, provides management consulting services to the electric utility industry.  John’s technical seminars and workshops for utilities have covered such topics as application of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), overhead and underground distribution systems, electric system planning, construction, operations, and maintenance.  John earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering (with honors), and a Master of Science degree in engineering science, both from the University of Toledo.  John is a Senior Life Member of the IEEE and is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Texas and Minnesota. Tom Black, P.E., Technical Consultant and Continuing Education Program Developer and Instructor, Collaborative Learning Inc. Tom is an accomplished engineer and executive manager who works with Collaborative Learning as a technical consultant and continuing education program developer and instructor. Tom has more than thirty-five (35) years of experience in the electric and gas utility industries including employment with both municipal and investor-owned utilities. Tom teaches courses on such topics as electrical distribution principles, overhead and underground distribution systems, the NESC, electric system planning, construction, operations and maintenance.  He earned his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis (with honors) and is a registered professional engineer in the states of Colorado and Arizona. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). LEARNING METHODS This program is applications‐oriented, including high‐quality presentations Q&A, group interaction, and opportunities to check what you have learned. WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE Engineering/operations managers Design/operations engineers and technicians   Construction/maintenance crew supervisors and members Consulting engineers DAILY SESSION SCHEDULE         This program will be presented in two (2) “live” half-day sessions.  The planned schedule for each daily session is as follows, subject to some variation based on the level of participant engagement that impacts the pace of presentation. (All times are Eastern Time). 11:45 p.m. to 12:00 p.m.        Platform up and running for log-in  12:00 p.m. to 01:10 p.m.        Session 01:10 p.m. to 01:20 p.m.        Break 01:20 p.m. to 02:30 p.m.        Session 02:30 p.m. to 02:40 p.m.        Break 02:40 p.m. to 03:30 p.m.        Session (Ends at 3:30) REGISTRATION FEE Individual Registration price is $595. Early Registration (by July 21) is $550. Group discount of $50 per person for any organization that registers three (3) or more people. Each participant from a participating organization is required to be a paid registrant. No group viewing is permitted unless all participants are registered.  For larger group pricing, please contact us.  You must register by July 21, 2026 to receive the Early Registration Discount. Cancellations are accepted if request is made at least 10 days prior to start of the course. Within 1-7 days or "no show", the full registration fee will be charged. When possible, please send a substitute instead of cancelling. We do not charge a fee for registrant substitutions.

  If you have questions or need assistance, you can contact Jillian Wolfe at Collaborative Learning. Email her at  Jillian.Wolfe@cl-cu.com or call her at 512-657-7314.

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• MAKING THE THING HAPPEN - QUICK START (Free Introductory 1 hr.)

  • When
    5 Aug 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online - you will receive a link

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  FREE 1 HOUR INTRODUCTION TO MAKING THE THING HAPPEN – MASTER CLASS

  JOIN US ONLINE: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Project management literacy for the whole organization — not just the people with the title. You’ve been in the meeting. The agenda gets covered, everyone nods and people file out. A week later, nothing’s moved because many people left the room not knowing what was actually theirs to do. That’s not a people problem. That’s a clarity problem, and on most projects it quietly becomes the most expensive one. In this hour, we start where projects really live or die: who owns what, and when it gets done. You’ll meet a handful of tools that turn good conversations into work that actually happens: the stakeholder register (who’s really in the room), a RACI chart (who’s Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed, and why saying it out loud ends the “I thought you had it” problem), and the one habit that should close every meeting — naming who, what, and when. You’ll come out of this introduction seeing your own days differently. Every meeting, every hand-off, every “wait, who’s got this?” suddenly visible, and finally fixable before it falls through the cracks. WHO IT'S FOR: Founders, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners Nonprofit leaders and arts administrators Marketing, agency, and creative professionals Team leads and coordinators who run projects without the PM title “Accidental” project managers — anyone handed the project without the training It’s for people who move projects across the finish line, in any field.     Taught by someone who has spent twenty-five (25) years putting these tools to work in the field – and is still using them today. The tools are the discipline’s standards; what you get here is how they hold up in the wild.

  MEET THE INSTRUCTOR, TOPHER WOLFE CL Project Management Consultant For twenty-five years, Topher Wolfe has worked in film and television as an Assistant Director. The job has a deceptively simple description: the Director is in charge of what you see on the screen; the Assistant Directors are in charge of getting it there. Note the plural — it’s a team. From 2nd 2nd AD to Key 2nd AD to 1st AD, Topher has worked the floor from every position. For the better part of the last decade he has been a 1st Assistant Director — the person at the center of the floor — on scripted television series for Showtime, NBC, Peacock, TNT, BET, Apple TV+, and FX. Crews of a hundred or more. Immovable deadlines. Decisions measured in seconds, with real money riding on each one. The way he describes the job: “I don’t tell people how to do their jobs. I tell them where they need to be and when they need to do it.” Nobody on a film set calls that project management. But that is exactly what it is. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Directors Guild of America’s Assistant Director Training Program — one of the most selective professional programs in the industry — Topher has spent his career walking into rooms full of experts, each one the master of a single department, and getting all of them to move as one. His expertise is the space in-between departments. It's getting a complicated thing done — on time — in a room where everyone has mastered one piece of it. It's the same job whether you're making television or running an operation that can't afford to fail. Topher lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he’s an avid football fan, a cornhole fanatic, and a self-described mediocre golfer who loves to grill.  REGISTER NOW FOR: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

  This course is part of Collaborative Learning's Summer Sale Program. Sign up for the 3-hour Master Class by August 13, and get the Early Registration $45 Discount!  CLICK HERE for more information.

  
  

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• MAKING THE THING HAPPEN - MASTER CLASS (3 hr.)

  • When
    27 Aug 2026
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    12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online - you will receive a link

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  MAKING THE THING HAPPEN MASTER CLASS

  IN-DEPTH PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE Thursday, August 27, 2026 12:00 - 3:30 PM ET Project management literacy for the whole organization — not just the people with the title. Most organizations don’t have a project management problem, they have a role-clarity problem. Projects rarely fail outright. They stall because no one is sure who is responsible for what, where to take a problem, or when the project is officially complete. Making the Thing Happen is project management literacy for the whole organization — not just the people with the title. Work piles up in the gaps between people, and good projects die quietly. Not from one big failure, but from a dozen small “I-thought-you-had-it”s that never get said. The free, introductory session shows you the tools that exist and names them. In the three-hour course, you’ll walk through a real project and look at it from the first question to the final checkmark. You’ll leave with a way of seeing you can use daily. This course won’t turn you into a project manager — it isn’t trying to.  It’s for everyone who is handed pieces of a project without ever being shown how it all connects. It’s where the shape of the whole comes into view — and where your piece sits inside it. When an organization works from a shared language, the gaps where projects stall start to close on their own. By the end of the session, you’ll be able to see the structure underneath any project — enough to: Know what makes something a project, and not an open-ended task — so you stop pouring effort into work with no finish line.  Recognize who owns a project, and why ownership often has to cross departments — so people pull toward one outcome without trying to do each other’s jobs. Read where a project stands at any moment — so problems surface while they’re still small, instead of becoming the thing that blows the deadline. Know what it takes to complete the project — claim the win, put it down, and capture the lesson — so the next one starts smarter than the last. WHO IT'S FOR Founders, entrepreneurs, and small-business owners Nonprofit leaders and arts administrators Marketing, agency, and creative professionals Team leads and coordinators who run projects without the PM title “Accidental” project managers — anyone handed the project without the training  It’s for people who move projects across the finish line, in any field.   REGISTRATION: Individual Registration price is $395. Early Registration price (by August 13) is $350.  Group discount price ($25 per person) is $325 for any organization that registers three (3) or more people. Each participant from a participating organization is required to be a paid registrant. No group viewing is permitted unless all participants are registered.  For larger group pricing, please contact us. You must register by August 13, 2026 to receive the Early Registration Discount. Cancellations are accepted if request is made at least 10 days prior to start of the course. Within 1-7 days or "no show", the full registration fee will be charged. When possible, please send a substitute instead of cancelling. We do not charge a fee for registrant substitutions.

  ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR, TOPHER WOLFE CL Project Management Consultant For twenty-five years, Topher Wolfe has worked in film and television as an Assistant Director. The job has a deceptively simple description: the Director is in charge of what you see on the screen; the Assistant Directors are in charge of getting it there. Note the plural — it’s a team. From 2nd 2nd AD to Key 2nd AD to 1st AD, Topher has worked the floor from every position. For the better part of the last decade he has been a 1st Assistant Director — the person at the center of the floor — on scripted television series for Showtime, NBC, Peacock, TNT, BET, Apple TV+, and FX. Crews of a hundred or more. Immovable deadlines. Decisions measured in seconds, with real money riding on each one. The way he describes the job: “I don’t tell people how to do their jobs. I tell them where they need to be and when they need to do it.” Nobody on a film set calls that project management. But that is exactly what it is. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the Directors Guild of America’s Assistant Director Training Program — one of the most selective professional programs in the industry — Topher has spent his career walking into rooms full of experts, each one the master of a single department, and getting all of them to move as one. His expertise is the space in-between departments. It's getting a complicated thing done — on time — in a room where everyone has mastered one piece of it. It's the same job whether you're making television or running an operation that can't afford to fail. Topher lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he’s an avid football fan, a cornhole fanatic, and a self-described mediocre golfer who loves to grill.

  Don't miss the 1-hour introductory course: MAKING THE THING HAPPEN – QUICK START Wednesday, August 5, 2026  •  12:00 - 1:00 PM ET  CLICK HERE

  
  If you have questions or need assistance, you can contact Jillian Wolfe at Collaborative Learning.
  Email her at  Jillian.Wolfe@cl-cu.com or call her at 512-657-7314.
  

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