Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Proficiency Testing Schemes for Materials Testing on Rural Roads
This course highlighted the importance of Proficiency Testing Schemes (PTS) to ensure that all the tests conducted in a soil and materials testing laboratory for rural road development are to national and international standards. It described the personnel, procedural, data and maintenance management systems required to support the technical aspects of materials testing. It provided an outline description of tests with an emphasis on what can go wrong with the tests, and reporting results.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Gurmel Ghataora
Senior Lecturer
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore research from the Research for Community Access Partnership (ReCap).
- Reflect on the value of Proficiency Testing Schemes.
- Model aspects of the Proficiency Testing Scheme (through case studies), for example; staff management; equipment maintenance; data collection and storage; or the technical aspects of testing materials in line with international standards.
- Apply knowledge of laboratory processes to produce simple statistical analyses of laboratory test results and to interpret the results in order to draft a simple lab report.
- Explain different types of statistical terminology and tests including confidence limits and intervals, mean, mode, standard deviation, z-scores, hypothesis testing, t-tests.
Syllabus
Establishing and managing a Proficiency Testing Scheme.
An explanation of the different types of laboratory tests available to test the performance of the materials used to construct low volume rural roads.
Statistical methods used to assess the results of the laboratory tests.
Why there is a need for repeatability and reproducibility.
Case studies of the Proficiency Testing Scheme approach.
Issued on 9th May 2020
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