Professional Development Courses

Address the pressing challenges of aging infrastructure by mastering the principles and practices of effective asset management. This course equips participants with tools and strategies to extend asset lifespans, optimize resource allocation, and ensure long-term sustainability in diverse industries.

As electric vehicles reshape the future of mobility, understanding rapidly evolving battery technology, a critical component of EV systems, is essential for engineers driving innovation. This course delivers a comprehensive, hands-on exploration of battery systems—from chemistry and safety to modeling, management, and second-life applications.

Learn about the operating characteristics and design criteria of blower systems in water, wastewater, or industrial systems.

Learn how to run your maintenance and operations like a business with this immersive two-day course. Gain the financial fluency, strategic mindset, and communication skills needed to drive cultural transformation and long-term performance.

Carbon accounting course covers GHG accounting; reduction target establishment; climate solutions; integrating climate concerns into business strategy.

Gain the confidence you need to design a successful, energy-efficient chiller plant. Learn how to identify design issues and solve problems regarding plant sizing, location, chiller selection, and cooling tower placement. This course incorporates small-group problem-solving exercises to enrich your learning experience.

From Symptoms to Solutions: A Team-Based Approach to Continual Improvement is a two-day, instructor-led course that gives professionals a structured, team-based method for solving recurring problems in manufacturing and operations. Aligned with the Manufacturing Excellence Certificate, the course emphasizes practical tools and facilitation skills that support long-term, cross-functional improvement efforts. Participants learn to apply continual improvement principles in real-world settings and leave with strategies they can use immediately. The course develops the capability to apply structured problem-solving within PDCA cycles, quality systems, and broader improvement efforts. It supports continual improvement by developing shared language, team facilitation skills, and habits that lead to measurable results. Aligned with the Manufacturing Excellence Certificate, this course complements InterPro’s broader offerings in operational excellence, leadership, and applied improvement practices.

This course, and related cross-connection control and backflow prevention courses, are being offered by our partner, Madison College. These courses will provide the same high-quality cross-connection and backflow prevention training you have come to expect from UW–Madison InterPro. This course provides practical training through hands-on sessions that will teach you how to test backflow prevention assemblies and identify and resolve problems with backflow prevention assemblies. Backflow theory; selection of backflow prevention methods, devices and assemblies for specific applications; and state and local agency rules and regulations will also be discussed. Participation in this course and successful completion of the hands-on and written examinations fulfill the training requirements for registration as a Cross-Connection Control Tester in Wisconsin and for certification in several other states.