Roads Scholar Courses
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Students must earn eight credits to complete the LTAP Roads Scholar Program: three from required workshops and five from electives. Only training activities that satisfy the required subjects, topics, and training hours will be considered credit for this program.
Minnesota LTAP periodically adds new workshops, updates the content of existing workshops, and discontinues others. The number of credits awarded for a workshop, as well as the workshop status (required or elective), are subject to change. If a workshop changes from elective to required after you have already completed it, the credits will move to your required total.
Each workshop is worth one credit unless otherwise noted.
Required LTAP workshops (must earn three credits):
- Best Pavement Design Practices
- Bridge Maintenance: An Asset Management Approach
- Construction Contract Claims Avoidance/Mitigation
- Culvert Design, Installation, and Maintenance
- Erosion Control on Local Roads
- Erosion Control, Storm Water Basins, and Alternative Facilities
- Gravel Road Maintenance and Design (In-person workshop)
- Gravel Road Maintenance and Design (Online)
- Management and Maintenance Practices for Asphalt Pavement Preservation
- Micro/Slurry Surfacing: A Workshop for Practitioners (0.5 cr)
- Minnesota’s Best Practices for Traffic Sign Maintenance and Management
- Pavement Rehabilitation: Products, Processes, and Strategies
- Preventive Techniques for Public Works Equipment
- Reducing Risk and Liability
- Roadside Vegetation Management
- Seal Coat Operations (0.5 cr)
- Storm Water and Erosion Control for NPDES Education
- Stormwater Maintenance Strategies
- Traffic Signing and Control
- Work-Zone Safety, Temporary Traffic Control, and Flagging (0.5 cr)
Elective workshops and other events (must earn five credits):
LTAP workshops
- Best Practices: Corridor Management/Maintenance of Paved Trails (0.5 cr)
- Bike and Pedestrian Toolbox Training
- Concrete Pavement Rehabilitation (2 cr)
- Context-Sensitive Design for Local Governments
- Equipment Management for Public Works Managers
- Geosynthetics
- Hydraulic Design for Culverts and Storm Sewer
- Intersection Safety Solutions
- Mechanic Training (2 cr)
- Minnesota MUTCD Refresher Training (0.5 cr)
- MnDOT's Minnesota Snowplow and Safety Simulator Training for Local Agencies (0.5 cr)
- Motor Grader Operator Training
- NCITE Traffic and Transportation Engineering Symposium
- Utility Training for Locals
- Work-Zone Traffic Control Seminar (0.5 cr)
CTAP workshops (0.5 cr each)
- Asphalt Pavement Maintenance and Preservation
- Culvert Installation and Maintenance
- Gravel Road Maintenance/Dust Control
- Roadside Vegetation Management and Erosion Sediment Control
- Snow and Ice Control Material Application
- Snowplow Salt and Sander Controller Calibration Hands-on Workshop
- Work-Zone Traffic Control and Flagger Training
Maintenance expo (Two expo days = 1.0 cr)
Other Training
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