ExpertRating Online ThemePark Engineering Course -$99.99

Give wings to your creativity through this easy to learn and interesting course.

Theme Parks may have mechanical rides, shows, and refreshment stands. Through the Theme Park Engineering course you will learn about design, how to structure stories, ride control, show control, audio, video, acoustics, lighting, mechanics, hydraulics, figure animation, merchandising, and even food service. You will also learn about making models and special effects. You will also learn how to design your own theme park and its attractions.

There is no formal education required before taking this course nor do you require being a mathematician or a computer program. In fact, this course is designed to hone your creative skills and anyone with a creative bent of mind can opt for this course. The ExpertRating Theme Park Engineering Certification course will guide you by giving you some career advice and giving you ideas on how to find jobs in theme parks.

ExpertRating Online Theme Park Engineering Course Coverage (6 weeks program)

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

This first lesson is about people, because people are a theme park's most important asset. It takes people to create a theme park, and that's what this class is about. But it also takes people to operate a theme park: to run the rides, keep them working, keep it clean, and keep it stocked with interesting merchandise and palatable food. As a theme park engineer, you'll need to design your park with these people in mind. In a sense, they're your customers. If they can't run their park efficiently, you haven't done your job right. Of course, there's an even more important group of people: Your guests. Everything you put into your theme park needs to be designed with them in mind. Your theme park must lure them in—and keep them coming back—or there will be no one to pay the bills! So the first lesson will look at each of these groups of people. By understanding each of them, you'll be able to design a better park. In the discussion area for this lesson, you'll introduce yourselves and talk about your favorite attractions.

Friday - Lesson 02

When people think of theme parks, the first things they think of are attractions. Everyone has his or her favorites. This lesson will look at all the different types of attractions: Gravity Rides, Dark Rides, Boat Rides, Simulators, Theaters, even food service and merchandising. By the end of this lesson, you'll have assembled the complete palette you'll use to paint your own theme park. In the discussion area for this lesson, you'll each begin to create your own attraction. What's your passion? Roller coasters, theater, cooking, science fiction, history? It's time to start brainstorming your perfect ride!

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

This lesson will look at the early stages of design, from blue sky through initial story creation, then the process of fitting the story to your intended audience and finally trying to figure out whether it fits within the real world's design constraints. In the discussion area for this lesson, you'll begin polishing your attraction idea, and trying to sell it to "management!"

Friday - Lesson 04

This lesson moves forward in time to the next step after an attraction concept is approved. It's the last completely right-brain stage in the process, before the whole can of worms gets dumped into the engineers' cubicles and you start picking them out of your keyboards. In the discussion area, you'll talk about the creative team's efforts to firm up your attraction so that the physical design can begin.

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05-

This lesson is going to sprint through nearly all of the phases of a major theme park project, from initial concept through the early stages of design and construction, then installation and test, and finally a (hopefully!) grand opening to the public. At the end of this lesson, you'll have an appreciation for the many diverse people who work on theme parks. Perhaps you'll see yourself in one of these roles. If so, that's a great clue to what your own involvement in theme parks might be as a career. In the discussion area, you'll plan out all the activities that you'll need to get your attraction to opening day. Later when this lesson finishes, you'll see how close you came to following this game plan!

Friday - Lesson 06

This lesson will survey the different engineering disciplines and describe, in general terms, what they do. Then, the rest of the course will take a detailed look at each of those engineering specialties, and you'll see how they impact your attraction. Speaking of your attraction, it had better be pretty well defined at this point! As engineers, you're going to start spending money on some rather large, expensive things—buildings, for example—and it's going to get progressively more expensive to make creative changes. So take off your funny looking creative hat (the one with the moose antlers), and put on your hardhat. You're headed for the construction site. In the discussion area, you'll try to spot all the technical challenges that may come your way as you design the inner workings of your attraction.

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

You've arrived at the meat of the course. The appetizers and salad were fun, but now you've got some real work to do. In this lesson, you'll put on your Show Control Engineer's (hard) hat and get down to the real work of designing a theme park attraction. This lesson's discussion area is a great place to talk about the show control challenges your attraction team faces.

Friday - Lesson 08

Q: Who is the first passenger on a theme park ride? A: A sandbag. There are a number of reasons for this. Sandbags have very low health insurance costs. Sandbags look better wearing shorts than the average theme park guest. And sandbags can't sue you. In this lesson, you'll discover why all of those characteristics are important in the world of the Ride Control Engineer. How will you control this ride of yours? Tell it in the discussion area.

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

Lesson 9 will leave behind the pressures of Ride Control Engineering and venture into the world of Audio/Video Engineering. The discussion area for this lesson will provide you with a forum to describe the sights and sounds of your attractions, and to identify any special challenges they present.

Friday - Lesson 10

Now that your designs are complete, your equipment fabricated, and it's been shipped to the field and installed (hopefully in the right place), the big moment has arrived! Every resource you can bring to bear must head for the field as you plunge into the turbulent sea of test and adjust. In this lesson, you'll meet the other members of the technical team as they struggle to ready the attraction for opening day. In the discussion area, you can give everyone a peek into the beehive of activity your attraction has become.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

This lesson is going to put it all together. It will start by looking at the history of theme parks, beginning with the granddaddy of them all, Disneyland. Next it will look at why building a theme park is a lot like building a city—only more so. Then this lesson will sweat the details—all those real world issues about site planning, infrastructure and services that your guests want to know nothing about. And finally, this lesson will bring things full circle by finishing that theme park design you started way back in your first lesson. In this week's assignment, you're going to play the role of billionaire eccentric and create an entire theme park just the way it suits you. What will your theme park be like? Will it be educational, exciting, emotionally involving, tasty, fun? It's up to you! As they say in the trade, "The money cannons are loaded."

Friday - Lesson 12

Before the vehicle comes to a stop, take out your binoculars, your microscope, and your crystal ball and take a look around. With your binoculars, you'll survey the wide world of themed entertainment and find out what other markets there are besides theme parks. With your microscope, you'll take a closer look yourselves and see where you might fit into the themed entertainment job sector. More important, you'll discuss some strategies for getting that job. And finally, with your crystal ball, you'll gaze into the future of themed entertainment to see where it's headed, and even make a few wishes.

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