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AN INVITATION TO AUTHORS LAST UPDATED JANUARY 25TH, 2022

PDH SunCam LLC. is a popular source of continuing education training for
engineers providing over 60,000 hours of training per year.

As we continue to grow, we are always seeking experienced engineering
professionals and qualified engineering educators to author continuing education
courses. If you would like to become a SunCam author, or wish to explore a
course idea, please contact us at SunCam@suncam.com


ROYALTIES

We offer generous royalties to authors of continuing education courses and we
continue to pay those royalties for as long as the course is offered. Payments
are made monthly in US dollars no later than the 15th of the following month.
Our Authors have earned over $2 million in royalty payments from SunCam.

We will pay the royalties to one or more individuals, a partnership, a
corporation, a trustee or an assign. If you have another idea or request, we
will be happy to consider it. Payments are made monthly in US dollars no later
than the 15th of the following month. Payments to non-US authors are converted
from US dollars and paid in the foreign currency by USForex.


SUNCAM'S DUTIES

For our share of the revenue we perform the following duties:

 1.  Secure agency approvals for courses (where required),
 2.  Host the courses on our web site,
 3.  Market the courses to professionals worldwide,
 4.  Process orders,
 5.  Score the tests,
 6.  Issue certificates of completion,
 7.  Report results to licensing boards where allowed or required,
 8.  Maintain an archive of course completion records,
 9.  Report royalties to authors in real time for each sale,
 10. Pay monthly royalties to authors,


AGREEMENT

We have a draft "Course Author Agreement" prepared that may answer some of your
questions about the business arrangement. The copy now posted has been reviewed
by our attorneys and is the same wording as the final version that we will send
you. You can view the draft agreement at
https://www.suncam.com/Author-Agreement-Draft.pdf?.

NOTE: SunCam will prepare final agreements including any adaptations required
for multiple authors, corporations, trusts etc.


COPYRIGHTS

Your course belongs to you and SunCam will make no claim of copyright or
ownership for your work-product. The Author Agreement described above only
grants SunCam the exclusive right to distribute your course, not ownership. If
your course materials have been copyrighted by others through publication or
otherwise, it will be your responsibility to obtain a written release to offer
the course on SunCams web site.


QUALIFICATIONS

We seek design and construction licensed professionals, educators, and others
qualified by education and experience in the subject matter of the course they
propose. A biography demonstrating solid training in your field and professional
licensure or advanced degrees combined with extensive experience or research in
the course's subject matter is required. Your biography must support the subject
matter of the class. If your degree and license are in structural engineering,
we will be reluctant to allow you to publish a course in electrical or
mechanical engineering unless you have extensive paid professional experience in
those fields. Course documents must be well written in English. SunCam will pay
royalties in US dollars. Payments to non-US authors are converted from US
dollars and paid in the foreign currency by USForex. Otherwise, we have no
restrictions on the physical location or nationality of the author.


COURSE TOPICS

Courses on business management, insurance, marketing or self improvement topics
will not be accepted.


PLANNING

You may have only one course in mind but our general advice to course authors is
to plan and outline a series of courses on the selected topic starting with a
broad, general overview and progressing to more detailed, specific and/or
advanced coverage of a subject. A logical series of course releases will build a
following for your work and increase your royalties.

We will happily take new courses as you produce them on your schedule. One a
month or one every year or two works just fine for us. When we post your first
course, we will also list your future courses on your web page to solicit
comments and inquiries from customers.


COURSE GUIDELINES

Courses may be in an advanced subject or fundamentals. The individual courses
may be any length (one hour=50 minutes). The courses may include text, photos
and illustrations (but generally not video) (see table below for course duration
guidelines). If you make extensive use of photos and illustrations then more
pages per hour will be necessary. We will convert the course documents to Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) when we post them on the web site.

Course duration (PDHs) Approximate Number of Pages (Text and Illustrations)
Minimum Number of Test Questions 1 10-20 10 2 15-30 15 3 25-40 20 4 35-50 25 5
45-60 30 6 55-70 35 7 65-80 40 8 75-90 45

SunCam will be the final judge of course duration and PDH assignments

View a checklist for course authors at https://www.suncam.com/Checklist.pdf.

Other than the final conversion to PDF format the Author will be responsible for
the authoring, editing and finished layout of the course materials. SunCam will
only accept courses that are well written, edited to perfection and presented in
a professional layout. If you have mathematical formulas in your course
materials we will insist that you present them using the mathematics formatting
similar to "Equation Formatting" in Microsoft Word.

If you need some help with the final proofreading and editing, you are not
alone. Many of our authors are skilled in their own technical subject but don't
particularly enjoy the rigors of writing. We will make every effort to refer you
to an independent, professional copy-editor that you may retain (at your
expense) to help you with this final step.


TEST QUESTIONS

The test can be true/false or multiple choice (any number of choices). Please
use true/false questions sparingly. The minimum number of questions for the test
will be 10-questions for the first hour and 5-questions for each additional
hour. Each question must include an "explanation" that will give customers an
idea of why they got the question wrong. The explanations are only revealed to
customers after they pass the test. A sample of our online tests (without
explanations) may be found at the web page for any of our courses.

We highly recommend that you save writing the test to last. Most course
documents will go through extensive editing and if you write the questions too
soon you could end up editing out the answer. We also require that the question
sequence match the sequence of the course document.


YOUR WEB PAGE

Within the SunCam store, we will develop a web page for you and your course
offerings. Typically, your page will include your photo and biography followed
by a listing of courses.

By clicking on the course name, a customer will be able to read your description
of the course. In addition to the description, there will be links to open the
complete course document and a test worksheet listing all the questions. The
course documents will be in an Adobe Acrobat format, restricted to prohibit
copying or editing.

Anyone will be able to read the course without paying (similar to having your
published work on the shelves of a public library) but no continuing education
credits will be awarded unless the course is purchased and completed
successfully.

Authors will also have the option to make brief promotional mention of their own
commercial enterprise or that of their employers or books they have published.


COURSE RATINGS

Customers will be asked to rate your course using a 5-star system similar to
Amazon.com and to leave comments. The ratings and comments will be emailed to
you and to SunCam immediately. After approval, will be available to other
customers to help them make their decision about course purchases. Courses on
popular topics that are entertaining, informative and carefully crafted get high
ratings, positive comments and many customers. Courses that get poor ratings
will be discontinued.


PASSWORDS

We control access to tests with a password and username system for creating a
unique URL for each course purchased by a customer. The customer selects one or
more course(s) and adds them to their shopping cart. When they checkout, they
receive an email with their unique URL for logging into each course that they
have selected. The email also contains links to the course document, a test
worksheet and a link for emailing the author if they have a question about
course content.

The test login screen asks for name and email address. Customers may leave the
test and login again at any time using the same unique URL. Once the test is
successfully completed, the URL is disabled to prevent further use.

When the customer completes the test and clicks on the "Submit" button, the test
is instantly scored. When the customer receives a passing score, a certificate
of completion (along with their detailed results and question explanations) is
displayed and emailed to the address that was provided at login. The detailed
results are emailed to SunCam and the author and recorded in our database. All
information including the details of the test answers is collected in our
database for archiving.


AUTOMATION

At SunCam, customer and author inquiries get our personalized attention but
everything else is automated. Our goal is to make everything from publication
through purchase and course completion completely automated so customers and
authors never have to ask for anything. When a question does arise one of the
SunCam owners will be available (usually within minutes during extended business
hours) to answer it.


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