Onset, supplier of data loggers, has announced a new online professional training course on data loggers for performance monitoring.

Presented by energy consultant and educator Mark Stetz, P.E. of Stetz Consulting, LLC, the four-hour online course targets energy professionals looking to improve building commissioning and diagnostics capabilities, obtain better information during energy audits, and demonstrate the effectiveness of efficiency retrofits.

Students will learn how to identify necessary variables to measure for specific applications, deploy data loggers, and interpret collected data to understand building system behavior and identify problems.

Four GBCI (Green Building Certificate Institute) CE hours will be awarded upon completion of the course. Additionally, each student will receive a HOBO U12-012 Temperature/Humidity data logger and HOBOware graphing and analysis software as part of the course fee.

The online course will be held in two, 2-hour sessions on Tuesday, Oct. 12 and Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010.

Mark Stetz, P.E., CMVP, is principal and owner of Stetz Consulting LLC. His company provides energy-efficiency consulting services, energy audits, measurement and verification, economic analysis, and training. With over 15 years in the energy efficiency field, he has contributed to the IPMVP and FEMP measurement & verification protocols, supported the DOE FEMP performance contracting program, and conducted training workshops worldwide. Additionally, Stetz Consulting is a USGBC Education Provider and EPA Energy Star service provider.