Advanced BPA Course

Details

• ​Dates: July 22-26, 2024
• Daily Schedule 8:30am – 4:30pm
• Tuition: $650
• Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights Newark, NJ 07111

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Topics

This 40-hour course is designed to provide the skills for practitioners to successfully perform Footwear examinations. Topics will include:

• History
• Fundamentals of BPA
• Pattern Recognition and Classification
• Fluid Dynamics & Mechanisms
• Digital Image Examinations
• Mathematical Principles & Physics
• Standards, Best Practices, Experiment Design
• Complex patterns, distortion, and sequencing
• Target Surface factors
• BPA Reconstruction
• Bias, Error, Limitation, and Uncertainties
• Case law, Report writing & Courtroom Testimony

AGENDA

DAY 1

• 8:30am - 9:00am                 
  • OPENING COMMENTS & review of materials
• 9:00am - 10:00am               
  • Fundamentals of BPA revisited
• 10:00am – 11:00am           
  • Pattern recognition & Classifications
• 11:00am – 12:00pm           
  • Fluid dynamics & Mechanisms
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm               
  • LUNCH on own
• 1:00pm - 2:30pm                 
  • Mathematical Principles & Physics
• 2:30pm – 4:30pm                
  • Standards, Best Practices, Experiment design

DAY 2

• 8:30am - 10:00am               
  • Complex patterns, distortion, and sequencing
• 10:00am – 11:00am            
  • Environmental and target surface factors
• 11:00am – 12:00pm             
  • Target surface Exercises
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm               
  • LUNCH on own
• 1:00pm - 4:30pm                 
  • Documentation & Road Mapping

DAY 3

• 8:30am - 12:00am               
  • Chemical Testing and Enhancements
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm               
  • LUNCH on own
• 1:00pm - 4:30pm                 
  • BPA Reconstruction Exercises

DAY 4

• 8:30am - 12:00pm               
  • BPA Reconstruction Exercises
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm               
  • LUNCH on own
• 1:00pm - 4:30pm                 
  • Software modeling & Court Diagrams

DAY 5

• 8:30am - 9:00am                   
  • Bias, Error, Limitations, and Uncertainties
• 9:00am - 12:00pm               
  • Case Law, Report Writing & Courtroom Testimony, Moot Court
• 12:00pm - 1:00pm               
  • LUNCH together
• 1:00pm - 4:00pm                 
  • Written & Proficiency Test
• 4:00pm - 4:30pm                 
  • Certificates & Closing remarks

This course is designed in accordance with best practices and standards established by NIST-OSAC Bloodstain Pattern Analysis Sub-committee, IABPA, and other professional guidance organizations. Successful completion of this course may be used toward the IAI certification application or re-certification process.