Advanced BPA Course

A Course for Experienced Blood Stain Pattern Analysts

Prerequisite: Proof of Basic 40-Hour 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

Payment Options

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.