Stellar Technical Services Llc

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Withnearly 20 years of experience, Turnkey has successfully delivered professional services throughout the DOE Complex. Our recent clients include the Y-12 National Security Complex, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Centrus, Sandia National Laboratory, and various other federal and commercial clients nationwide.

Turnkey maintains a transportation fleet consisting of tractor semi-trailers, trained and qualified drivers, and equipment for transporting hazardous materials, including radioactive and explosive substances, as well as non-hazardous materials. Our dedicated team of professionals, including Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) drivers, mechanics, shippers, and technical staff, ensures the safe and secure transportation and disposal of radioactive contaminated waste.

For over 20 years, the Turnkey team has provided transportation services throughout the DOE footprint. Our members and management have developed and implemented procedures and processes for the disposition of waste generated for both on-site and off-site disposal.

Turnkey Sales offers preferred vendor relationships with unbeatable pricing and service on promotional and printed products, safety and industrial supplies, tooling, job site rentals and construction supplies, electrical supplies, and more.

We serve a diverse range of clients, from government agencies and private corporations to schools and athletic teams. Our small business set-aside status allows us to collaborate with large national vendors, offering products at better prices than they can get directly. Turnkey Sales partners with over 50 national vendors, providing supplies ranging from cleaning products to excavators. Our goal for every order is to deliver on time, with premium service and the best pricing available.

When it comes to your success, our online student support services are hard to match. We understand you are busy and when you need help we know you don't have time to go searching. That's why we offer you a variety of support to assist you in your courses. Click the links below to see the services we offer for technical support, online tutoring, online library support and if you live close and would like some face-to-face time, walk-in tutoring at any of our CSN Writing Center locations.

Taking classes online can sometimes feel as if you are alone and when you have technical issues with your computer or course, we are here to help twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Just call 702-651-4357!

Thousands of personalized one on one online tutoring hours have been used by CSN students through Smarthinking. Students easily access it by clicking on the Smarthinking menu tab of the course interface. The Smarthinking page will come up and you can begin. The tutorial videos below are from the Smarthinking website. Just click on the images to view the tutorials.

Please get in touch with Haunani Smith at haunani...@csn.edu to inquire about hours or trouble accessing Brainfuse. You may visit one of the Centers for Academic Success to learn how to use the 24/7 online tutoring service.

If you are online and need research assistance, you can chat with your librarians. Read the Library blog post, "Ask a Librarian: Even on a Sunday," which talks about chatting with an online librarian by clicking on the image below.

For many learners and instructors, the online world represents an alien learning environment. Most of you have been learning in the face-to-face classroom for a very long time and, as such, are very familiar with its particular structure. When you walk into the face-to-face classroom, you know to sit in one of the desks facing the board. You wait until the instructor arrives, sometimes chatting to other students. Occasionally, you may participate in group or class discussions by raising your hand; however, the constraints of space and time in addition to the instructor's presence at the front of the course neatly define the learning space.

Now, imagine that you can enter the classroom at any time day or night; however, there is never anyone else in the room and the only communication that occurs happens by writing on the board. When you enter the room, you can read messages that others have left on the board and leave your own messages. The course material exists in a pile for you to pick up and read. This second scenario remains analogous to the online environment and it can be very confusing for learners who have only experienced the face-to-face classroom.

It's our hope that this short, self-paced online course will help to eliminate some of this confusion. This module, in particular, will explore additional features of the online course environment at CSN and will introduce you to some of the skills needed to succeed in that environment.

It is a common misperception that online courses take less time per week than face-to-face courses. In actuality, online courses often require a substantial time commitment. Although the amount of time required for an online course varies, it's a good rule of thumb to allocate about 10 to 12 hours per week per online course. You should expect the following from your online course:

Some online courses are self-paced, meaning that learners can complete the materials on their own schedule as long as they are finished by the conclusion of the semester. However, most online courses will be facilitated by an instructor and require that learners adhere to a course schedule for readings, assignments, and discussions with other learners. It will be important for your success to adhere to this schedule so you can contribute to discussions and group projects in meaningful ways. Your presence in the course will only be apparent if you participate!

Whether you need to come to campus is up to the instructor. You may be required to attend an off-campus event (such as attending a musical performance or an in-class presentation or testing at a testing center). Your instructor should give you notice of these events in the syllabus or other course materials. Please go to the library website to learn of online library services available for distance education students.

Most instructors can be contacted through email in the course and may answer questions in the discussion forum. In order to better communicate with learners, some instructors may even create a Questions and Answers topic within the discussion forum. Your instructor will advise you about their preferred mode of communication in the course syllabus. Some instructors will give you an outside email address or telephone contact to use in emergencies.

Your instructor's policy for late work will appear in the syllabus; this should also outline the timeframe for when you can expect work to be graded or receive an email response from your instructor. For instance, your instructor may state that he or she will return email within 48 hours except on weekends and will grade assignments within seven business days.

Now that you have learned some of what you can expect during an online course, you might be wondering how you can succeed in the online course environment. Much has been written about the characteristics that make some learners successful. The list below represents a compilation of the most common features of successful online learners and some of the best practices that can lead to success (Illinois Online Network, 2002).

Possess self-motivation and self-discipline: Since the online environment lacks much of the structure present in the face-to-face classroom, learners must exercise real commitment when adhering to deadlines.

Be proficient with time management: Frequently, learners decide to take online courses because they do not have the time to attend class in person. To be successful online, learners must carve out time from family and work commitments to spend on their studies. The following links provide additional information on time management:

Meet technical requirements: Most programs list technical requirements for taking a course; these usually include modem and hardware requirements. Adhering to these requirements will prevent computer difficulties later in the course.

Be able to communicate through writing: Moving from the face-to-face classroom to the online environment involves a corresponding transition from the spoken to the written word. Online learners should be fairly comfortable expressing themselves in writing. Many online courses also require a great deal of reading in the course site. The following links will give you additional information about writing and reading skills.

So many awards programs in the Pro AV industry recognize new products and technologies. (At SCN, for example, we have our upcoming Installation Product Awards at InfoComm, as well as the Pro AV Best in Market, which we share with other Future B2B properties.) That's why the SCN Stellar Service Awards are so special. They provide an opportunity to recognize excellent service and the manufacturers, distributors, and integrators that deliver it.

As in years past, we received thousands of votes from you, our readers, to determine the winners of the 2024 Stellar Service Awards. Thank you for your participation. We now proudly present your exceptional service providers.

Extron offers a wide selection of system design tools, including system builders, design guides, online calculators, and technical resources to help AV professionals design their ideal systems and select just the right products. In addition, Extron system design engineers are available to work with integrators to provide system design support and technical troubleshooting services to system integrators throughout the project lifecycle, from sales to system installation and commissioning.

Liang Chen founded Stellar Services more than 30 years ago and, since then, has been instrumental in transforming the business into a thriving Information Technology services firm that serves federal, state and local government clients, as well as commercial and non-profit clients, located throughout the US.

Liang has been at the helm of Stellar Services since the company's founding in 1993. He understands his clients' IT infrastructure challenges and, in response, formed and leads a team that has developed a broad range of superior IT Infrastructure Support, Program Management, Enterprise Content Management, and Systems Integration services and solutions.

A graduate of prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University, Liang also holds a Masters in Operations Research from Western Michigan University. Before starting Stellar, he worked at Louis Berger International, Inc., and the Ebasco Division of Raytheon Engineering and Constructors, Inc. He became experienced at these companies in implementing project control and management systems, and earned a reputation as an employee with an acute business sense and a timely delivery of projects within budget.

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