Fall 2008 Courses

Course #1
Heat Treatment of Steels

10/01/08 to 11/19/08
Wednesday nights at Rice University, 7PM-9PM

Mechanical Laboratory Room 251

10/1
  • Steel and Its Mechanical Properties

10/8
  • Microstructure & Mechanical Properties
  • Austenite & Its Transformation & Classifications

10/15
  • Annealing and Normalizing Steel
  • Hardening of Steel

10/22
  • Steels and Quenching of Media and Equipment
  • Tempering of Steel

10/29
  • Types and Construction of Heat Treating Furnaces
  • Furnace Atmospheres

11/5
  • Vacuum Heat Processing
  • Surface Hardening

11/12
  • Induction Heat Treatment
  • Difficulties & Imperfections in Heat Treated Steel

11/19
  • Heat Treatment of Tool Steels
  • Constitution & Heat Treatment of Stainless Steels

Who Should Enroll: Mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineers, metallurgists, machine shop superintendents and managers in heat treating operations and individuals requiring an understanding of heat treatments. Heat Treatment of Steel is a comprehensive course that covers practical heat treating of carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steels. In this course, there is additional emphasis on process applications, including valuable information on atmosphere control, quenching, temperature control and the type of equipment that is proper for different types of heat treating operations.

Course #2
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist

10/2/08 to 11/20/08
Thursday nights at Rice University, 7PM-9PM

Mechanical Laboratory Room 251

10/2
  • Metals: A History

10/9
  • Extractive Metallurgy
  • Solidification of Metals

10/16
  • Metal Forming
  • Mechanical Properties and Their Measurements

10/23
  • Steels and Cast Irons: Applications and Metallurgy
  • Heat Treatment of Steel

10/30
  • Case Hardening of Steel
  • Strengthening Mechanisms

11/6
  • Nonferrous Metals
  • Joining

11/13
  • Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
  • Quality Control and Failure Analysis

11/20
  • Materials Characterization and the Selection Process

Who Should Enroll: Metal processing personnel, machine shop superintendents, QA managers, heat treating operators and managers, component designers, technicians, marketing writers and individuals without a materials background wishing to better understand the role of materials science. This course provides understandings of what metals are, how they behave and why they behave differently than non-metallic. This course will show how metals processed to yield desired properties.

Registration Information

  • Make checks payable to ASM International Houston Chapter. Mail checks to:
    • Paul Kovach
      Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
      13800 Westfair East Drive
      Houston, TX 77041
      (281) 955-2900
  • Tax deduction for all expenses of continuing education (including registration fee, travel, meals and lodging) undertaken to maintain and improve professional skills. (Tres. Reg. 1-167-5)

    • Course Fees:

    • $350.00 ASM Members and Chapter Sustaining Member’s Employees
    • $400.00 Non-ASM Members
    • Both prices include bound lessons.
    Courses to be held at Rice University
    Mechanical Laboratory Room 251