Fall 2009 Courses

Course #1
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist

9/30/09 to 11/18/09
Wednesday nights at Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
7PM-9PM

9/30
  • Metals: A History

10/7
  • Extractive Metallurgy
  • Solidification of Metals

10/14
  • Metal Forming
  • Mechanical Properties and Their Measurements

10/21
  • Steels and Cast Irons: Applications and Metallurgy
  • Heat Treatment of Steel

10/28
  • Case Hardening of Steel
  • Strengthening Mechanisms

11/4
  • Nonferrous Metals
  • Joining

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

11/18
  • 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 are processed to yield desired properties.

Course #2
Stainless Steels

10/01/09 to 11/19/09
Thursday nights at Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
7PM-9PM

10/01
  • Introduction
10/8
  • Physical Metallurgy
  • Properties of Austenite Stainless Steels
10/15
  • Properties of Martensitic and Ferritic SS
  • Heat and Corrosion Resistant Cast Steels
10/22
  • Properties of Precipitation Hardening SS
  • Heat Treating
10/29
  • Forging, Machining, Cleaning, and Finishing
  • Cold Forming
11/5
  • Deep Drawing
  • Metallurgy of Welding
11/12
  • Joining
  • Corrosion of Metals
11/19
  • Corrosion Resistance
  • Stainless Steels at High Temperatures

Who Should Enroll: Designers, technicians, fabricators, engineers, process engineers, maintenance engineers, and individuals involved in materials related matters requiring an understanding of stainless steels. Stainless steels have emerged as one of the more important man-made materials, designed for strength, corrosion resistance, and ease of fabrication. Continued growth in the use of stainless steels provides an incentive to understand their properties, processing, and response to various fabrication routes.

Registration Information

New Location in Northwest Houston
(near 290 and Eldridge)
Stress Engineering Services, Inc.
Conference Center, Building #2,
13610 Westland East Blvd, Houston, TX 77449

Course Fees:

  • $400.00 ASM Members and Chapter Sustaining Member’s Employees
  • $475.00 Non-ASM Members
  • Both prices include bound lessons.

New Location in Northwest Houston (near 290 and Eldridge)

Stress Engineering Services, Inc. Conference Center, Building #2,

13610 Westland East Blvd, Houston, TX 77449