CEI to offer short courses during conferences

Jack Raplee
ASME NEWS

Beginning this spring, the Continuing Education Institute will be putting a new face on its short courses. For the first time during National Manufacturing Week — scheduled to take place March 18-21 in Chicago — ASME's CEI Short Courses will be offered.

Following that, short courses will be offered during the Joint ASME European Fluids Conference, which will be held July 14-18 in Montreal.

Working with the staff of the Council on Engineering, CEI identified conferences that would be best suited to short courses and conducted e-mail surveys of a sample of people in each division to identify course topics.

According to Shaun Fletcher, manager of ASME's Continuing Education department, the courses allow flexibility in that CEI is not limited to its current slate of short courses and these courses will not require the commitment of an entire day.

Because these short courses are slated to take place during conferences, CEI has modified the time format so attendees can attend both the courses and the conferences. Stand-alone short courses usually run two to three days. However, these courses will be broken down into two- to three-hour segments, making them easier to fit into an attendee's schedule than a daylong class.

CEI will offer three short courses during Manufacturing Week: "Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing," "Lean Manufacturing" and "Fracture Mechanics." At the Joint ASME European Fluids Conference in July, short courses in fluids will be offered.

The Continuing Education Institute plans to send out surveys to help identify short course needs at future conferences into next year, including the PVP conference and ICONE.
Short course participant evaluations will also provide useful information on these offerings, as will attendee profiles. Short courses, which are designed to be practical and job-related, will continue to be taught by subject-matter experts who are generally practicing engineers.

For more information on these or any other short courses, contact Shaun Fletcher at (212) 591-7161 or via e-mail at fletchers @asme.org.

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