Nine new in-company training courses scheduled to start in July 2002

ASME will offer nine new courses for the upcoming year that will be available for in-company training starting in July 2002. As soon as these new courses have been scheduled for the public, they will be posted on ASME's Web site at www.asme.org.

Introduction to Piping Systems and Process Equipment (PD410) is a three-day course that carries 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 21 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).

In this course, engineers, designers and construction personnel will be introduced to piping and plant layout. Participants will learn how to interpret piping arrangement drawings, equipment specifications and drawings, piping specifications, instrumentation and piping supports, and fabrication isometrics.

This three-day course will give attendees the background required to complete piping detail drawings. The cost is $955 for ASME members and $1,055 for nonmembers.

The instructor, Bob Wilson, is president of R.B. Wilson & Associates Ltd., a practicing piping engineering consultant and retired college professor. He has published a textbook on piping design and layout. For the past 25 years, Wilson has designed and delivered piping courses to industry. He is a former chairman of ASME's Ontario Section.

Turbulence Modeling for Industrial Applications (PD411) will present a concise overview of commonly used turbulence models for solutions of turbulent flows of interest in industrial applications using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

The goal of this course is to provide the basis for selection of an appropriate turbulence model for a particular flow problem, while maintaining acceptable accuracy.

The two-day course will earn attendees 1.4 CEUs or 14 PDHs. The cost is $695 for members and $795 for nonmembers.

This course will be taught by Ismail B. Celik, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia University in Morgantown. From 1980-85, Celik worked at the Institute of Hydromechanics at the University of Karls-ruhe in Germany under the leadership of Wolfgang Rodi. Since 1985, Celik has taught and conducted research at West Virginia. An active member of ASME for more than 13 years, he was the leader of the Coordinating Group for Computational Fluid Dynamics of ASME's Fluids Engineering Division.

Combustion, Thermal Systems and Air Pollution Control (PD414) will focus on combustion and air pollution control systems and the interactions between the two. It covers all related existing and new regulations and is paced to inform engineers at various levels about developments in the field.

The instructors' practical experience will be useful in presenting applications that are successful within an industry that has a myriad of regulations. The goal of the course is to promote safe and economical operation.

The course is taught by Tom McGowan, P.E., who has worked for 25 years in engineering of thermal systems and air pollution control. He is president of TMTS Associates Inc., an engineering consulting firm specializing in combustion, air pollution control, thermal treatment systems, industrial ventilation and solids handling.

The three-day course will earn attendees 2.1 CEUs or 21 PDHs. The cost is $695 for ASME members and $795 for nonmembers.

For an overview of macro plant layouts and a detailed procedure for designing cellular-based layouts that will help companies convert to the kind of lean manufacturing that was made popular by the Japanese auto industry, sign up for Lean Manufacturing: Designing Manufacturing Cells (PD415).

By becoming lean, companies will reduce inventories, shorten manufacturing cycle times and lessen order-to-ship lead times. This course is enhanced by the presentation of practical shop floor conditions by an experienced practitioner and trainer.

Edward Phillips, P.E., is president of the Sims Consulting Group Inc., an internationally recognized management and engineering consulting firm. Phillips earned his B.S.M.E., magna cum laude, from Villanova University and his M.B.A. from Widener University.

He has more than 14 years of project management experience with SCG and an additional 20 years in industrial and manufacturing engineering, computer systems, plant and warehouse layout, and logistics.

Phillips is past chairman of ASME's Materials Handling Division and the Central Ohio Section.

This three-day course carries 2.1 CEUs or 21 PDHs. The cost is $955 for ASME members and $1,055 for nonmembers.

An understanding of The Application of Standards in Boiler, Pressure Vessels and Piping Codes (PD416) will allow the use of standards, such as B16, ASTM, MSS and others, that are separate and stand-alone product or component definitions. Their use is an extremely important aspect of bringing any project into compliance with a particular code. But, each is constantly being reviewed, changed and reintroduced.

The two-day course will be taught by Phillip Ellenberger, P,E,, who is currently vice president of engineering at WFI. He has a B.S.M.E. from Iowa State University and is a Life Member of ASME.

He currently is active on the following committees: B16 F&C subcommittees, B31.3 design task group, B31 Mechanical Design Committee and Fabrication Committee, MSS chairman of Coordinating Committee and Committee 113 IS member of WG 10 SC67. He has taught piping stress analysis at the University of Houston, seminars on B31. 3 and other related subjects.

The course will earn participants 1.4 CEUs or 14 PDHs. The cost is $695 for ASME members and $795 for nonmembers.

Increasing world population, a rising standard of living, the depletion of fuel resources and a deteriorating environment provide the impetus in today's society for the search for a cost-effective energy source.

Until that all-important discovery is made, the burning of fossil fuels will continue as scientists and engineers face the challenge of designing a more efficient system, one producing lower emissions at a lower cost.

That scenario sets the stage for Thermoecomonics: Efficiency versus Cost (PD417), a two-day course that will focus on an improved way of designing energy-intensive systems and the analysis involved in such a process.

Yehia M. El-Sayed served as a professor of mechanical engineering at various institutions, such as Assiut University in Egypt and MIT. He is a fellow of ASME and has founded Advanced Energy Systems Analysis, a company offering consulting services and analytical studies on energy-related problems.

The two-day course will earn attendees 1.4 CEUs or 14PDHs. The cost is $695 for ASME members and $795 for nonmembers.

Computational Thermal Analysis (PD418) is a critical discipline that drives all stages of the engineering design process. It has evolved as a subdiscipline of engineering analogous to CFD.

Most designs tend to begin and end with a thermal analysis of some sort. In the past, this was done without the aid of the computer; for example, shape factor analysis, electrical field analogy and experiments. With the advent of modern desktop computers, thermal analysis can now be performed computationally and with a high degree of fidelity.

The course will be taught by Dean S. Schrage, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and his doctorate in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently working at the NASA Glenn Research Center, supporting the Microgravity Sciences Division.

Schrage has worked almost exclusively in applied research and development in the field of thermal and fluid management — a combined experience totaling 15 years.

Those who take the two-day course will earn 1.4 CEUs or 14 PDHs. The cost is $695 for ASME members and $795 for nonmembers.

In today's increasingly competitive market, a company operation that cannot deliver a high-quality product on time and within budget will miss profit objectives, lose customers and potentially go out of business.

Two management skills courses are available to help attendees avert that scenario: Winning Operations Management Skills (PD419), a three-day course equal to 2.1 CEUs or 21 PDHs, and How To Find The Path to Become A World Class Performer (PD420), a one-day course equal to 0.7 CEU or seven PDHs. Winning Operations Management Skills costs $995 for ASME members and $1,095 for nonmembers. The cost for ÒHow to Find the Path ÉÓ is $395 for members and $495 for nonmembers.

The key individual in running a successful business is the operations manager. PD419 can provide the skills necessary to become a winning operations manager.

Small business owners or future owners, managers evaluated by profit and loss results, and anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of creating an optimum approach to business success can benefit from this course.

Reviewing and evaluating the seven step investigation points for both production and service provide companies a method of analyzing their own performance.

Both of these courses will be taught by Daniel T. Koenig, P.E., a consultant for manufacturing technologies, systems and organizations. He is the author of two books that describe the process of improving capabilities by evaluating performance of factory operations and implementing improvement programs. He is also an instructor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and is a former president of ASME (1995-96).

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