Heat Treat Educational Opportunities

July 24, 2020 / FEATURED NEWS, HEAT TREAT NEWS INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTURING HEAT TREAT, MEDICAL HEAT TREAT

In the wake of COVID-19, suppliers and manufacturers in the heat treat industry has found ways to educate and convene with one another using digital classes, seminars, conferences and more. This Heat Treat Learning article highlights some of the most prominent events which you can attend from your home or office. The list features events by date.

If you have attended or will be attending an online event, please consider emailing the editors at editor@heattreattoday.com or bethany@heattreattoday.com to share your impressions of the event value.

Classes and Webinars

Fractography and Fracture Analysis: History and Development: Tuesday July 28, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

(photo source: Wynn Pointaux from Pixabay.com)

This free webinar will explore the background of fractography and fracture analysis with Daniel Grice, P.E. Senior Engineer and Larry D. Hanke, P.E., FASM, Principal Engineer Materials Evaluation and Engineering Inc. The event, supported by ASM International, is intended to help anyone who is interested in learning more about material behavior. Read more and register here.

How Verification of Medical Device Surfaces in Production Eases Product Development: Wednesday July 29, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Operating in different time-zones and featuring a recording to any participant who signs up, this free webinar intends to help metallurgical technicians, engineers, quality control and laboratory managers better understand their surface coatings. The webinar, supported by Buehler, will mainly be focusing on preparation challenges and approaches to achieve good quality, efficient preparation, accurate measurement and correct evaluation of these coatings. Read more and register here.

Elizabeth Kidd, Materials Scientist and **Lucas Dillingham**, Senior Applications Specialist at BTG Labs

Surface Coatings; Metallographic Preparation & Analysis: Wednesday July 29, 2020, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

This event targets medical device manufacturers concerned with verification of cleaning, coating, sealing, printing, or bonding. BTG Labs is making this webinar available for free. The speakers are Elizabeth Kidd, Materials Scientist and Lucas Dillingham, Senior Applications Specialist at BTG Labs. Read more and register here.

Heat Treatment 4.0 e-SEMINAR: Wednesday September 9, 2020, 3:00 – 6:00 P.M CET

This international event, conducted in English, features 9 hours of content over a 3 hour period with three topical meeting rooms. Recordings of the event will be made available to all participants for a short time following the event. The site claims that this will be the “first industry virtual meeting of international specialists” including both practitioners and scientists. Additionally, the seminar will serve as a platform to interchange ideas and technologies, share expert experience, and discuss industry in the current times. Hosting this event is SECO/WARWICK. For specific details on the event, read more and here.

ASM Virtual Classrooms: Continual

These online courses listings provide self-guided classes provide professional development opportunities to any students of metallurgy. With quizzes and a final examination, these courses provide certificates of completion for passing (80% or above) the course requirements. A few attributes that one may see in classes are flash animations, video of instructors teaching the course in a classroom, video segments from ASM's DVD series, and PDF's of instructor PowerPoints used in the instructor led trainings. Among course offerings are the Basics of Heat Treat, Component Failure Analysis, and short courses on topics like corrosion. For more details on how to enroll, read more and register here.

Online Opportunities

Not all learning has to be done in a cohort, although community does provide great motivation and a sense of accomplishment. Here is a selection of alternative digital information outlets to access while you are on the go or at home.

Blogs: For the readers

TAV: The Vacuum Furnaces Blog - "Perfect Vacuum Sintering Step by Step [3/4]." Part of a larger series, you can find more via the referenced articles internally linked in this article.
D an Herring's articles. Check out most heat treat news sources and you are sure to find them.
Ipsen's The Herald. Also, be sure to check out their white papers on their website.

Podcasts: For the drivers

Heat Treat Radio: Re-envisioning your international business? Interested in harnessing the research power of Worchester Polytechnic Institute? Here is just one outlet while you are on your daily drive.

Videos: For the entertainers

Heat Treat Marketing Minute: For advertisers, learn a new skill, hone your marketing technique, use more color in your advertising... all here at Heat Treat Today. Check in with Doug in his commentary on ROI.

MetallurgyData with Neil Hardy: You may remember the young producer of metallurgical content, Neil Hardy. Links to his YouTube and some background on the project can be accessed here.

Tom Ott's LinkedIn videos: Scan LinkedIn and you will find Tom Ott's videos, which come in handy for the tech savvy heat treater.

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Heat Treat Learning: Principles of Heat Treatment

Neil Hardy, Metallurgical Specialist and Creator of MetallurgyData (photo source: Neil Hardy)

In this Heat Treat Learning special, metallurgical technician and specialist Neil Hardy at MetallurgyData shares about the background of developing his educational video endeavors for people in the heat treat industry. This information was taken from an interview with Heat Treat Today and has been curated for educational purposes. This video is a part of Heat Treat TV.

Heat Treat Learning is a series of curated pieces for Heat Treat Today's audience, intended to aid end-users in their continual professional development. If you have a piece that you believe might be helpful on this platform, email any of our editors with your information and we will be in touch. Our contact info is Bethany Funk - bethany@heattreattoday.com, Karen Ganzter - karen@heattreattoday.com, or editors at editor@heattreattoday.com.

Back to the Basics: Heat Treatment Types, Processes and Structures

This "back to the basics" video demonstrates the different outcomes of heat treatment types, processes, and structures. In it, the video offers clear parameters for how and why different heat treating methods matter for particular metals and for intended outcomes. It is provided by MetallurgyData, a global informational training platform based on providing metallurgical principles to aid understanding for application.

MetallurgicalData produces educational content, as well as topics of interest. "I am currently producing a video that follows the process of me replicating my late father’s wedding ring. He died at the age that I am now so this project has quite a lot of emotion associated with it for me," the creator of the platform, Neil Hardy, said, "This will be video-graphic ad show the process of making the ring while the other will be based around the science of each stage of the process including, melting, casting and forging."

About MetallurgyData and Neil Hardy

In 2005, Neil Hardy, a Metallurgical Specialist, gained his bachelor’s degree in material engineering while working in lab and testing settings. Continuing to work at an international steel company before finally arriving in 2010 at a UK forge, Neil's experience has been continuously focused on the cutting edge.

Recently in his career, Neil began something less bent on new technology but still cutting edge. A self-funded project, MetallurgyData, started about five years ago. "It evolved," Neil said, "from two ideas; the first was to produce an online property prediction calculator and the second was around providing online training courses."

While Neil did not pursue the property production calculator idea, the online training courses were a hit. They have evolved into the videos that are currently available on YouTube. "I think there is a gap in the market for producing online training courses in metallurgy and I initially thought to pursue this with a 'fundamentals in metallurgy' course."

[blockquote align="left"]I think there is a gap in the market for producing online training courses in metallurgy and I initially thought to pursue this with a "fundamentals in metallurgy" course.[/blockquote]

Neil is looking to expand his YouTube platform to provide additional content, and is eager to develop more videos for companies in order to facilitate more informational content for his growing audience.

For more information, email Neil Hardy at metallurgydata@gmail.com, message him via MetallurgyData on LinkedIn, or leave comments on his YouTube Videos.

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