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Career Development Series Course Descriptions
Conducting Effective Meetings
This course covers concepts for holding successful meetings
with either a few or a few hundred participants. Learn the principles
and techniques of holding a more productive meeting. Learn how to
handle common group and individual situations for effective leadership
and to achieve desired meeting goals. Communication Skills: Breaking
Down the Barriers This course discusses the various aspects
of communication and the steps to increase the communication skill level
of the participant. Listening skills, speaking skills, and effective
written communication are reviewed. Various skill-enhancing suggestions
are discussed to help the participant apply the material reviewed. How
to improve communications during discussions with peers, direct reports,
and management is discussed. Techniques to help master the art of
asking questions are presented. Economics of Doing Business: Financial
Evaluation for Engineers This course is designed to give 1) a
fundamental understanding of the financial and accounting principles,
terms, techniques and practices, and 2) the tools necessary to evaluate
and financially justify your own projects to corporate management. You
will learn how to read and understand financial statements, balance
sheets, income statements, costs and accounting reports. Topics
include how to perform financial analyses by using ratios, profitability,
liquidity, leverage, activity ratios, returns on sales, gross margin percentages,
and returns on total assets. Financial earnings and forecasting will also
be presented. Computer Aided Design and Analysis
This course, focusing on the foundation of
CAD, teaches design analysis concepts and terminology, features and functions
of DesignSpace, and how to use DesignSpace to integrate analysis into
the design process. It gives practical examples, which can be run
with AutoCad. Hands-on demonstration, conducted in a computer laboratory,
will be included. Mechanical Properties of Materials
for Engineers This course covers introductory concepts in
the field of mechanical behavior of materials. The module starts with
the distinction between elastic and plastic deformation, then presents
the different mechanical properties such as tensile, impact, fatigue,
and creep. It also covers several testing techniques commonly used
in the determination of mechanical properties. To illustrate and
compare the properties of different materials, a series of tables containing
data from selected structural steels, aluminum alloys, titanium alloys,
and ceramic materials were included. Effective Teaming for Increased Productivity
This course covers some key concepts to develop,
maintain and grow effective teams. Many engineers are often designated
to work in cross-functional teams, inter-business teams, high performance
teams, quality steering teams, new product development teams, etc. How
to keep the team as a coherent group, how to solve problems and make decisions
in a team, and how to resolve conflicts and differences in a team are
some of the objectives of achieving effective teaming. Test Engineering Enabling Skills Test Engineering Enabling Skills has been developed to help you understand
the importance of managing limited test resources to optimize the overall,
strategic benefits to your customer, company, profession, and self. Overview of Process Plant Piping System
Maintenance and Repair Process plant piping systems are typically
designed, fabricated, installed, inspected, and tested in accordance with
ASME B31.3, Process Piping. API 570, Piping Inspection Code, covers inspection,
repair, alteration, and rerating procedures for metallic piping systems
after they have been placed into service. This course provides an overview
of API 570 requirements. Introduction to Finite Element Methods The course focuses on the development of principles
used in finite element analysis. It reviews matrix algebra and matrix
structural analysis then develops finite elements using direct formulation
and energy methods. Finally it teaches finite element method and analysis
by giving simple examples of static, dynamic and heat transfer problems.
It was developed for design engineers with basic understanding of engineering
fundamentals. How to Develop a Business Plan for
Engineers This module focuses on the first step in the
development of business ventures -- planning. It is intended to provide
an understanding of the appropriate content of a business plan and sources
available to assist in its preparation. By providing references to forms
and tools, the clerical aspects of creating a plan is minimized. This
module is applicable to a new business or an existing one where a plan
was never formalized. The creation of a business plan adds value to the
enterprise by the process of evaluating the nature, market, resources,
and financial expectations - whether or not outside funding will be needed.
Fatigue for Engineers This module provides an introduction to the
fatigue structural failure mode. Fatigue is caused by cyclic loading and
results in the formation of cracks that can then propagate to fracture.
It is a common failure mode for many types of structures and materials,
and has been estimated to be the cause of over half of all mechanical
failures. This module begins with a general description of the fatigue
process and its characteristics. The stress-life and strain-life approaches
for determining the number of cycles required to form cracks in smooth
and notched components are then presented. The next section deals with
linear elastic fracture mechanics techniques to predict fatigue crack
growth and subsequent fracture. The final section overviews various fatigue
design criteria and approaches for providing structural resistance to
fatigue for long service lives.
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