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Continuing education - thread about good courses

Continuing education - thread about good courses

Continuing education - thread about good courses

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Am hoping this thread would be a collection of good continuing education courses.

I was pretty weak on the electrical side, and I just finished the distance ed. electromechanical technician certificate through George Brown College:
http://www.emcourse.com/
It's nominally a 34-week thing, but you can do it at your own pace and I took about a year for it. If you're in a desperate hurry, you could probably do it in a couple of months. I found the pacing is tad uneven--and to get the most out of it you have to do some extra reading on the side, but it was not unpleasant. The math content is trivial, but the concepts are (mostly) well-explained. The price was certainly right at CDN $1,725, and you can pay-as-you-go, which is convenient. Overall, I really feel I really learned something and can now have more intelligent conversations with my electrical engineer colleagues, which I what I was after. I would recommend it highly.

At the other end of the time and cost spectrum, this PDHonline.org course called M245 Electric Overhead Traveling (EOT) Cranes and Hoists was only a couple of hours of reading and (since they offered a discount) it was only US$60.
http://www.pdhonline.org/courses/m245/m245content....
It was useful mostly just for terminology; nothing really deep or significant in there. But it was pretty much the only thing I could find on overhead cranes, so if you need something on that topic, there it is.

I'd be interested in a correspondence or online course in maintenance engineering or equipment reliability, if anyone knows of any good ones.

RE: Continuing education - thread about good courses

I attended plenty of courses during my 11-year career, and I could recommend these from the domain of Chemical Engineering (and covering mouch more than that):

Gas Operations Engineering by David Simpson, http://www.muleshoe-eng.com/id2.html

Process Troubleshooting by Norman Lieberman, http://www.lieberman-eng.com/seminars.htm

These trainings were top-notch events dealing with plenty of practical engineering subjects and with "down-to-earth" approach by the trainers, who are amongst a few experts out there with huge hands-on experience.

Dejan IVANOVIC
Senior Process Engineer

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