This is a two day workshop targeted at people who are already involved in using or operating heat treatment operations and need a fuller understanding of heat treatment principles in their job. The course aims to be practical in nature but heat treatment is a process of micro-structural engineering and the fundamentals will be addressed. However, no prior metallurgical knowledge is required. Common engineering steels, stainless steels, nickel based alloy systems and titanium and aluminium alloy systems will be covered. The course will consider bulk heat treatments but not surface heat treatments.

Who should attend
The course is aimed at people who are currently involved in using or operating heat treatment operations in their employment and need to broaden their understanding or branch out into new fields/alloys. The course would be helpful to Works Metallurgists, General Managers, Supervisors and recent graduates in Materials Technology.

Speakers
Course Manager: Ken Wrigley.
Ken Wrigley is currently a consultant on metals processing issues. He is a career metallurgist with over 30 years of experience in the provision of heat treated products, particularly to the aerospace, off-shore, railway and general engineering sectors. In a career culminating as Technical Director of a number of forging companies, he has experience of heat treatment issues from shop floor to boardroom. He has been an active member of BSI drafting committees, TIG, the Materials Forum and has presented on the Sheffield Universities MSc modules.