Metallurgy Education & Training
Grow your career or accelerate your team’s impact with training from ASM International.
Learn from industry experts in a variety of formats that suit your budget, schedule, and preferred learning style.
Instructor-Led Courses
Hands-on learning that takes place in-person at ASM headquarters in our state-of-the-art training labs and classrooms, or virtually through direct interaction with an expert ASM instructor without needing to travel!
Self-Study Courses
Online education courses which allow you to learn at your own pace in an independent study format.
Digital Short Courses
Shorter format, typically completed in ~2 hours, which offer visual guides, animations, and interactive quizzes.
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Certificate Programs
Learning is a lifelong process. Completing a certificate program advances your knowledge while increasing your value to your company.
Note: As an IACET Accredited Provider, ASM International offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Instructor-Led Courses
Aluminum and Its Alloys
This comprehensive course examines the complete spectrum of aluminum metallurgy, from extractive processes to finished products. Students will learn about aluminum alloy classification, composition, solidification principles, phase diagrams, and the fundamental differences between casting and wrought alloys. The course addresses both hot and cold working processes, heat treatment principles including precipitation hardening, and the recovery and recrystallization behavior that influences final material properties.
The course also includes practical applications such as joining methods including welding, brazing, and soldering, as well as corrosion mechanisms and protection strategies for aluminum alloys. Students will learn about metallographic examination techniques, material selection for specific applications, and various finishing methods. Upon completion, students will be able to identify suitable aluminum alloys for specific applications, describe composition and processing interactions, solve routine processing issues, and identify cost-reduction opportunities without compromising material performance.
Elements of Metallurgy
This course provides a broad introduction to the fundamental principles of metallurgy. The student will gain an understanding of basic and practical applications in various fields of metals and alloy behavior and manufacturing processes.
Unfortunately, an in-person option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Unfortunately, a virtual option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist
Metals and alloys are used in the greatest variety of applications of all engineering materials and drive your product’s success. That is why it’s crucial to know what metals are, how they behave, and why they behave differently than ceramics, glass, and plastics. This course will provide you with essential knowledge about metallurgy and how to apply it to your business or industry.
Metallurgy of Steel for the Non-Metallurgist
Steel is, technologically and economically, the most important of all materials. Understanding the metallurgy involved in making steel, in shaping it by hot or cold processes, in welding it, and in heat-treating it to develop any of the extraordinarily diverse combinations of strength, hardness, toughness, and ductility available is essential to successful manufacturing and construction. This course teaches the basics and delves into some of the more advanced topics critical to steel fabrication.
Unfortunately, a virtual option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Unfortunately, a virtual option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Metallurgy of Welding and Joining
Welding metallurgy is a complex subject because it requires knowledge of materials, welding processes, design, and inspection. The Metallurgy of Welding and Joining course provides an excellent review of welding processes, welding of materials ranging from carbon steel to specialized alloys, guidelines for designing weldments to facilitate welding, and testing and inspecting welds to meet performance requirements.
Unfortunately, a virtual option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Stainless Steels
Stainless steels have emerged as one of the more important man-made materials, designed for strength, corrosion resistance, and ease of fabrication. Continued growth in the use of stainless steels provides an incentive to understand their properties, processing, and response to various fabrication routes. This course provides the important facts to help master these alloys for a wide variety of uses.
Unfortunately, an in-person option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Superalloys
Knowledge of superalloys is key to designing the critical components used in the most challenging applications. This course allows you to dive deep into this unique class of materials that exhibit superior mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and surface stability. You will focus on the nature, properties, and usage of metal alloys. The content for the Superalloys course will include materials, superalloy properties, corrosion behavior, a look towards the future of superalloys, and more.
Titanium and Its Alloys
Titanium and its alloys are a versatile family of metals with applications in many industries. They have high modulus and strength-to-weight ratios, excellent corrosion resistance, and superior biocompatibility. This unique combination of physical, mechanical, and chemical properties make them attractive for aerospace, marine, industrial, and biomedical applications. This course provides an overview of the rapidly growing titanium industry.
Unfortunately, an in-person option is not currently offered, but please click below to share your interest and help inform our course development efforts!
Self-Study Courses
Aluminum and Its Alloys
This examines the complete spectrum of aluminum metallurgy, from extractive processes to finished products. Students will learn about aluminum alloy classification, composition, solidification principles, phase diagrams, and the fundamental differences between casting and wrought alloys.
Electroplating
Many metals and alloys can be enhanced considerably by electroplating to provide corrosion resistance and/or decorative finishes. This course provides the electrical and chemical fundamentals of electroplating. Many types of metallic electrodeposition are explained in a “do” and “don’t” presentation.
Elements of Metallurgy
Fundamentals and Applications of Powder Metallurgy
Authored by nationally recognized authority, F.V. Lenel, Professor Emeritus, RPI. Powder Metallurgy (P/M) has been a small but rapidly growing source of near-net shaped parts for industry. The success of the P/M process derives from its ability to mass-produce complex structural parts with savings in labor, material, and/or energy.
Fundamentals of Non-Destructive Testing
Study valuable NDT techniques outlined by industry experts on your own time and at your own pace with ASM’s “Fundamentals of Nondestructive Testing.” Nondestructive Testing (NDT) is a vital part of material evaluation that can save users time and money in product assessment, troubleshooting, and research.
Introduction to Composites
Composites are a specialty material used at increasing levels throughout our engineered environment, from high-performance aircraft and ground vehicles to relatively low-tech applications in our daily lives. This course, designed for technical and non-technical professionals alike, provides an overarching introduction to composite materials. The course content is organized in a manner that guides the student from design to raw materials to manufacturing, assembly, quality assurance, testing, use, and life-cycle support.
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist
An ideal first course for anyone who needs a working understanding of metals and their applications. It has been designed for those with no previous training in metallurgy, such as technical, laboratory, and sales personnel; engineers from other disciplines; management and administrative staff; and non-technical support staff such as purchasing and receiving agents who order and inspect incoming material.
Metallurgy of Steel for the Non-Metallurgist
Metallurgy of Welding and Joining
Nickel and Nickel Alloys
Where long performance life and reduced lifecycle costs are at issue, nickel and nickel alloys can frequently provide an excellent alternative. Today, as long mill lead times attest, higher alloyed materials are being used to an even greater extent. To provide dependable information on when to use these alloys – and in which applications – this course has been developed.
Stainless Steels
Stainless steels have emerged as one of the more important man-made materials, designed for strength, corrosion resistance, and easy fabrication. Continued growth in the use of stainless steels provides an incentive to understand their properties, processing, and response to various fabrication rules. This course provides the important facts to help master these alloys for a wide variety of uses.
Superalloys
Knowledge of superalloys is key to designing the critical components used in the most challenging applications. This course allows you to dive deep into this unique class of materials that exhibit superior mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, and surface stability. You will focus on the nature, properties, and usage of metal alloys. The content for the Superalloys course will include materials, superalloy properties, corrosion behavior, a look towards the future of superalloys, and more.
Thermal Spray Technology
Thermal spray technology provides a cost-effective solution for many applications requiring resistance to wear, heat, and corrosion. This course provides an understanding of thermal spray processing science as well as applications and practice. You will learn how thermal spray processing interacts with the materials it is designed to protect.
Titanium and Its Alloys
Titanium and its alloys are a versatile family of metals with applications in many industries. They have high modulus and strength-to-weight ratios, excellent corrosion resistance, and superior biocompatibility. This unique combination of physical, mechanical, and chemical properties make them attractive for aerospace, marine, industrial, and biomedical applications. This course provides an overview of the rapidly growing titanium industry.
Welding Inspection and Quality Control
Digital Short Courses
Basics of Welding
This focused digital short course delivers fundamental knowledge of welding principles and techniques through practical, industry-relevant content. The course explores how metals are joined through heat and/or pressure, covering essential methods from fusion welding processes that use heat to melt metal interfaces, to pressure welding techniques. Clear technical visuals, narrated process animations, and interactive quizzes reinforce key concepts.
Materials Characterization and the Selection Process
Selecting a material is one of the most critical design decisions an engineer can make. This digital short course provides essential knowledge for making material selection decisions in engineering design. The course addresses how to evaluate the various factors that impact material selection for component design. Clear technical visuals, narrated process animations, demonstration videos, and interactive quizzes reinforce key concepts.
Powder Characterization for Metal Additive Manufacturing
This self-guided digital short course uses helpful visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to teach powder characterization for metal additive manufacturing. Smooth, continuous flow of powder is important for success in both powder bed and directed energy deposition processes. This course explains powder flowability concepts that help optimize powder selection, select appropriate flow tests, and enhance the overall performance of metal additive manufacturing processes.