Heat Treat Education & Training
Grow your career or accelerate your team’s impact by training with 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 of Achievement
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
Basics of Heat Treating
Basics of Heat Treating is designed for individuals new to heat treating or those transitioning into roles that involve heat treatment processes. This course explores foundational principles including phase diagrams, heat treatment processes, and how thermal processing affects the microstructure and mechanical properties of steel.
Processes such as annealing, normalizing, hardening, and tempering will be examined, along with specialized treatments for tool steels and stainless steels, with illustrated examples connecting theory to practical applications. By the end of the course, students will be able to explain heat treating fundamentals, communicate more effectively with heat treating specialists, and be prepared for more advanced training or roles in the field.
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Heat Treating, Furnaces and Equipment
Heat treatment is one of the primary processes used to improve the hardness and strength of metals and metal alloys. This course is designed as an extension of the Basics of Heat Treating course. It discusses advanced concepts in thermal and thermochemical surface treatments, such as case hardening, as well as the principles of thermal engineering (furnace design) and process trouble shooting.
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Heat Treating, Microstructures & Performance of Carbon & Alloy Steels
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Practical Heat Treating
Vacuum Heat Treating
Self-Study Courses
Basics of Heat Treating
Basics of Heat Treating is designed for individuals new to heat treating or those transitioning into roles that involve heat treatment processes. This course explores foundational principles including phase diagrams, heat treatment processes, and how thermal processing affects the microstructure and mechanical properties of steel.
Heat Treating, Furnaces and Equipment
Heat Treating, Microstructures and Performance of Carbon and Alloy Steels
Heat Treating Quality & Inspection
This course is designed to increase the technical knowledge of those involved in the heat treatment of metals and alloys. Emphasis is on process control and quality control inspection procedures, since both are necessary to provide heat treated products to meet industry standards and specifications.
Heat Treatment of Steel
Heat Treatment of Steel is a comprehensive course that covers practical heat treating of carbon, alloy, stainless and tool steels. In this course, there is additional emphasis on process applications, including valuable information on atmosphere control, quenching, temperature control and the type of equipment that is proper for different types of heat treating operations.
Induction Heat Treating
ASM International has developed this course covering the entire spectrum of induction heating technology. Written by industry experts, it covers the role of induction heating in producing reliable products, often with considerable savings in energy, labor and time. Taking a fundamentals approach, the basic principles of induction heating are presented as an introduction.
Maintenance of Heat Treating Equipment
This course focuses on the maintenance of industrial furnaces and associated thermal processing equipment. Batch and continuous furnaces, both with and without prepared protective atmospheres, are included. Associated equipment is covered for atmosphere generators, vacuum and induction heating.
Practical Heat Treating
Practical Heat Treating teaches the actual heat treating process or the “how” of heat treating, as compared to “Heat Treatment of Steel” and “Principles of Heat Treating” which are intended to impart the fundamental metallurgical knowledge of what happens when metals are heated and cooled or the “why” of heat treatment.
Practical Induction Heat Treating
The course will cover the role of induction heating in producing reliable products, as well as the considerable savings in energy, labor, space, and time it has. You will learn in-depth on topics such as selecting equipment, designs of multiple systems, current application, and sources and solutions of induction heat treating problems.
Digital Short Courses
Case Hardening of Steel
This self-guided digital course uses detailed visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to present the key case hardening processes including: carburizing, carbonitriding, and nitriding; quenching of case hardened parts; induction hardening; and various furnace types used in commercial heat treating processes.
Heat Treatment of Carbon and Alloy Steels
In this self-guided digital course, you will learn the various heat treatment processes involved in modulation properties of steel, effect of carbon on the phases of iron and how it affects the microstructure, classification of steel and tempering of steel.
Strengthening Mechanisms of Non-Ferrous Alloys
This focused digital short course provides important knowledge about strengthening mechanisms for non-ferrous metals. The primary industrial non-ferrous metals—copper, aluminum, zinc, tin, nickel, lead, titanium, and magnesium—require different strengthening approaches than steel. The course addresses how specific alloying elements affect mechanical properties, explores key precipitation hardening mechanisms, and reveals how to choose the right strengthening approach for different applications. Clear technical visuals, narrated process animations, and interactive quizzes reinforce key concepts.
Vacuum Heat Treating Additively Manufactured Parts
This digital short course uses rich visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to teach various vacuum heat treating processes for additively manufactured parts. It focuses on annealing and stress relieving, solid-solution annealing, and solution treating and aging.