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Digital Short Courses

Digital Short Courses

Our Digital Short Courses offer an engaging learning experience by combining rich visual elements and animations with audio narration. Interactive quizzes at the end of each module give learners the opportunity to test their understanding and reinforce their knowledge. Each course presents a focused topic that can be completed at the learner’s own pace in a manageable timeframe of about two hours.
Digital Short Courses require internet access to view course content in our learning management system.

Please see  Refund Policy for Online Courses(includes Digital Short Courses) for more general information concerning online courses.

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.
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.
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.
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.
This comprehensive digital course introduces metal solidification fundamentals and phase diagram interpretation for engineering and metallurgical applications. Using engaging graphics, audio-narrated content, and interactive quizzes, students will develop practical skills applicable to materials selection and processing decisions in metals manufacturing and engineering.
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.

This focused digital short course delivers fundamental knowledge of corrosion prevention principles and techniques. The course teaches the basic principles of corrosion prevention, including corrosion-control design considerations, material selection processes, and protective methods such as coatings, inhibitors, and cathodic protection. Detailed illustrations, narration, and knowledge assessments support learning throughout the course.

This self-study course provides essential knowledge of corrosion testing and monitoring techniques. Corrosion testing and monitoring are powerful tools in the fight to control corrosion. The course addresses techniques for corrosion testing and monitoring, as well as diagnosing corrosion failures. Content includes laboratory and field testing methods, electrochemical testing procedures, specimen preparation requirements, and monitoring systems. Technical visuals, narrated animations, demonstration videos, and interactive quizzes reinforce learning throughout the course.

This self-guided course focuses on the macroscale and microscale features associated with ductile and brittle fractures, utilizing helpful visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes. Adapted from the ASM education course Principles of Failure Analysis, Lesson 3: Ductile and Brittle Fracture, this digital course provides a comprehensive understanding of fracture mechanisms.
This self-guided digital short course uses helpful visuals, narrated animations, and interactive quizzes to teach fatigue failure, fracture due to cyclic stresses or strains below the tensile strength. Fatigue is among the most common causes of failure. Fatigue failure occurs because loading conditions are too severe, the component geometry is inappropriate, or the material or material condition is inappropriate.
This self-guided digital course provides the essential knowledge for preparing metal samples for microscopic examination through instructional videos, animations, and interactive quizzes covering the fundamental techniques of specimen preparation and analysis.
This self-guided digital course explores the theory and principles of microscope operation and quantitative analysis techniques used in metallographic examination. Through instructional videos, animations, and interactive quizzes, learn about metallurgical microscope components and measurement principles for quantifying microstructural characteristics.
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.

This digital short course provides essential knowledge for identifying, preventing, and predicting corrosion in metals and alloys. The course explores the major corrosion processes observed across all industries and examines real-world corrosion case studies from different industrial applications. Content features detailed illustrations, narrated explanations of corrosion mechanisms, demonstration videos, and interactive quizzes.

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.

This digital short course provides essential knowledge for measuring and interpreting mechanical properties of materials. The course examines how to measure properties such as tensile strength, hardness, and impact resistance and what these tests reveal about material behavior and failure mechanisms, including fracture, creep, and fatigue. Clear technical visuals, narrated process animations, demonstration videos, and interactive quizzes reinforce key concepts.

 

Reduced rates are available on Digital Short Courses for ASM Members residing in an economically qualified country.  All discounts will be applied at check out.