Professional Development Courses

If you are a busy professional in the engineering field, you may need training from time to time in order to update your skills or maintain your certification. It is well known that engineers with a P.E. license are required to take 15 hours of professional development courses per year in order to maintain the certification.

The Engineering Graphics Technology program at Greenville Technical College offers short courses and seminars in partnership with the Buck Mickel Centerin order to meet your training needs. In this case, the course would be a Continuing Education offering and you would enroll in the course by calling Linda Gathings at 864-250-8194.

EGT Professional Development Courses

Each course below provides the 15 classroom hours of instruction required annually to maintain an active engineers' license in South Carolina . Evening and some web based classes are offered for the convenience of students.

Notes:

1. The symbol (W) means the course has WEB based notes.

2. Courses requiring the purchase of a text book are shown below.

AutoCAD, 2D – Introduction to part and assembly drawings for manufacture. (W)

AutoCAD, 3D - solid modeling of industrial parts and assemblies.

CATIA V5, 3D - Introduction to solid modeling of part and assembly drawings for manufacture. (W)

Solid Works, 3D – Introduction to solid modeling of part and assembly drawings for manufacture.

Manufacturing CAD Design Technology – Introduction to industrial metals and plastics, manufacturing process for machining, casting, molding, joining, and assembly. (W)

How to Invent by the NCMR Method - Almost every product is changing or being replaced, sources of original ideas, modifiers, searching the US patent office database, making a patent disclosure.

Process Pipe Drafting – Introduction to: Piping, Valves, Pumps, Tanks, 2D and 3D equipment layouts and section views. (W) “Process Pipe Drafting”, by T. Shumaker.

Structural Steel Drafting – Introduction to: AISC structural steel sections, framed, seated, and welded connections, beam-girder-column structures, and trusses. (W)

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing – Datum planes, position, straightness, flatness, parallelism, perpendicularity, angularity, circularity, cylindricity, profile, and run-out. (W)

Mechanical CAD Design Calculations – Stresses and deflections in machine members, power transmission shafting, power screws, bolt loading, springs, gear forces, rolling bearings, welding. “Machine Design”, by Hall, Holowenko, and Laughlin.

Blueprint Reading – Introduction to: interpreting drawing dimensions of size, position, and quality, drawing symbols, and design intent.

For more details about these types of short courses and seminars, please contact Linda Gathings at 864-250-8194 or log onto The Buck Mickel Center at Greenville Tech.