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Summertime, and the living... In the second part of our occasional series on education within the PM industry, Jonathan Wroe, executive director of the European Powder Metallurgy Association, explains how EPMA has introduced a combination of courses, summer schools, distance learning and a thesis competition at both Master's and Doctorate level to stimulate interest in the industry and keep people abreast of developments... UMMERTIMEand the living is easy... Everyone knows the lullaby written by George Gershwin for the hit musical Porgy and Bess. But for the EPMA, summertime means something slightly less exotic while still being great fun - summer schools.
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This is an ongoing series of events that are designed for recent graduates and new entrants into the powder metallurgy industry. They are one-week intensive courses covering the broad range of PM processes and material technology. The format has proved both popular and successful and at the most recent event in Vienna last September 56 young
people received both theoretical and practical instruction from a broad group of respected names from academe and industry. The courses are part-funded by the European Union and it is intended to apply for a further five years' funding within the Marie Curie Programme established under the EU's Framework Programme 6. To maintain the momentum of education within the industry, over the past decade the EPMA has from time to time run short courses on topics ranging from metal injection moulding to hard materials, and these have proved very popular with people already established in the PM world.
Relaxing after the intesive work of the Vienna summer school.
8 ,V~ February2003
In an effort to spread information as far as possible, it is planned to run two courses this year in collaboration with national associations in Germany and Italy, though details have yet to be finalised. The Education and Training Group of the EPMA organises a PM Thesis Competition for theses on powder metallurgy at both Diploma/Master's and Doctorate/PhD levels. The aim of the competition is to promote and develop an interest in powder metallurgy among young scientists at European academic establishments and to encourage research at under-graduate and postgraduate levels. The subject of the thesis must be capable of being classified under the heading "Powder Metallurgy" and have been accepted or approved by the applicant's teaching establishment during the past three years. Entrants must be nationals of a European state. The first of these successful awards took place in 1996 and they have been repeated every other year since. The next competition will take place in 2oo4 to coincide with the PM World Congress, which will be hosted in Vienna by the EPMA in October. The prize is up to ~Iooo and the winners additionally have the opportunity to present their work at the relevant Euro PM conference. But of course, lying behind the formal courses of tuition is the power of technology. There is a lot of information available at the twitch of a mouse on the EPMA web site dealing with PM materials, processing and comparative advantages. It has an educational slant and much of it was generated using funding from the EU's Leonardo Programme that also investigated the use of distance learning and video conferencing. The EPMA intends to apply for a follow-up programme this year, linked to the development of a professional certification scheme using national languages as well as English. Full details can be seen at www.epma.com in the "About PM" section.
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Summertime, and the living... In the second part of our occasional series on education within the PM industry, Jonathan Wroe, executive director of the European Powder Metallurgy Association, explains how EPMA has introduced a combination of courses, summer schools, distance learning and a thesis competition at both Master's and Doctorate level to stimulate interest in the industry and keep people abreast of developments... UMMERTIMEand the living is easy... Everyone knows the lullaby written by George Gershwin for the hit musical Porgy and Bess. But for the EPMA, summertime means something slightly less exotic while still being great fun - summer schools.
S
This is an ongoing series of events that are designed for recent graduates and new entrants into the powder metallurgy industry. They are one-week intensive courses covering the broad range of PM processes and material technology. The format has proved both popular and successful and at the most recent event in Vienna last September 56 young
people received both theoretical and practical instruction from a broad group of respected names from academe and industry. The courses are part-funded by the European Union and it is intended to apply for a further five years' funding within the Marie Curie Programme established under the EU's Framework Programme 6. To maintain the momentum of education within the industry, over the past decade the EPMA has from time to time run short courses on topics ranging from metal injection moulding to hard materials, and these have proved very popular with people already established in the PM world.
Relaxing after the intesive work of the Vienna summer school.
8 ,V~ February2003
In an effort to spread information as far as possible, it is planned to run two courses this year in collaboration with national associations in Germany and Italy, though details have yet to be finalised. The Education and Training Group of the EPMA organises a PM Thesis Competition for theses on powder metallurgy at both Diploma/Master's and Doctorate/PhD levels. The aim of the competition is to promote and develop an interest in powder metallurgy among young scientists at European academic establishments and to encourage research at under-graduate and postgraduate levels. The subject of the thesis must be capable of being classified under the heading "Powder Metallurgy" and have been accepted or approved by the applicant's teaching establishment during the past three years. Entrants must be nationals of a European state. The first of these successful awards took place in 1996 and they have been repeated every other year since. The next competition will take place in 2oo4 to coincide with the PM World Congress, which will be hosted in Vienna by the EPMA in October. The prize is up to ~Iooo and the winners additionally have the opportunity to present their work at the relevant Euro PM conference. But of course, lying behind the formal courses of tuition is the power of technology. There is a lot of information available at the twitch of a mouse on the EPMA web site dealing with PM materials, processing and comparative advantages. It has an educational slant and much of it was generated using funding from the EU's Leonardo Programme that also investigated the use of distance learning and video conferencing. The EPMA intends to apply for a follow-up programme this year, linked to the development of a professional certification scheme using national languages as well as English. Full details can be seen at www.epma.com in the "About PM" section.
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