Short Courses Offered by the ERC/NSM 

The ERC/NSM has been organizing Conferences / Workshops / Short Courses for many years.

To see the content of short courses and a list of past events
        please click the topic of your interest

Sheet Metal Forming :

• Fundamentals and Applications

Precision Warm and Hot Forging :

• Near Net Shape Cold, Warm and Hot Forging Without Flash - Fundamentals and Applications
   
• Precision Closed Die Hot Forging With Flash - Fundamentals and Applications
   
• Cold and Hot Forging - Fundamentals and Applications, Book published in 2006, available from ASM International. Please click here to see the contents.

Tube and Sheet Hydroforming :

• Tube Hydroforming (THF) - Fundamentals and Applications

Course Instructor:

Dr.Taylan Altan
Dr.Altan is the Director of the ERC for Net Shape Manufacturing and a Professor of Industrial and Systems & Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. He was educated at the Technical University of Hannover, Germany and University of California-Berkeley. Dr.Altan joined the faculty of OSU in 1986, after working 2 years at Dupont and 19 years at Battelle Columbus Laboratories, an internationally known research and development organization. Dr. Altan has authored and co-authored numerous articles and three books related to metal forming. He is also a Fellow Member of SME, ASME, and ASM International. He is an Active Member of the Institute for Production Engineering Research (CIRP).

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