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The 2012 Course Catalog
Updated 2.3.12

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Board of Trustees

President
Don Snyder, Ph.D.
ATOTECH

Vice President
Ira Donovan, MSF
Burns & McDonnell

Secretary/Treasurer
Bob Srinivasan
A Brite Company

Past President
Melissa Klingenberg, Ph.D.
Concurrent Technologies Corporation

Rick Delawder
SWD, Inc.

Yinlun Huang, Ph.D.
Wayne State University

Brian Kane, CEF
S&C Electric Company

Fred Mueller, CEF
General Magnaplate Corporation

Michael Siegmund
MacDermid Inc.

Brian Peterson
Hydrite Corp.

Contact Phil Assante:
passante@nasf.org
703-887-7235

Course Catalog

Courses

• Airline & Aerospace Finishing
• Aluminum Finishing
• Chromium Plating for Engineering Applications (Hard Chrome)
• Corrosion & Salt Spray
• Electroforming
• Electroless Deposition
• Electroplating & Surface Finishing
• Just the Basics on Electroplating
• Industrial & Precious Metals Finishing
• Environmental Stewardship: Pollution Prevention
• Environmental Stewardship: Wastewater Treatment
• Zinc - Zinc Alloy Plating

Course Materials

Students are provided with a three ring binder containing printed course materials. The course materials consist of a full color reproduction of every slide in each presentation followed by text that is intended to cover and in some cases go beyond the live presentation given during instruction. Students can utilize these course materials for independent study and future reference. Following each lesson a review quiz is presented to allow each student to identify their level of understanding of the more important concepts in the lesson. These quizzes also prepare the student for the associated examination.

Instructors

AESF Foundation instructors have several decades of in the field experience in surface finishing. Each has served as an instructor for AESF for more than 20 years. Our instructors include consultants that have been recognized world-wide as the best in their field.

Objective

The objective of the lessons in AESF courses is to prepare the student for a certification examination that will provide said student with an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge in surface finishing methods, techniques and processes, whereby quality is improved and rejects/finishing problems are reduced, making said student more valuable to their employer.