Distance Learning in
Vibration and Shock Testing
Who should take the 1001 course
1001 Outline
How does it work?
How much does it cost?
System Requirements
What is it?
ERI (Equipment Reliability Institute) offers unique Distance Learning Program in Vibration and Shock Testing. Hundreds of Power Point text and photo slides and plus animations and video clips teach you about vibration and shock basics, control, instrumentation, calibration, analysis and testing, as well as ESS, HALT and HASS.
Would you like to be "walked through" a sample lesson (number 10 of the 33)? Click here.
Study in privacy at home or during downtime at work. Avoid travel. Avoid interference with night school, etc. Avoid losing valued employees for several days.
It has been my real pleasure taking your course. I have known of your work for many years, and I jumped at the chance to take your course. I have learned a great deal. (...) I am much more knowledgeable now than I was before the class.
Paul N. Turner
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Participant receives a CD-ROM carrying 33 lessons + review material. At the end of each lesson, participant answers questions and works out problems. Then he e-mails the reviews to Wayne Tustin, his personal "remote professor". For more details in how the distance learning program work, click here.
Upon successful completion within one year of all 33 lesson reviews plus documentation of your professional work in dynamics plus completion of your thesis (a simple article of a few hundred words describing some aspect of that work - Wayne will assist), ERI will issue your certificate as Vibration and Shock Technologist!
A description of each of the 33 lessons is given here.
Who should take the 1001 course
This course is primarily aimed at engineers and technicians who conduct developmental and production vibration and shock tests. But it also benefits designers of products that must survive such tests and/ must survive rigorous service conditions. Also benefits metrologists who measure vibration and shock on active automobiles, aircraft, etc. Also electronics production and quality control personnel who conduct highly accelerated life tests (HALT), environmental stress screening (ESS) and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS). Finally, it assists vibration and shock test, measurement and calibration equipment marketing, sales and installation personnel.
This course is primarily aimed at engineers and technicians who conduct developmental and production vibration and shock tests. But it also benefits
- designers of products that must survive such tests and must survive rigorous service conditions.
- metrologists who measure vibration and shock on active automobiles, aircraft, etc.
- electronics production and quality control personnel who conduct highly accelerated life tests (HALT), environmental stress screening (ESS) and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS)
- vibration and shock test, measurement and calibration equipment marketing, sales and installation personnel.
You will receive your CD-ROM from Santa Barbara, California. When you install the CD in your PC you will discover that it contains 33 lessons and 32 question/problem sets. The usual sequence is 1, 2, 3, etc. but that's not mandatory. You might decide to take Lesson 20 first, for example, to get introduced to random vibration. Or lesson 7 on accelerometers. When you are ready to commence a lesson, read through that lesson on screen or (if you wish) printed onto paper. You can consult the glossary for vibration terms; it’s part of the course. Then work through the Review, which is in Word format. Insert your answers between the numbered questions/problems. Finally, e-mail your review page (questions/problems and your answer as an e-mail attachment) to me, Wayne Tustin.
I'll grade your review at my office or even if I'm traveling.
Those answers that I agree with, I'll mark [ok]. Sometimes there are answers that could be improved upon, and those I'll answer with a sentence or a paragraph. Sometimes I'll ask you to think further and to revise your answer. Then I'll e-mail the first submittal of that Review back to you, sometimes in only a matter of a few hours. If I've asked for some additional work, there will be further submitting and further grading. This goes on until I say "OK, you're finished with that Review" and you can proceed to the next.
In a sense, you'll get more of my attention than you would in a classroom setting. The downside is that I can't see your expression …. don't get visual feedback. If you ever have difficulty understanding me (on the CD or in my comments upon your lessons), I want to hear from you. We'll thrash that topic back-and-forth until you DO understand me. Sometimes this results in my stating the original idea with greater clarity and I put the improved explanation into my hard drive for the benefit of future students. I've been teaching vibration and shock fundamentals since the early 'sixties, but just about anything can be stated more clearly.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Best wishes,
Wayne Tustin
The Distance Learning Program one-time fee is US$ 2,295 + shipping.
If you'd like to purchase Wayne's minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardbound text “Random Vibration & Shock Testing, Measurement, Analysis & Calibration” in addition to the Distance Learning Program, you can get a discount when buying Combo1. Please see order form.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
Random access memory (RAM):
- For Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4: 64 MB of RAM
- For Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003: 128 MB of RAM
- For Windows Vista: 512 MB of RAM
5 MB of available hard disk space
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher screen resolution
Please note that there is no Macintosh version of the Distance Learning Program CD-ROM at this moment.
We also offer two other training formats, without review problems or Wayne's assistance.
1001 Reference Edition Material
It's the CD-ROM described above at the Distance Learning Program, but without Wayne's assistance. No certification is issued.
Cost: US$ 1,295 + shipping
If you'd like to purchase Wayne's minimal-mathematics, minimal-theory hardbound text “Random Vibration & Shock Testing, Measurement, Analysis & Calibration” in addition to the Reference Edition Material, you can get a discount when buying Combo2. Please see order form.
Basic series in Vibration and Acoustics
Somewhat similar material in coverage to the 1001 CD-ROM course. It does not include any review problems nor Wayne's assistance. Get more information here.
Cost: US$ 750 + shipping