May 18, 2005
GEAPS and Purdue offer Web course in grain-facility design
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Professionals can sharpen their skills in grain-facility planning and design through a five-week Web-based course taking place this summer.
The course is being offered by the Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) and Purdue University. Sessions will cover grain-facility components, such as storage options, site selection, budgeting, receiving systems, weighing systems, sampling systems, conveying systems, grain distribution systems, cleaning systems, and other major planning and design components and considerations.
The class, called GEAPS 510 "Grain Facilities Planning and Design I," will begin on June 13 and continue through July 15. Students must complete coursework within this time period, but what time of the day they wish to complete assignments is their choice. Traveling is not required for the course; students can complete coursework in their own home, needing only a computer with an Internet connection and compact disc player.
All course materials are based on the GEAPS 2002 Facility Design Conference.
"Working through the material as part of a professional development course together with colleagues from around North America will raise the professional competencies of all course participants," said Dirk Maier, the professor of agricultural and biological engineering who will oversee the course.
The course is $350 for GEAPS members and $400 for nonmembers. The fee includes class materials and tuition. CDs containing the course lectures and papers will be mailed to students. No refunds for cancellations will be given after May 27, but substitutions will be allowed at the qualifying fee rate. Online registration is available.
Writer: Jennifer Culy, 494-8402, jculy@purdue.edu
Source: Dirk Maier, 494-1175, maier@purdue.edu
Ag Communications: (765) 494-2722; Beth Forbes, forbes@purdue.edu
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