Milling Journal

IAOM Expands Course Offerings With KSU to Eight One-Week Modules

The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) is expanding its three long-time one-week short course educational programs into eight week-long offerings beginning in 2009.

The new courses will be held as “IAOM Resident Courses,” in collaboration with Kansas State University’s (KSU) Department of Grain Science and Industry on the university’s Manhattan campus.

“This (short course expansion) is the result feedback from our members and the milling industry concerning their educational needs,” said IAOM Executive Vice President Melinda Farris in an interview Aug. 21.

In recent decades, the IAOM has offered two week-long short courses on the KSU campus – Introduction to Flour Milling and Advanced Flour Milling - and an additional Mill Maintenance course each fall.

Farris said all three of these courses have been retained, the flour milling courses are under the “Mill Processes I” and “Mill Processes II” title and the maintenance course under “Maintenance: Power Transmission and Automation.”

Following is the IAOM Resident Course schedule for 2009:

• Jan. 26-30: Introduction to Flour Milling

• Feb. 2-6: Managing Mill Performance

• March 23-27: Quality Control/Quality Assurance

• March 30-April 3: Mill Safety and Sanitation

• June 8-12: Mill Processes I: Wheat Intake and the Cleaning House

• June 15-19: Mill Processes II: Grinding and Separation

• Oct. 12-16: Materials Handling

• Oct. 19-23: Maintenance: Power Transmission and Automation

IAOM also will continue to offer its correspondence course in flour milling, This course currently is being revised, and the first unit will be available by the end of 2008 as part of a distance learning program under development, Farris said.

For more information, contact IAOM at 913-338-3377; www.iaom.info.