A Course on CLEANROOM TESTING   Glasgow University 24-26th June 2008

This course leads to a CTCB certificate in ‘Cleanroom Testing’. It is run in Scotland by S2C2, in Ireland by the Irish Cleanroom Society, and in Sweden by the R3 Nordic Cleanroom Society. This course is an accredited course of the International Cleanroom Education Board (ICEB) set up by the International Confederation of Contamination Control Societies (ICCCS). The course also has an Advisory and Examination Board containing cleanroom testing experts who ensure the content of the course and exams are set at a high standard. Two qualifications are available: Professional and Associate.

Professional Certificate. This is for the professional tester whose day-to day occupation is testing cleanrooms, and will have at least 2 years’ experience at the time of examination.

Associate Certificate.  This is for those involved in cleanroom testing, such as facilities engineers, or quality assurance managers who must understand how cleanrooms should be correctly tested. Cleanroom testers in training may take the associate exam on their way to the Professional Certificate.

The two courses are organised as follows:  On registration, a set of notes (about 110 pages long) is sent to the candidate containing information on the following:

• The reasons for validating a cleanroom, and validation philosophy
• How a cleanroom air conditioning plant works
• Validation standards
• Air volumes and velocities
• Differential pressures
• Infiltration of contamination into the cleanroom
• Air movement control within a cleanroom
• Air filter integrity tests
• Particle measuring methods according to ISO 14644-1
• Microbiological measurements
• Cleanroom conduct.

Also sent is a Questions and Answers Handbook, on which the student’s written exams are based. The course notes and QAs handbook must be studied so the student is knowledgeable enough to pass a written exam based on the notes and questions supplied. Students must then attend a course held at Glasgow University.  A 2 day course is for associate candidates, and 3 day is for professional candidates. The course is structured as follows:

• Associate and professional students must both attend the first day’s practical course, which gives instruction in filter integrity testing and air velocity and volume supply measurements.
• Both sets of students will attend a lecture course on the second morning where the course notes are revised. This is followed in the afternoon by a written exam. Exam questions will be short, and of the type that can be answered by no more than 10 words; no essays are required. The questions will be similar, or identical, to those issued in the QAs Handbook.
• ONLY Professional candidates must sit a practical exam in the third day. They must demonstrate their ability to find leaks in a filter and its housing, and accurately measure air supply velocities and volumes.

Professional candidates will have to pass both practical and written exams and the associate candidates must only pass the written exam. Anyone failing an exam can re-sit it at the next examination. This can be in Sweden or Ireland.

More information about the course (including an example of written exam paper) is at:

www.s2c2.co.uk/ctcb/ctcb2.html

Cost

This is split into two parts:

1) To register for the course, receive a copy of the Course Notes, and Questions and Answers Handbook is £110 + VAT.

2) The cost of attendance at the course:
Professionals: Three days attendance at practical training, revision lecture courses, and theory and practical exams is an additional £616 +VAT.
Associates: Two days attendance at practical training, revision lecture courses, and theory exam is an additional £410 + VAT.

Payment alternatives

1) Pay by credit card

2) Purchase Order

3) Cheque

Click here for the application form

For (2) & (3) complete application form and return to:
Kay Johnston
S2C2, James Watt Building, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: 0141 330 3699
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