Founded in 1990, Stiles Education (SE) provides the industry’s most comprehensive education curriculum. Over 40 courses are available--from an introduction to panel processing through advanced programming and troubleshooting for computer numeric controls--and are taught by instructors with over 150 years of combined experience in the wood industry.
Stiles Education has more than 30 PC workstations for learning CAD software and CNC programming, three classrooms featuring state-of-the-art projection systems, and a complete equipment demonstration area. Stiles Education students "learn by doing", the most effective type of training.
Custom education solutions and consulting are available. Call SE to provide diagnostic services, employee development and programs designed for your specific training needs.
In addition to classroom instructor-led education, Stiles Education offers e-learning. Accelerate your equipment productivity with our computer-based courses.
With advanced facilities and nine full-time personnel, only Stiles has made such a significant investment in the future of your personnel--and your business. Join the successful companies that are helping educate and retain their personnel through an investment in the future. Invest in Stiles Education.
Stiles Education has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102, and operates the only IACET accredited training center in the industry. More information about IACET standards >
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
One Stiles Education IACET CEU is defined as ten contact hours of active participation and comprehension. The primary purpose of CEU is to provide a permanent record of educational accomplishments. Being awarded IACET CEUs provides a quality indicator of continuing education and training reviewed and approved for complying with the highest levels of internationally recognized standards.
Homag (Schopfloch, Germany) recently certified Stiles Education as an Authorized Homag Training Center.
Of Homag's 19 sales partners throughout the world, Stiles is one of the first to earn this distinction by meeting standards on training center management, depth and quality of curriculum as well as the proven abilities of the teaching faculty.
Stiles Education's program has earned a Woodworking Machinery Importers Association (WMIA) Educator of the Year award.
Distance Learning Center -- one of several
state-of-the-art classrooms.
Here's what students have to say about Stiles Education
"I have had several Stiles Education courses, and each time I have learned several practices and processes that the industry is utilizing that we may have not been. Apart from the course curriculum, all my personal questions have always been answered to help our production problems."
Tyson Young, Pacific Crest Industries Inc., VE100, April 2008
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