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Groundwork Officers Chairman R. Dale Vaughn OCT Equipment, Inc. Oklahoma City, Okla. Vice Chairman WalteR BeRRy Berry Companies, Inc. Wichita, Kan. Treasurer DaViD Scott Intermountain Bobcat Salt Lake City, Utah President BoB henDeRSon The AED Foundation Oak Brook Ill. Immediate Past Chairman Don Shilling General Equipment & Supplies, Inc. Fargo, N.D. AED Board Representative laWRence F. glynn CMW Equipment St. Louis, Mo. Executive Director SteVe JohnSon The AED Foundation Oak Brook Ill. DirectOrs al ceRVeRo AEM, Milwaukee, Wisc. Mike hayeS Komatsu America Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill. chRiStopheR R. WilMot CWPartners, Inc., Orlando, Fla. Michael hinRichSen Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Ill. Mike FeSting-SMith NORTRAX, Inc., Moline, Ill. Duane WilDeR Liebherr Construction Equipment Co., Newport News, Va. a. Roy keRn Equipment Corporation of America, Coraopolis, Pa. DenniS l. VanleeuWen GE Capital Solutions, St. Louis, Mo. Dan SneDecoR Volvo Construction Equipment, Asheville, N.C. chRiStopheR peRa HiReach Group, King of Prussia, Pa. DR. John RichMan North Dakota State College, Wahpeton, N.D. RonalD RieckS Wells Fargo Construction, Tempe, Ariz. JiM anDeRSon Anderson Machinery Company, Corpus Christi, Texas October 2009 Construction Equipment Distribution www.cedmag.com 15 the aeD Foundation has secured the renewal of its Authorized Provider status through IACET, the premier standard-setting organization for continuing education and training providers. The AED Foundation's Authorized Provider status ensures that The Foundation's professional education programs and courses meet the very highest standards for quality and content. IACET Authorized Providers complete a comprehensive application and undergo a strict evaluation of their educational processes. For The AED Foundation, the application process took nearly six months to complete and produced an application totaling 300 pages. IACET required us to prove that each and every program and course that The AED Foundation offers is constructed and executed with excellence, said Alison Wechman, The AED Foundation's manager of professional education. We were able to show with consistency that our programs are top-notch and thus, of great value to our members. The AED Foundation's industry-specific professional education programs and courses are a benefit available to all AED members. Our courses and programs are position-specific and industry-specific, said Wechman. We offer content for nearly every profit center of the dealership: Parts, service, sales, and rental, as well as branch operations management. Even our people management and customer management courses are presented in the context of an equipment dealership. The AED Foundation's Authorized Provider status enables The Foundation to award program and course participants with Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The CEU is the standard currency for professional educa-tion in many industries. The ability to award CEUs signifies that The Foundation's programs are rigorous and valuable for learners. The AED Foundation offers certification programs based on CEUs in branch opera-tions management, parts management, service management, and rental manage-ment. AED Certified Managers are part of an exclusive class of professionals who have met the rigorous certification standards set forth by AED and The AED Foundation. Achieving management certification through AED and The AED Foundation signi-fies a commitment to superior workplace performance on the part of AED member companies their individual team and members. For more information about The AED Foundation's Authorized Provider status or any of The AED Foundation's programs or courses, please e-mail Alison Wechman at awechman@aednet.org. Visit AED University for more information on available programs and courses: .www.aedu.org IACET Awards `Authorized Provider' Status to The AED Foundation The AED Foundation offers the best in professional education and has seal of approval from The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) to prove it. Have Only a Minute to check the World Markets? get a brief update on the AED Foundation's home page at www. aednet.org/aed_foundation/, or if you've got AED's homepage (www.aednet. org) saved in your favorites, just click on AED Foundation from there. It's a new feature we've added for you!