Dustin Payne served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines, but when he returned home, he sought out work in the oil fields of...

A recent Gizmodo article featured friction welding for pipes with seemingly otherworldly images and videos of pipes being forced together and then rubbed together so that an...

A North Carolina state program that aims to get residents back to work has already seen success, as two recent welding graduates of Richmond Community College have...

The New York City subway system has rails that are held together by bolts, which are more likely to break or fracture on curves and in areas...

Brittany Everett didn’t choose welding as her first career. She had been working a desk job in drafting and design, but when she was laid off, she...

Inmates in the South Carolina prison system are finding a second chance through a high-quality job-training program that is passing significant job skills that they can put...

When John Lopez sought to make a memorial for his beloved aunt who died in a tragic accident, he looked past the materials he typically used for...

Prison inmates are hoping their careers “take a dive” in the right direction through the diving program at Chino State Prison through the SoCal Connected program run...

Welding students in Minnesota’s Anoka Technical College are being recruited to join union apprenticeship programs before they even graduate. In fact, 23 students have already been accepted...

Single moms in Wyoming can now work with the CLIMB program in order to find welding, driving, forklift, or warehouse inventory jobs that pay a high wage...

Three women enrolled in the welding program at Patrick Henry Community College are enjoying their new careers as welders. In fact, for each of them, welding was...

The latest group of students at Midwest Technical Institute include a father and daughter who wanted to try out a new career together. 

Welders at the Hobart Institute participate in an intensive 9-month job-training program that virtually guarantees they’ll find work by the time they graduate. According to Bloomberg News:...

Students at the Willoughby-Eastlake Career Center provided 350 centerpieces ranging between 16 inches and 36 inches for a fundraiser held by several Cleveland area hospitals. The project...

The new Bay Bridge in San Francisco suffered set backs and problems that resulted from simple fabrication mistakes in an overseas factory. While many of the welds...

As the demand for high-paying, reliable middle-class jobs continues to grow and welding companies continue to post open positions, women have become an essential part of the...

Donna Hammond worked for over 30 years as an electrician on construction sites, and as one of the few African American women on the job site, she...

The coming shortage of welders was highlighted as part of the Harvard Business Review’s latest article about the industries which may or not may not struggle as...

Operation: Arc is a new graphic novel that aims to explain the process and applications of welding to young readers. The book includes full color illustrations, technical...

Ward Walker is an Indiana welder with an eye for the unusual and discarded. Walker turns scrap metal into works of art that he calls “scart.” Walker...

While Brie Jenkins, a welder from the Ozarks, made front page news when she won second place in the American Welding Society’s Oktoberfest held in Springfield, none of...

Bob Dylan has taken to welding and iron working in his latest artistic project. Pulling from his iron ore roots of Hibbing Minnesota, Dylan has put together...

John Vyhlidal is out to convince students in Omaha’s high schools to consider “not” going to college. Instead, he’s offering high quality jobs at Tri-V Tool & Manufacturing....

Nate Bowman, the welding instructor at the Sidney Johnson Vocational Center, never had anything handed to him. From the age of 12, he worked at his own...