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Welder Creates Affordable Housing from Shipping Containers

Welding student Masih Madani had been studying housing development for the past four years. When he looked into the housing crisis in northern Nevada, he realized that...

From Small Town Welder to Tesla Engineer

Garrett Corneliussen is a manufacturing engineer at Tesla, but his future career in welding and fabrication wasn’t always a sure bet. Corneliussen had struggled to pay attention...

Single Mother Becomes Welding Instructor

Bandy Killeen took welding classes on the side at West Virginia Northern Community College while working at a marketing company in town. The single mother was one...

Mayo Civic Center Gets New Welded Statue

A new 5,500 pound sculpture has been welding by artist Po Shu Wang for the expanded Mayo Civic Center. Construction crews have installed it in its current...

Fun Tech Event Hosted by Technical Training Group

The annual Fun Tech event hosted by the Technical Training Group (TTG) in Stratford, Ontario. The event hosted elementary school students, ages 7-14, and allowed them to...

Wind Energy Leads to Growth in Welding Market

Welder Dan Wilson Sr. has been creating signs, fabricating metal frames, and welding small and large household items for residents of Salisbury, MA and beyond since 1974....

Kansas City Students Consider Welding Career

A growing number of high school students in the Kansas City area are considering welding careers due to a significant demand for welders in their region. Manufacturers...

Beer, BBQ, and Welding

Welding team and married couple Kelly DeWitt Norman and Travis Norman own a large property in the Texas hill country where they host intensive welding camps for...

New Welding Shield Developed

A group of Montana high school students took welding classes over the past year and were then administered a welding certification test where four of the seven...

Welding: A Great Creative Outlet

Water patrol deputy Chris Guise spends his days patrolling the waters of his parish, going between wetlands and waterways, but in his off time, he spends hours...

Welding Students Help Local Police Department

The bomb squad at the Scranton, PA Police Department had a special request for the Johnson College Welding Training Center. Students were asked to build heavy duty...

Superior Welding Shop Celebrates 100 Years

The original Superior Welding Shop in Hutchinson, Kansas is celebrating its 100-year anniversary this year and is still going strong. The company was started in 1917 by...

Art and Metal

Welder and former logger Mark Looper has combined his two talents into his latest endeavour: creating works of art out of metal and blending them into the...

Students Eager to Learn How to Weld

Hundreds of high school and middle school students lined up to participate in the American Welding Society’s Educational Mobile Unit outside an Angleton, Texas school. The career...

Welding Business Awarded Company of the Year

The Pasco County Jail, near Tampa Bay, Florida, has provided a welding class that has kept all of its former students out of jail after release. Over...

Women Trained to Weld in Prison

A pilot welding program in a Montana women’s prison has successfully graduated 10 women whose welds passed industry standards and gave them a tremendous sense of accomplishment....

Worker's Death Investigated

This week’s welding roundup has a pile of articles on welding jobs and welding education opportunities. It seems that the word is getting around that careers in...

World's Smallest Robotic Arc Welding Cell

As a teenager Lonnie Benn saw his dad welding cylinder regulars, and he soon picked up his own torch, cutting names into metal plates, welding the cars...

$10 Million Dollar Welding project in Juneau, Alaska

The visitors to Juneau, Alaska’s waterfront will soon find a massive whale sculpture that was welded in part by Craig Starmer. The project costs $10 million and...

Welding Offers More Steady Work and Good Hourly Pay

Brookdale Community College and Ocean County College (OCC) in New Jersey have moved 20 new welders from unemployment or unstable careers to new opportunities in the field...

Boy Scouts Learn to Weld

A dozen Boy Scouts attended a welding introduction course at the Wallace Community College’s mobile welding unit in order to learn about the possibilities of a career...

Professor Picks Up Welding after 40 Year Break

Nearly forty years ago Frederick Sachs learned how to weld from a friend while growing up on a farm in New York state’s Hudson Valley. However, Sachs’...

Nevada Division of State Parks Receives Donation

A welding skills competition for SkillsUSA organized by Clayton Madole of Truckee Meadows Community College turned into a major donation to the Nevada Division of State Parks....

Theatre Set Builders Need Welders

You can find welding just about everywhere you look, not just in fabrication shops. If theaters want to build larger, elaborate sets, they’re going to need welders...