A ‘Girls-Only’ trade class at Oregon’s Sherwood High School attracted over 120 students, which was double the expected enrollment. The class is called ‘Imagine, Design, & Build...

When Ford switched from steel components to aluminum components on its assembly lines in Dearborn, MI, the company lost 10 weeks of production and spent $359 million...

Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines on November 8, 2013, leaving over 7,000 dead or missing, while also destroying the livelihood of many farmers. Coconut farmers were hit...

George W. Settle III visited the village of Kehale, Lebanon in order to teach the older children in a home for orphans how to weld, but he...

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...

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...

The United Auto Workers union connected to Ford will be offering welding training to veterans in need of work in the Detroit area. The latest welding course...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

Peter Helmschrott had been a day laborer and a former prison inmate. When he tried to get his life back on track, he could only find jobs...

Zaddie Johnson grew up in Alabama working on farms, picking cotton and hauling hay. She had to work alongside her brothers, and when she married her husband,...

When Kaleb McCartney graduated from high school, he knew that he wanted to build things, and according to the Sequim Gazette, welding quickly became his dream career....

Patrick Dufault wanted to become a welder for as far back as he can remember. However, a case of primary dyslexia caused Dufault to struggle in school...

It’s true that fences make good neighbors, but good welders can also make good fences. In the city of Kokomo, Brian Mikesell, a teacher at the Kokomo...

Welding isn’t just for pipelines and hot rods. In fact, some welders have found ways to donate their welding skills to the community by creating lasting memories...

Some may call the welding class at Owens Community College organized chaos. Some may not even call it a class. Whatever you call it, a bunch of...

After 30 years as Missoula’s Mr. Fix It, Bill Shorten is finally retiring. What did this welder do in his 30 years? The Missoulian reports: “Jack Stucky,...