Weld-Ed Offers Subsidized Summer Training Courses for Welding Educators

Thinking about Summer?  Ruminating over travel plans?  If you're a welding educator, you must be trying to decide which Weld-Ed Educator Training course you're going to register for, and where you'll travel to complete the course!

Weld-Ed is offering subsidized Professional Development opportunities all over the country this Summer, from "Welding Metallurgy" in California and North Dakota, and "Design/Assembly/Robotic Welding" in South Carolina, to "Weld Quality and Inspection, Welding Codes, Specifications and Safety" in Texas and Ohio, and "Cutting and Joining Processing" in Utah, Illinois and Hawaii.

INFO & REGISTRATION
LOCATIONS & DATES
CONTACT:  866-529-9353

Learn all about course offerings and locations HERE.

Virtual Reality Welding Simulator: The Future Arrives at Weld-Ed

Today's students live in a world of push-button virtual technology that enables them to snowboard down the Alps, quarterback a pro football team to victory, pilot a jumbo jet over the Atlantic, and race a Formula One car through the streets of Paris.

Now, through the use of the same virtual reality technology, students can walk on to an on-screen job site and become immersed in a welding project. 

Weld-Ed recently purchased two VRTEX® 360 virtual reality arc welding machines, permanently housing one unit at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, and utilizing the second simulator as a mobile unit that will travel to partner colleges.

Check out the video HERE.

Weld-Ed Teams with AWS to Drive Home Career Opportunities in Welding

If an ongoing national media campaign isn't enough to promote the need for 240,000 qualified welders by 2019, then perhaps a monstrous 53-foot tractor trailer will help drive home the message.

The 18-wheeled "Careers in Welding" mobile exhibit, emblazoned with Weld-Ed, AWS and Lincoln Electric sponsor logos, is a nationwide educational outreach program that hits the road in 2012 to attract students and second-career adults to the many opportunities available in the welding field.

The expandable trailer features 650 square feet of exhibit space, including interactive displays and virtual reality arc welding simulators.  The hands-on exhibit enables the public to learn about the various career paths in welding, presents educational scholarship information, showcases the different welding disciplines and enables visitors to handle a variety of welding related tools.

Through this mobile exhibit, it is hoped that the public learns more about this well-paying, highly specialized field and the tremendous opportunities available to those seeking a career in welding.

STEP INSIDE THE CAREERS IN WELDING TRAILER HERE.

SAVE THE DATE:
National Welding Educators Conference Slated for November in Las Vegas

The FABTECH 2011 numbers are in:  35,457 attendees; 80 countries represented; 1,300 exhibitors taking up 522,000 square feet of exhibit space... and 50 ecstatic educators who attended Weld-Ed's fourth annual National Welding Educators Conference in the midst of the FABTECH mayhem.

At the conference, Weld-Ed was pleased to present each attendee with an exclusive "Educator Resource Tablet" which contained a custom-built app that linked users to industry resources, event calendars, contact information, organizational newsletters, curriculum sources and affiliate partner information.  The seven-inch tablet also contained industry whitepapers and presentations, and links to important welding resources online.

The 2012 National Welding Educators Conference promises to be even better than last year.  It will take place during the FABTECH expo in Las Vegas this November.

Keep your eyes on the Weld-Ed website for conference dates, updates and information.  We'll see you in Las Vegas!

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Central Advisory Board
will Steer Weld-Ed Progress

Weld-Ed is in the process of forming a Central Advisory Board which will be led by Dr. James F. Key, Past President of the American Welding Society.

The seven-member CAB will be comprised of welding industry and educational leaders charged with the responsibility of providing advice and assistance on matters pertaining to the National Center for Welding Education and Training, including defining the general aims of Weld-Ed's educational policy and fostering ideas and feedback related to the organization's operations, policy and curriculum. 

Look for a formal announcement on Weld-Ed's Central Advisory Board, coming soon.