Anyone who has not had previous exposure to welding, but needs to understand its fundamentals, will benefit from the practical understanding of welding technology offered here.

Each participant should bring a calculator and several pencils or a mechanical pencil to class. Each participant will receive a course notebook, a copy of Modern Welding Technology, 6th Edition, and a copy of AWS A3.0 Standard Welding Terms.

You Will Learn:

• Welding terms and definitions
• Nondestructive testing symbols
• Welding metallurgy
• Heat Treatments, residual stresses and distortion control
• Welding processes and power supplies and the properties of metals
• Welding Procedure Specifications (WPS), including description, documentation, and qualification
• Testing requirements and welder performance qualification and certification.

WELDING DEMONSTRATION
Included with the class will be a practical welding demonstration by Diversified Metal Products - more details to follow. You won't get that applied knowledge taking this course anywhere else.

Course outline is available as a PDF Document (click to view, right click to download).

Managers, engineers, production and maintenance staff, inspectors, welders and others who work with welding.

Albert J. Moore Jr. is an owner of Marion Testing & Inspection. Currently Al is ASNT ACCP Professional Level III certified for five NDT methods. He is also an AWS Senior Certified Welding Inspector and he has been certified by NOCTI as a welding instructor. His consulting practice involves providing inspection services and training programs for welders, inspectors, and engineers involved in the aerospace, petrochemical, pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding, and structural steel industries.

As a member of the Ironworker Union Local #15, he welded and erected steel structures for twenty years while he completed his college studies. He has earned an AS in Civil Technology, a BS in Applied Science, and a MBA. His experience also includes positions as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer and Fabrication Manager for a multinational corporation fabricating pressure vessels and piping as well as a position as the Fabrication Manager for a bridge fabricator.

Albert currently serves on several AWS technical committees. He is a member of the main Certification Committee, Welding Educator Subcommittee, Welding Technician Subcommittee, Structural Steel Inspector Subcommittee and serves on the Committee on Methods of Inspection and Subcommittee on Visual Inspection.

Early registration deadline: Friday, March 25

ASME members, prior to midnight on 3/25 - $1800
ASME members, after 3/25 - $2000

Non members, prior to midnight on 3/25 - $1900
Non members, after 3/25 - $2100

Registrations for the course are final after 3/25. Refunds cannot be granted once the early registration deadline passes.

We are using a new vendor to handle the registration and payment process. If you have questions about the course or issues with the registration process, contact: Steve Reese (reeses@asme.org, 208-569-7658).

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