welding course for engineers?
welding course for engineers?
(OP)
I'm a mechanical engineer a couple of years out of school. I design and specify weldments from time to time as part of my work, but my only training with welds so far comes from on-the-job learning. Sidebar - why don't they cover the practical stuff in school? I feel like a welding course and a machining course would have made me about 10000% more useful when I started. My school had some options for this but there were limited seats and I couldn't fit them into my schedule.
Anyway, one of our senior engineers has mentioned a "welding for engineers" course he's been meaning to take, but I can't find any such thing offered by AWS or the local welding schools.
I've considered taking a basic introductory welding course but really I'm more interested in something a little bit higher-level - besides reviewing things like symbols and conventions, maybe some detail about compatibility of metals, basic weld technology, conventions and best practices for designing / specifying welds, AWS vs ISO/DIN... I know that's all over the place, I'm just trying to come up with topics that might be useful in such a course.
I found links to http://www.welding.org/technical/courselist.html in previous discussions here; the non-welder course sounds like the right kind of thing but maybe a little lacking in technical depth. Can anyone suggest other courses or resources (welding for dummies?) that might be useful? Bonus points for something that's offered in the Baltimore area...
Cheers,
-Mark
Anyway, one of our senior engineers has mentioned a "welding for engineers" course he's been meaning to take, but I can't find any such thing offered by AWS or the local welding schools.
I've considered taking a basic introductory welding course but really I'm more interested in something a little bit higher-level - besides reviewing things like symbols and conventions, maybe some detail about compatibility of metals, basic weld technology, conventions and best practices for designing / specifying welds, AWS vs ISO/DIN... I know that's all over the place, I'm just trying to come up with topics that might be useful in such a course.
I found links to http://www.welding.org/technical/courselist.html in previous discussions here; the non-welder course sounds like the right kind of thing but maybe a little lacking in technical depth. Can anyone suggest other courses or resources (welding for dummies?) that might be useful? Bonus points for something that's offered in the Baltimore area...
Cheers,
-Mark





RE: welding course for engineers?
The first book I'd recommend as one of the best, to-the-point resources you can have is "Metals and How to Weld Them." Its one of the Lincoln books, so it's very cheap, and covers topics such as mechanical properties, methods of welding, fundamentals of metallurgy, welding various steels, aluminums, alloys, and exotics, heat treating, as well as common welding problems and what makes a "good" weld.
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Also gives you something else you can "fall back on", eh?
Rod
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Here is one that I found by searching "welding courses +state". State meaning your location. These type courses are very intense
at times, buckets full of information.
I was told about this particular one by a ex colleague who works for New York Transit,
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When I took it quite a few years ago there was a little tiny bit of hands-on at the very end (during the tour). The classroom portion covered a lot of what you ask about in your 3rd paragraph.
Hg
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The link is:
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It might be what you are looking for.
Best regards - Al
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