WELDING PROFESSIONALS

Profiled Individual:

Caleb Hastings
Robotics Welder
The Shaw Group
Cliffside, NC

Right now I'm working at the site of a powerplant addition in North Carolina. I'm doing orbital welding using robotics.

High School:	Hartsville High School Hartsville, SC
College:	Florence Darlington Technical College Darlington, SC

Profiled Individual:

Carissa Love
2009 Professional WeldersCompetition First Place W
Texas State Technical College
Waco, TX

Carissa made history by becoming the first woman to win the American Welding Society's Professional Welders Competition in November, 2009. Carissa plans to use her $2500 first place prize towards her education. She has one semester remaining and will complete her associate in applied science degree. Carissa is involved in campus activities, serving as the secretary of the AWS Student Chapter.

High School:
College:	Texas State Technical College Waco, TX

Website:

http://www.waco.tstc.edu/wlt/index.php

AWS seminars provide the perfect opportunity to gain new insights, expand your skill set and satisfy your recertification credentials.

Certified Welding Inspection (CWI) Pre-Seminar

The CWI Pre-Seminar is a comprehensive overview of the fundamental concepts and principles that every CWI needs to know. This self-paced, online program contains over 75 hours of instruction specifically designed to provide a deeper understanding of the extensive body of knowledge covered in the AWS one-week live seminar. The CWI Pre-Seminar is comprised of seven engaging, multimedia courses.  Each course is divided into short, easy-to-understand modules that can be accessed at any time of day or night from any computer with an internet connection.

The CWI Pre-Seminar includes the following seven online courses:

• Welding Fundamentals
• Safety in Welding
• Fabrication Math I
• Fabrication Math II 
• Understanding Welding Symbols
• Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgist: Fundamentals
• Science of Non Destructive Testing

For more information, please visit http://awo.aws.org/seminars/precwi/.

Certified Welding Inspection Seminar
Certified Welding Inspector 9-year Recertification
Certified Welding Supervisor Seminar
Certified Radiographic Interpreter

A full list of AWS seminars can be found here.