Category: Announcement

📢Join Us 11/16 for Northwest Section Technical Meeting: Weld Failure Analysis – Finding Cause📢

Northwest Section Technical Meeting: Weld Failure Analysis – Finding Cause Thursday, November 16th – 6:00 PM CST Materials Evaluation and Eng, Inc. – Plymouth, MN Failures at welded joints may occur for myriad reasons, and metallurgical failure analysis can be an important tool both for understanding failures and for preventing future failures. This talk will discuss…

đź‘‹Join Us 4/27 for Hand Held Laser and Cobot Educational Event + Register Now for 43rd Annual Golf Outing

Join Us for 2 Great Events! Hand Held Laser and Cobot Educational Event  Thursday, April 27th 43rd Annual AWS Northwest Section Golf Outing Monday, June 5th Read on for full details of each event. Hand Held Laser and Cobot Educational Event   Thursday, April 27thCentral McGowan Training Center – St. Cloud, MN Handheld Laser Welding is…

👋Join Us 1/19 for nVent/Hoffman Tour and Section Meeting👨‍🏭👩‍🏭

Section Meeting and nVent/Hoffman Tour   Thursday, January 19th – 5:00 PM CST nVent Hoffman – Anoka, MN Section Meeting at 5pm, dinner to follow, after which we will hear about nVent/Hoffman Enclosures and tour the facility.  About the Venue:Hoffman got its start in Minnesota, back in the 1940’s and their products range from modular cabinets…

AWS District 15 Winter 2022 Newsletter

MESSAGE FROM THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR GREETINGS EVERYONE, I hope everyone had a great Holiday despite having Covid around disrupting our lives. We can only hope that this pandemic will be nearing its end soon. Section Leaders in District 15 have held in-person events this summer and fall, of course following and implementing covid restrictions. The…

Section Meeting Cancelled and Events Postponed

Section Meeting Cancelled and Events Postponed Members of the AWS Northwest Section, AWS has provided the following guidance to Sections and Student Chapters: In light of recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) protocol and to support efforts to keep our members safe and healthy, all AWS Section and Student Chapter events should be canceled until further notice. In…

2019 “Behind the Mask” Welding Competition is best attended in history of Northwest Section!

This year’s Behind the Mask Welding Competition was the best attended in the Northwest Section’s history. We had 152 registered contestants and 30 volunteers that included CWI’s, Committee Members and Students from Ridgewater College. GMAW, SMAW, GTAW, and OFC Results are as follows: Schools that participated: Ridgewater College – Hutchinson Central Lakes College – Brainerd…