Our American Welding Society Eastern Iowa Section 162 will be having a tour at Silver Hawk Fabrication in Muscatine, Iowa on Tuesday, February 27. Students, industry members, AWS members, and anyone else interested in attending and seeing what it’s like to be a part of the American Welding Society or to see what Silver Hawk…
Second Annual AWS / Eastern Iowa Community College Welding Competition Wednesday, May 17th – 9:00 AM Blong Tech Center – Davenport, IA Second annual AWS welding contest at Blong Technology / Eastern Iowa Community College. The event has filled to the maximum capacity with 58 students from eleven local schools. Several local businesses will be…
Aluminum Welding Seminar Thursday, April 13th – 8:00 AM Blong Tech Center – Davenport, IA Join the Iowa Section members for an aluminum-welding seminar, presented by Tony Anderson & Mike Vandenberg of ITW Welding. This will include hands on welding demonstrations with Miller Electric equipment. View the Meeting Announcement Date & Time Thursday, April…
Rotary Friction Welding Seminar Tuesday, March 7th – 5:30 PM Blong Tech Center – Davenport, IA View the Meeting Announcement John Fischer, President of American Friction Welding will present on rotary friction and inertia welding. This is a solid-state process able to join two metal components by applying rotational motion and forging pressure to…
Classroom Visit:U of I Bicycle Building Class Wednesday, February 15th – 10:30 AM University of Iowa – Iowa City, IA View the Meeting Announcement Steve McGuire, professor of metal arts and 3-D design and Studio Division coordinator in the UI School of Art and Art History, created a curriculum for the class in 2010…
Facility Tour of ALM Positioners Tuesday, November 1st – 5:30pm ALM Positioners – Rock Island, IL Positioners save your team time, make your operation safer, and can help increase productivity. Headquartered in a state-of-the-art, 24,000-square-foot facility in Rock Island, Illinois, ALM Positioners was founded by Douglas Grunnet with the dream of redefining how manufacturers assemble…
CANCELLED Facility Tour of XL Specialized Trailers September 20 – 5:30pm CDT XL Specialized Trailers – Manchester, IA Please Note: The AWS Eastern Iowa Section meeting has to cancel tonight for unforeseeable circumstances – we will reschedule this facility tour in the near future. XL Specialized Trailers is a leading designer and manufacturer of highly…
Tour of JW Bell in Cedar Rapids and information about Iowa Apprenticeship program November 16 – 6:00pm CST JW Bell, 1755 I Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 Plant tour of JW Bell (https://www.jwbell.com/) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa started in 1923 is a well-known aggregate processing specialist and the company continues to broaden its…
Section Scholarships, Planning and Welding Equipment Demonstrations Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 6:00pm Come join us at the Lincoln Electric regional office in Bettendorf, Iowa to discuss the availability scholarships available at the local level, how our Section can support the welding classes and students in our District, suggestions for meetings this year along with…
How can we make this Section beneficial to you? We will ask everyone to respond to this newsletter in some way, so that we can best make this AWS Section 162 be beneficial to all our members. Greeting to all members, I hope this newsletter finds everyone in good health and spirits. This has been…