FABTECH • Good attendance – Attendance policy and enforcement of policy • Time management – Staying on task and timed assignments • Working in a team projects • Leadership strawboss 9:00 a.m. — 9:45 a.m. The ABCs of Starting and Running a Private Welding School Dave Lynnes — Lynnes Welding Training, Inc. It is no secret that the United States has a significant shortage of skilled welders, which is expected to grow as the current welder workforce ages and retires. While statesponsored technical vocational training schools provide training options for welders, there is a considerable gap that still cannot be met by those schools. Lynnes Welding Training was founded in 2006 and over the past ten years has experienced the pains and benefits of growing a successful privately owned for-profit welding school. During that time period, our knowledge base of ‘what not to do’ is as important as our knowledge base of ‘what to do’. The objective of this session is to provide attendees an outline of the steps taken to start and operate a successful private welding school. This session will cover and include the following topics: • Necessary business basics, including state licensing/ approvals; business formation; banking needs; and other worthwhile advice. • Courses and curriculum needs: how to ascertain needs/ demand in your region; how to develop; and resources to use. • Equipment and facility needs: how to prioritize needs vs. wishes; how to scale up; and tips on how to utilize other sources to help meet your needs. • Marketing - the never ending critical process; and the funnel basics. • Key governmental relationships and knowledge for your success. • Key industry relationships for your success. • Staffing needs: how to scale up; who makes a good instructor; and training investments you’ll need to expect. • Becoming an accredited school: a marathon, not a sprint. • Becoming a Department of Education Title IV approved school: the key to external funding for students. This session will provide initial information to help guide and inspire interested attendees who wish to start their own private welding school. It is hoped there will be question and answer time as well. 9:45 a.m. — 10:00 a.m. BREAK AND NETWORKING 10:00 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. Empowering Students with Computational Modeling Tools for Welding Design and Analysis Adams Memorial Membership Award Lecture Professor Wei Zhang — The Ohio State University Just over two decades ago, computational modeling-based welding design and analysis was a “niche” field limited to operations in high-end computational facilities by analysts specialized in finite element method and computational fluid dynamics. With the advances in computational hardware 82 WELDING JOURNAL / NOVEMBER 2016 and simulation codes, modeling of welding processes and welded materials increasingly becomes a routine part of product design and process development in many industries. The rapid adoption of computer-aided engineering (CAE) presents new challenges and opportunities to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in welding engineering. This talk discusses the teaching of computational weld modeling at The Ohio State University. In addition, examples of utilizing computational modeling tools in graduate dissertation research are presented including 1) prediction of heat-affected zone tempering in temper bead welding, and 2) understanding of balling defect formation in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. 11:00 a.m. — 12:00 noon Making Advisory Boards Work through Industry Partnerships Plummer Memorial Lecture Scott L. Burdge, R. G. Drage Career Technical Center Welding advisory boards are worth their weight in gold if you take the opportunity to use them to develop industry partnerships. Industry partnerships benefit everyone involved — the student, the school, the instructor, and local industry partners. This session will focus on the formation of an industrybased advisory board and its impact on the success of the welding program at R. G. Drage Career and Technical Center. 12:00 noon — 1:30 p.m. LUNCH AND PRESENTATION SPONSORED BY HYPERTHERM, INC. 12:30 p.m. — 1:15 p.m. Cutting Technologies Jim Colt — Hypertherm, Inc. Discussion of the state of plasma cutting technology today, both handheld plasma as well as CNC (mechanized) plasma cutting “state of the art.” A brief description of other cutting processes describing how each process works, then a detailed analysis of the same part being cut with oxyfuel, air plasma, oxygen plasma, high-definition class plasma, fiber laser, and abrasive water jet cutting systems. A summary showing dimensional comparisons as well as calculated cutting costs of a particular part cut from ½-in. steel. Question and answer session to follow. 1:30 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. Reasons Why Welds Crack, But Were Afraid to Ask Larry R. Zirker — Zirker Technology and Consulting A discussion on why welds crack on carbon steels. Lecture touches on fatigue, stress points from weld shape, causes of both hot and cold cracks, but half of the lecture focuses on why the HAZ gets “harder” — lack of preheat for the alloy, an understandable review of the Iron Carbon Phase Diagram, cooling rate and why the combined influences of weld shape, carbon content, and a hard HAZ directly influences cold cracking. This lecture is a compilation of years of welding experience, based on direct knowledge of cracking, and presented as a practical explanation at an intellectual level for understanding by welders and welding instructors because that is where the rubber meets the road.
Welding Journal | November 2016
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