Lakeland Community College Encourages Welding N.O.W. This welding program offers new skills, oneonone assistance, and welding certificates (N.O.W.) to prepare students for highpaying careers in the manufacturing sector Lakeland Community College can be found nestled in the suburbs in Kirtland, Ohio, only 30 min from downtown Cleveland. In the past five years, the college’s industrial welding program has garnered national praise, as its students have consistently achieved top-ten ranking for welding in the annual SkillsUSA competition. Earlier this year, one of its students, Connor Roberts, won first place. The college also received recognition in 2015 for its inclusion in The Manufacturing Institute’s M-List, which identifies schools that teach industry standard manufacturing while offering certificate endorsements. The program’s recent achievements stand out, for it had been “dormant for a dozen or so years” prior to 2005, stated Linn Gahr, Lakeland’s Welding N.O.W. project manager. Due to the ever-growing workforce demand for welders, in 2012 Lakeland Community College developed an associate of technical studies degree in industrial welding in partnership with Lincoln Electric. The degree features courses in technical welding, American Welding Society (AWS) certification preparation, and supervision and management. To help students succeed in the pro- 92 WELDING JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2016 LEARNING TRACK BY KATIE PACHECO THE AMERICAN WELDER Fig. 1 — Secondyear student Paul Scott practices GTAW. (Photo by Jessica Novak.)
Welding Journal | December 2016
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