HOBART INSTITUTE TO TEACH PREP COURSE AND CONDUCT
CERTIFIED WELDING SUPERVISOR EXAM
June 1, 2007 – Troy,
OH - For the
first time, Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
will be offering the one-week course,
Preparation for the AWS Certified Welding Supervisor
Examination beginning September 24,
2007. The class will again be offered again
beginning November 12, 2007.
André Odermatt,
President of the
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, says
enthusiastically, “I am pleased to announce that the
Institute is among the first in the nation to be
approved by the American Welding Society to offer
the course,
Preparation for the AWS Certified Welding Supervisor
Examination, along with providing the exam
in Troy, Ohio. HIWT is uniquely qualified to teach
this course because HIWT formerly offered a similar
course, Supervising Welding, to the welding
industry to help improve quality and productivity.”
Hobart Institute
Technical Welding Instructors Elmer Swank, Chuck
Ford, Nelson Morales, and Russ Shurtz have obtained
the welding supervisor certification (AWS-CWS) and
are well-prepared to teach the new course. The AWS-CWS
examination will be offered on the last day of the
one-week course.
Elmer says, “Your
company can gain a competitive edge by having an AWS-CWS
on your staff to increase productivity, improve
production, processes, quality, and safety, along
with gaining career enhancement and personal
value.”
Based on the AWS
Manual for Certified Welding Supervisors,
the course curriculum being followed by Hobart
Institute instructors provides supervisors,
engineers, managers, designers and detailers,
purchasing personnel, foremen, line leaders, lead
welders, corporate trainers, personnel involved in
bidding and quoting, and others the opportunity to
reduce welding costs and increase profitability for
their employers. This innovative program identifies
a body of knowledge all welding supervisors should
know and understand to increase productivity and
improve weld quality.
In order to qualify
as an AWS Certified Welding Supervisor candidate,
you must:
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Be a high school
graduate or hold a state or military approved high
school equivalency diploma.
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Provide employment information to verify that you
have three years of practical welding experience
in a fabrication, construction, or welding-related
industry. Practical experience in a
welding-related industry is an occupational
function that has a direct relationship with
weldments fabricated to a code, specification, or
other standard, and is directly involved in at
least one of the following: design, production,
construction, inspection, or repair.
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As an alternative, three years of relevant
teaching experience may be substituted for one
year of the practical experience requirement, with
proper documentation. Relevant experience is
considered when you teach full-time or part-time
on a full-time equivalence in a trade, technical
school, college, or university, and that you teach
the occupational skill of welding or subjects
relating to welding, its application, control,
materials, and processes.
The four-hour AWS –
CWS examination will cover such things as personnel
management, supervision, codes and quality
management requirements, qualification of personnel,
safety, welding preparation and fabrication,
planning, control, equipment, and quality management
and quality control. It is a requirement for the
exam that applicants for the program apply and be
accepted by the American Welding Society
Certification Dept.
The Certified Welding
Supervisor Examination will be given on the fifth
day of the course to accepted applicants. The test
will be given in Troy, Ohio to only those people
authorized by AWS. Contact the Hobart Institute for
an application packet at 1-800-332-9448, ext. 5215
or 937-332-5215 or download from
http://www.welding.org/CWS-Packet.pdf
.
An additional application fee is required for the
examination PAYABLE TO THE AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY.
For more information
about Hobart Institute courses, schedules, and
registration, check
http://www.welding.org
or call 1-800-332-9448 and request a Certified
Welding Supervisor packet.
Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, dedicated to
welding training and education excellence,
is a nonprofit educational facility located at
400 Trade Square East, Troy, OH 45373
1-800-332-9448
hiwt@welding.org
http://www.welding.org
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