MEETING APRIL 22, 2009
STUDENT NIGHT & TOUR of the
Divers Academy International
DETAILS:
Approximately fifty welding students and their instructors will be attending the Philadelphia Section Student Night. The night will feature a tour of the new Divers Academy in Erial New Jersey.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Board Meeting for the Philadelphia Section American Welding Society
6:30pm – Dinner and tour by Director Tamara Brown
Lakeside Business Park
1500 Liberty Place
Erial, NJ 08081-1139
http://www.diversacademy.com/index.html
$20.00 for Members
Free to Students (invitation ONLY)
LIMITED SEATING. RESERVATIONS A MUST
Please email Reservations to
Frank@excelweld.com
STUDENT NIGHT
Twenty-one students representing 8 schools from South Jersey participated in the annual Section student welding contest. Our section has set aside this night to honor these participants as well as the seniors and to invite our members and friends to share their experences within the welding industry.
Tour of The Divers Academy International
With Tamara Brown
Divers Academy International offers a comprehensive and practical education program that prepares and places commercial divers in the United States and around the world. At the conclusion of Divers Academy International’s unique five-month program, commercial diving graduates have multiple high-level certifications and hundreds of clock hours of experience combined with classroom training.
Our program is all-inclusive, delivering the full-spectrum of dive skills by a faculty with years of global commercial diving experience.
Director's Message of Divers Academy International
by Tamara Brown
Welcome to the exciting and rapidly growing world of commercial diving. As a result of recent and widespread natural disasters, as well as the continued growth in the offshore energy business, our industry is expanding, bringing an increasing demand for commercial divers and rising salaries. With hurricane relief work in the Southeast, infrastructure repair work in the Northeast, and oil operations work offshore, the majority of our graduates are employed at the conclusion of our five-month program.
Our program is all-inclusive, (full story here)
History of Divers Academy International
Divers Academy International was founded in 1977, to meet the high demand for commercial divers in the offshore oil industry and the growing need for divers in the inland harbors and rivers of the world.
The dynamic nature of the industry leads to continual program advances. Remotely operated vehicles and non-destructive Inspectrons programs were added to the curriculum in 1991. Bridge inspection requirements increased in the mid 1990’s,
Chairman' Message
Greetings,
Last month’s meeting was a roundtable discussion on welding problems and solutions that took some interesting turns. The scheduled speaker cancelled for health reasons and we filled the meeting with an interesting talk. Our last meeting for this year is the student night that will be held as a (invitation only for the students) that competed in our welding competition ran by our student chairman Dan Roskiewich. It will be held at the diver's academy in Erial, NJ on April 22. Members are welcome but please email us so we have a count for the caterer. It has been a real honor being your chairman this past year, I highly recommend it.
Respectfully
Gary Atherton
Philadelphia Section Chairman AWS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTE: THIS MEETING HAS A LARGE TURNOUT ! E- Mail your RSVP to
Frank Simone Frank@excelweld.com as soon as possible
CWS Seminar and Exam in Philadelphia Aug. 31 - Sep. 5, 2009
CWI Seminar and Exam in Philadelphia Aug. 2 - Aug. 8, 2009
FabTech & AWS Welding Show in Chicago Nov. 15-18 2009
Contact the National AWS web site. for more information at the following link
We Hope that you find this electronic newsletter to be an added benefit to your membership to the American Welding society as well as to provide some tools that you can use on a daily basis.
The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919 as a multifaceted, nonprofit organization with a goal to advance the science, technology and application of welding and related joining disciplines.
The careers that stem from welding as well as the projected shortages of welders in the near future provide a wonderful forum to give back to an art and trade that we all have benefited from.
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AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY
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EDUCATION CORNER
Approximately fifty welding students and there instructors will be attending the Philadelphia Section Student Night. The night will feature a tour of the new Divers Academy in Erial New Jersey.
I would like to take a moment to thank the instructors, and the AWS Board for there continueing support of the student welding contest and the anual student night activities.
Respectfully Yours,
Dan Roskiewich
Education Chairman
Special thanks to Diamond Tool (represented by Lou Martelli), and Lincoln Electric (represented by Bob Sommer) for the generous table full of prizes were donated.
Discussed at our last meeting
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