American Welding Society:

Texas A&M University Chapter

Houston AWS Meeting

November Meeting is Student Night!

We highly encourage everyone to attend this month's Houston meeting, not only is the topic very interesting, and great food, but every student that attends will receive a free nice gift as well. November is also Awards Night. For those who received the Dr. Morgan Scholarship, Dr. Morgan should be attending and it would be nice for him to meet the students who were awarded scholarships in his name.

November 19th trip to Houston AWS Meeting

It's great food, interesting information, and a great way to interact with people in the industry. (Can you say internships & jobs? ;-) )

SPEAKER: Dan Allford, ARC Specialties Inc.

TOPIC: Hot Wire TIG and Plasma Welding

Joining and overlaying applications of hot wire TIG (GTAW-HW) and plasma (PTAW) welding. These two processes are underutilized due to a general lack of familiarity. Properly applied these processes can solve welding problems which MIG, cold wire Tig, and Sub arc cannot. Dan Allford will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both processes. The talk will include an explanation of how hot wire Tig and Plasma Welding works and the equipment needed. Using examples of real world projects, Dan will explain why the hot wire Tig, or plasma was selected over more conventional processes. Examples include hot wire Tig welding of Inconel® for corrosion prevention, key hole plasma welding of titanium, powder fed plasma welding of Stellite® for metal to metal wear, and powder fed plasma welding of tungsten carbide for metal to rock abrasion resistance.

Dan Allford is the president of ARC Specialties, a Houston company specializing in welding automation. Dan is a graduate of the University of Houston, with 24 years experience ranging from plasma welding cobalt alloys in Russia to buried arc welding of aluminum armor plate.

LOCATION:

Brady's Landing
8505 Cypress St, Houston, TX 77012
Phone: (713) 923-9488

PLEASE RSVP HERE:

http://www.awshouston.org/news.htm

To help the Houston Chapter plan room size and food amounts, please RSVP with them in advance.

Please let us know...

Please RSVP with Dave Mason to confirm if you plan on going to the meeting, so we can anticipate the number of people going to reserve the correct size van.

DIRECTIONS:

Take Highway 6 south to State Highway 290
Take overpass to get onto 290 south to Houston
At I-610/I-10 interchange, take I-10 Downtown exit
Stay on I-10 until you reach I-610 again near Houston Ship Channel
Take I-610 South exit towards Pasadena (Budweiser Plant is on your right)
After you pass over the Houston Ship Channel bridge, take the Lawndale/ Texas-225 West Exit (#30C)
Turn right onto Broadway Street
After about half a mile you will reach an underpass, once you go through the underpass turn right at the next street, Cypress Street. There should be a sign painted on the fence for Brady's Landing visible at the corner.
You will pass over a small bridge then Brady's Landing will be on the left.

Map to Brady's Landing

TRANSPORTATION:

Transportation will be provided this month only.

We should be leaving from in front of Fermier Bldg. at approximately 3:45-4 PM Wednesday, October 15th, to go to the Houston meeting which starts at 6:30 PM. We expect to arrive back in College Station around 11 PM.

IMPORTANT!:

Due to new travel rules, we need to provide certain information to the university before we leave. We need from each of those traveling to Houston:

	Full Name
	Student ID #
	Emergency Contact Person
	Emergency Contact Phone #

Here are copies of the release /contact information form:

MS Word Document: Release.doc

Adobe PDF Format: Release.PDF

Please print and fill them out before departure. Thank you!

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