{"id":333,"date":"2021-01-21T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awssection.allcovered.io\/alberta\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:23:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T18:23:44","slug":"university-of-alberta-aws-student-chapter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/alberta\/university-of-alberta-aws-student-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alberta AWS Student Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
The University of Alberta AWS Student Chapter welcomes you to learn more about our Student Chapter, its members, and our efforts to live the mission of the American Welding Society: a nonprofit organization with a global mission to\u00a0advance the science, technology and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes, including brazing, soldering and thermal spraying.\u00a0The AWS University of Alberta (UofA) AWS Student Chapter was established in 2010 in Edmonton, Alberta in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Welding and Joining (CCWJ) to provide an opportunity for students to learn about and participate in the welding community. Since its inception, the student chapter has been actively organizing and hosting events including an annual seminar with world renowned speakers, open welding labs for the university, technical talks, CCWJ facility tours, and seminars. The growth and impact the chapter has had on welding in the province in such a short period of time has been extraordinary.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Over the academic year, the AWS student chapter is involved in various aspects of welding education. The CCWJ plays host to the Fundamentals of Welding course in the fall semester (September through December) at the University of Alberta, and the AWS student chapter is involved actively in aiding with all of the demos for the course.<\/p> One of the main aspects of welding education at a post-secondary level that the student chapter is heavily involved in is the mentoring and training of Dean\u2019s Research Award recipients. This award is offered through the Faculty of Engineering and allows undergraduate students at the University of Alberta to complete research projects over the course of an academic year. The executive of the student chapter has played a major role in the mentoring of these students and three of four members of the executive committee for the student chapter are previous recipients of the award on multiple occasions.<\/p> The largest impact that the AWS student chapter has is through the hosting of hands-on Open Labs. These events are run entirely within the CCWJ by the student chapter executive and members. The Open Labs allow undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and staff at the university to try out welding in a comfortable and safe environment. This has allowed exposure to greater than 200 individuals to the joy of welding.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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