Date of Event: 05/08/2026 Location: Rio Hondo College 3600 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, CA 90601 Number of Attendees: 200 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Rio Staff and AWS Volunteers! Event Summary: On May 8th the Los Angeles/Inland Empire and Long Beach/Orange County Sections held an annual technical meeting and welding competition at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, CA. The event included…
Date of Event: 03/19/2026 Location: Encore Gas & Supply, 1631 S. Marigold Place, Ontario, CA 91761 Number of Attendees: Approximately 300 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Nick Martinez, District 21 Director. Awards ceremony Event Summary: The LA/IE & LB/OC AWS Sections co-hosted a student night and welding competition in Ontario, CA on March 19th. We had nearly 30 exhibitors, 40…
Date of Event: 12/07/2025 Location: Fronius Riverside. 7750 Lincoln Avenue, Ste 100 Riverside, CA 92504 Number of Attendees: 40 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Nick Martinez, District 21 Director LA/IE Year-End Newsletter LA/IE Year-End Newsletter
Date of Event: 09/25/2025 Location: 2600 North Columbia Center Blvd. Richland WA, 99352 Number of Attendees: 26 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Garry Cannell Technical Fellow with Fluor Corporation in the area of welding and materials engineering. He is currently assigned as a staff consultant to the CPCCo, Cs/Sr Capsule Dry Storage Project at the Hanford Site Event Summary: The meeting…
Date of Event: 05/16/2025 Location: Richland, WA Number of Attendees: 9 Event Summary: Section Awards and Section Elections were held at our end of the year meeting. Myles Considine received the 2025 Inland Empire CWI of the year award. Shay Jones down into the First Vice chair position and Nick Blanchard became the Section Chair. There was…
Date of Event: 10/17/2024 Location: OXARC – 716 S. Oregon Ave. Pasco, WA 99301 Number of Attendees: 26 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Name: Sonny Knotts Title: Director of OperationsPresentation: Process for receiving, testing, filling and mixing your industrial welding gas consumables. Event Summary: Over the course of 32.5 years, OXARC employee Sonny Knotts has learned the ins and the outs…