Date of Event: 03/20/2025 Location: Steamfitters Training Center, Local 449, Harmony, PA. Number of Attendees: 125 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Dennis Klingman Lincoln Electric Welder, Jamie Borkowski Special Adviser Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section held a student day at the Steamfitters training center which allowed students from area High Schools to attend the awards presented to the student weld off…
Date of Event: 02/11/2025 Location: CCAC West Campus, 1000 McKee Rd. Oakdale, PA 15071 Number of Attendees: 27 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Daniel Craigo – Section Manager M&P-NDI at Northrop Grumman Event Summary: The Section held its annual joint AWS / ASNT meeting. The meeting started with dinner for all in attendance, catered by Cooked Goose in Oakdale, PA. A…
Date of Event: 11/14/2024 Location: Teutonic Mannerchor, 857 Phineas Street, Pittsburgh, PA. Number of Attendees: 24 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Joshua Shuman – Carnegie Mellon student Forge Club PresidentChris Wilson- NobleClad Manager of Research and Development Event Summary: The Pittsburgh Section held its annual joint AWS/ASM meeting. During the meeting two presentations were shown. The first presentation was…
Date of Event: 01/14/2025 Location: Lemont Restaurant 1114 Grandview Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. Number of Attendees: 26 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Jason Hurst, Fabrication Manager, NuScale Power Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section January meeting honored Past Chairmen. A presentation of Modern Welding Technologies for Small Modular Reactors (SMR’s) was provided by Jason Hurst who is the Fabrication Manager for NuScale Power.…
Date of Event: 10/08/2024 Location: Steamfitters Local 449 Training Center, Harmony, PA Number of Attendees: 18 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Jim Sekely Event Summary: Jim Sekely gave a presentation on Standard Welding Procedure Specifications (SWPS) and the associated Procedure Qualification Record (PQR) that supports them. Also discussed was the format, application, and joint design. Jim is a member of the…
Date of Event: 09/10/2024 Location: Universal Stainless, 600 Mayer St. Bridgeville, PA. 15017 Number of Attendees: 75 Event Summary: The Pittsburgh Section along with the Parkway West CTC Student Section attended a plant tour at the Universal Stainless facility in Bridgeville, PA., which produces semi-finished and finished specialty steel long products and plate, including stainless steel, tool…
Date of Event: 08/13/2024 Location: Aracri’s Greentree Inn 1006 Greentree Rd. Pittsburgh, PA. 15220 Number of Attendees: 10 Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section held a meeting to finalize the 2024 – 2025 agenda. Discussion included the possibility of purchasing weld flaw samples for the AWS Pittsburgh technical library, to be a teaching aid in the CWI Exam…
Date of Event: 07/17/2024 Location: Bronze Hood Grill & Lounge, 5920 Steubenville Pike, McKees Rocks, PA. 15136 Number of Attendees: 12 Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section held its first meeting of the 2024-2025 year. The agenda items included Don Stoll Section Chair presenting a summary of the past years meetings, take aways from the district conference in…
Date of Event: 05/10/2024 Location: Mon Valley Career & Technology Center Number of Attendees: 5 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Kerry Sabo, Sky Oxygen Event Summary: The Mon Valley CTC was presented a new Lincoln Welding Machine donated by Sky Oxygen and presented by Kerry Sabo along with his father Richard Sabo. Richard is a former Industrial Arts Teacher of California…
Date of Event: 03/14/2024 Location: KTA-Tator Inc., 145 Enterprise Drive, Pittsburgh, PA. 15275 Number of Attendees: 22 Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Hitachi High-Tech: John Kurtz Regional Manager.FALK PLI: Jerrod Bolz General Mgr-Eastern Region, Jeff Irwin Engineer. Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section held its annual joint meeting with the Pittsburgh chapter of ASNT. The group enjoyed two presentations during the annual…