Date of Event: 08/26/2025 Location: Twin Peaks, 200 Park Manor Drive, Pittsburgh, PA Number of Attendees: 12 Event Summary: The Section Executive Committee met and discussed an expanded initiative to bring in young members, to include students, educators & employers from the industry. Derek Supanik, who is the Lead Welding Instructor at Parkway West Career and Technology Center,…
Date of Event: 07/29/2025 Location: Twin Peaks, 200 Park Manor Drive, Pittsburgh, PA. Number of Attendees: 5 Event Summary: The Pittsburgh section executive board met to welcome in the new Chairman Huck Hughes. Items discussed during the meeting were possible new venues for meetings, plant tours, ways to engage schools for student memberships and potential speakers…
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…