⚠️Join Us 1/12 as Walter Sperko Presents Basic Steel Welding Metallurgy?‍??‍?

By Category: Meeting Announcement
AWS Western Carolina Section

January 2023 Technical Meeting

Walter Sperko

Discussing

Basic Steel Welding Metallurgy

Thursday, January 12th – 6:00 PM EST

Fluor Campus @ Fluor University – Greenville, SC

The ASME Greenville Section and the Western Carolina Section of the American Welding Society join forces for this special program featuring Walter Sperko discussing Basic Steel Welding Metallurgy.

Date & Time

Thursday, January 12th
6:00 – 9:00 PM

Location

 Fluor University – Fluor Campus 
8900 Woods Crossing Road
Greenville, SC 29607 

This meeting will be shared on Zoom for the AWS members
that cannot attend in person.

Please sign up on Eventbrite in order to obtain the Zoom link.

Register Now!

Cost: $25 adult AWS or ASME members
$30 adult non AWS or ASME members
PDH Credits will be awarded.

Meal: A delicious meal will be catered by Caesar’s Mediterranean Grill
We request that reservations are made in advance through Eventbrite so that we can have an accurate count for catering.

Sign up on AWS Western Carolina Section’s Eventbrite page

Presentation:

The AWS Western Carolina Section will host a joint meeting with the ASME Greenville Section. We are privileged to have Walter Sperko, P.E., President of Sperko Engineering in Greensboro NC, speaking on “Basic Steel Welding Metallurgy”.

Mr. Sperko’s presentation will focus on the following questions and issues:

  • What is steel
  • Why is it so versatile
  • Phase changes and hardenability
  • What happens during welding
  • Controlling properties – heat treatment
  • Austenitic Stainless Steels

Walter J. Sperko, P.E., has extensive experience in welding engineering, metallurgical engineering, design, failure analysis, and quality assurance. His industrial experience is primarily with piping, pressure vessels, storage tanks and structural steel. He has a BA and a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is a professional Engineer registered in North Carolina and other states.

He is a long-time member and past-chairman of ASME Boiler Code Standards Committee IX, Welding, Brazing and Fusing Qualifications and a member of several of its subgroups, a member of Section III Standards Committee, a member of the B31 Standards committee and past-chairman of AWS TAC.

Mr. Sperko teaches publicly offered courses worldwide in piping design, analysis and fabrication and has taught a 3-day class on how to use ASME Section IX regularly since 1981. He has published articles in the Welding Journal, Welding, and The Fabricator. He is a Fellow of the ASME and a Counselor of the AWS. He holds Five US patents.

For additional information contact wcarolina@awssections.org