Lincoln Electric’s manager of engineering services and welding design consultant, Duane Miller, will be one of the instructors at three presentations of Lincoln’s Blodgett Welding Design Technical Training course this year.

Lincoln Electric has announced the 2010 schedules for its Blodgett Welding Design Technical Training course and its Welding Educator’s Workshop. Both programs will presented at the Lincoln Electric Welding School, at the company’s Cleveland headquarters.

More than 15,000 engineers have attended the Blodgett Welding Design Technical Training course over the past 50 years. It is taught by Omer W. Blodgett, Sc.D., P.E., Lincoln’s senior design consultant, and Duane K. Miller, Sc.D., P.E., manager of engineering services and welding design consultant.

This intensive program is intended for engineers and individuals responsible for reducing costs and improving quality and productivity through efficient design of steel weldments, for metal product applications. This includes machine tools, transportation, material handling, agricultural and construction equipment, as well as structural steel applications.

Seminar attendees will learn about topics essential to steel weldment design for structural and manufactured products, including:

• Basics of welded connections
• How to determine weld size
• Details of welded connections
• Principals of connection design
• Design for torsional loading
• Design for shock loading
• Design for fatigue loading
• Introduction to fracture mechanics
• How to obtain ductile behavior
• Welding metallurgy and cracking
• Distortion causes and cures
• Case studies
• Nondestructive testing of welds
• Cost reduction ideas
• AWS and AISC codes
• Welding processes
• Welding demonstrations
• A tour of Lincoln’s machine division.

This course will be offered three times this year — April 20-23, June 15-18 and Oct. 12-15. The cost of the 3-1/2 day program is $595. For more information or to register, contact Lincoln Electric at (216) 383-2409 or visit www.lincolnelectric.com.

Lincoln Electric’s Welding Educator’s Workshop is targeted specifically at instructors and welding educators. The program focuses on welding safety and the four basic welding processes — SMAW, GMAW, GTAW and FCAW. It aims to improve participants’ process knowledge and skills, in the classroom and in the lab, with an update on welding technology.

The program is devised to feature classroom instruction for 60 percent of the time, and hands-on welding experience for 40-percent of the time.

Emphasis will be placed on Lincoln Electric’s Nextweld^® advanced technologies. Other topics include the oxy-fuel process, plasma arc cutting, basic metallurgy and the welding of aluminum and stainless steel. There will also be a breakout session on the importance of high technology in the classroom. In addition, Lincoln will discuss the support provided by the company for the No Child Left Behind™ program.

Although the course is geared toward educators, it is also open to end users and distributors, too.

Complimentary training curriculums, teaching aids, technical support and product discounts will be available to educators. Participants are encouraged to bring their own welding equipment for the best hands-on experience.

The four-day seminar will take place July 12-16, 2010, and is limited to 24 attendees. The registration cost is $200. To register, contact Lincoln Electric at (216) 383-2409 or visit www.lincolnelectric.com.