Welding School Meets Industry's Need for Highly Skilled Workers
Eastern Wyoming College is located in Torrington, WY and serves
1,500 students from Wyoming and neighboring Nebraska, South
Dakota, Colorado and Montana. The college is well known for
its Welding & Joining Technology Program, which is led by
three American Welding Society (AWS)-Certified Welding
Instructors with a combined 75 years of experience.
Challenge
Construct and equip a state-of-the-art welding lab to complement
its existing one.
Solution
X-Tractor 52 high-vac central fume extraction system as well as
26 other pieces of Lincoln equipment, ranging from CV-305
power sources with DH-10 wire feeders, Precision TIG® 185
welders, Idealarc® 250 stick welders, and Power Wave® 455
waveform control power sources with Power Feed® 10 wire feeders.
Results
- Eastern Wyoming is one of only 50 AWS-accredited test
facilities in the country and was one of the first to attain
this designation.
- The college more than doubled its capacity by adding 19
welding booths to the new lab, bringing the total capacity for
both labs to 34 stations.
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