American Welding Society

a visit with the worlds premier organization dedicated to welding and allied joining processes

This is AWS

AWS: Beginning at the Beginning

Welding gives outstanding performance in readying WWI war and transport ships for U.S. Emergency Fleet Corp.

Post war sees merging of Emergency Fleet Corp. and Natl Welding Council into new society

Its research arm evolves into todays Welding Research Council

A Rose by Any Other Name

Societys publication is titled the Welding Journal in 1940

review, feature articles, latebreaking news, book and product reviews, and advertising on cutting edge products

Welding Journal offers peer

Its 60+ awards include the Editorial Excellence Award from Folio magazine

Strength Through Sections

First Section was Philadelphia, chartered in May 27, 1920

Today, there are 22 Districts housing over 170 Sections including 19 overseas:
Manama, Bahrain; Regensburg, Germany; Kingston, Jamaica; Manchester, England; Panama City, Panama; Lima, Peru; Helsingor, Denmark; Taipei, Taiwan; Port of Spain, Trinidad; Caracas, Venezuela; TelAviv, Israel; and Chennai, India

The AWS Welding Show

The AWS Welding attracts thousands of professionals from all over the world , along with the Whos Who of sister associations staging their special events from this annual AWS gathering which has assumed truly global status The AWS Welding Show is the only annual Vertical Market Welding Exposition in the United States

Bulletin No. 1
From inception, AWS was organized into committees for writing standards

Its first standard, Standard Tests for Welds was Bulletin No. 1 (1921)

Today, AWS has more than 170 ANSIapproved documents at some point in their standards cycle, requiring the know-how & work of 1,500 volunteers

Consensus Building
AWS unique value to industry is that it is an unbiased forum for the exchange, consideration and discussion of ideas and proposals

The Flagship Standard

D1.1 has had a 74-yr evolution, keeping pace with the design, inspection and workmanship requirements for safe, modern structures

D1.1:2002 Now Available

Fabricators Discover D1
A comparison between 1986 users of D1.1 Structural Welding CodeSteel and 1996 users, showed a 25% increase in use by fabricators a growing trend among the QA/QC minded

Sister standard, D1.2-97 Structural Welding Code Aluminum has been revised

All AWS standards are integrating SI and U.S. Customary measurements

If Youre Good Enough Part 1

AWS certification program launched in 1976 with Certified Welding Inspector

36,000 professionals worldwide have been certified to AWS QC1 Standard for AWS

Certification of Welding Inspectors

Reciprocity exists between U.S. and select programs of other countries

Certified members receive Inspection Trends magazine

Youre Good Enough Part 2

AWS Welding Engineer Senior CWI Customized welder certification

The Soul of the Profession

- AWS national public service campaign launched 5 years ago

Welding for Communities

Wins recognition from American Society of Assn Executives in 1997

April 6-12, 2003

To Recognize Excellence
AWS Extraordinary Welding Awards
Historical Welded Structures Outstanding Development in Welded Fabrication

To Recognize Excellence
Recent Historical Welded Structures and Outstanding Development in Welded Fabrication Award Recipients include

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame USS Cavalla The Pentagon

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

USS Wisconsin

AWS Online
50,000 user sessions monthly on

http://www.aws.org

Secured electronic transactions

Free hyperlinks for Search back issues of Sustaining Members

Welding Journal

AWS JobFind

Free Section website service

Buy at the E-Store

Online Buyers Guide

Membership Growth
60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 1929

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Who are we?

engineer, designer, 6% 7% 10% 4% 4% inspector 30%

10% manager, director 13%

company officer 16%

The Intangible

Membership means Im professional

Im one of the nearly 50,000 engineers, educators, researchers, welders, inspectors, execs, and sales associates from all over the world whove joined AWS

My society is the largest organization in the world dedicated to the science and technology of welding

Dont miss the best & largest fabrication show in the world April 810, 2003, in Detroit, Michigan

Cobo Hall

800 exhibitors from over 60 countries

Technical talks from basics to R&D Make the right contacts Apply your networking skills

The mission of the American Welding Society is to provide quality products and services to our members and the industry, which will advance the science, technology and application of materialsjoining throughout the world.
Thank you