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Welding
The second episode in the series focuses on welding, highlighting the variety of careers available from the viewpoints of artistic welder Mike Patterson, an alumnus of Williamsport Area Community College (a Penn College forerunner), adjunct faculty member and entrepreneur; and Jennifer Brinkley-Cruz, a 2005 Penn College alumna and manufacturing specialist for Toyota. The episode chronicles Patterson crafting a life-sized Great Blue Heron weather vane for a Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen show and follows Brinkley-Cruz on the floor at the Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing plant in Georgetown, K.Y., where she oversees 40 robotic welding cells. In addition, the episode illustrates the basics of welding with David Cotner, instructor of welding, and Martin Denault, a welding & fabrication engineering technology major, and features interviews with industry representatives at the Fabtech International and American Welding Society Welding Show in Chicago.
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K-12 Classroom Resources
Lesson planning guides:
- Counselor Series - Welding Careers
- Science Series - Researching Welding Careers
- Technology Education Series - Evaluating a Career in Welding
- Technology Education Series - Physical Technologies in Welding
- The Science of Welding and Welding Careers
- The Science of Welding PowerPoint
Awards
2009 Silver Telly Award
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2009 Communicator Award of Excellence
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Credits
- Producer/ Director/ Editor/ Camera
- Chris Leigh
- Producer/ Writer/ Editor/ Camera/ Narration
- Tom Speicher
- Graphics
- Kevin Jones
- Music
- 615 Music Library
- Public Relations
- Wendy Wilson
- Web
- Steve Franco
- Executive Producers
- Elaine Lambert
- Tom Currá
- Images/video courtesy
- Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau
- Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
- Horticulture
- Joseph Yoder
- Lorain County Community College
- Manufacturing Technology, Inc.
- Mike Patterson
- Miller Electric Mfg. Co.
- Pennsylvania College of Technology
- Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen
- Rob Cardillo Photography
- The NewsMarket
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky Video Services
- Special Thanks
- Jennifer Brinkley-Cruz, Manufacturing Specialist - Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America
- David Cotner, Instructor, Welding - Pennsylvania College of Technology
- Martin Denault, Student, Welding & Fabrication Engineering Technology - Pennsylvania College of Technology
- Lee Kvidahl, Sector Manager, Welding Engineering - Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Gulf Coast
- Special Thanks (cont.)
- Ernest Levert, Senior Staff Manufacturing Engineer - Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
- Katie Levesque, Business Development - Edison Welding Institute
- Mike Patterson, Artistic Welder
- Nancy Porter, Welding Engineer & Project Manager - Edison Welding Institute
- Anthony Swoope, Administrator: Office of Apprenticeship, Employment & Training Administration - U.S. Department of Labor
- Gerald Uttrachi, 2007 President - American Welding Society, President - WA Technology
- Jeff Weber, Associate Executive Director - American Welding Society
- American Welding Society
- Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen
- Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc.
- Tim Baltz
- Sherrie Boyer
- Kerry Holt
- Larry Kauffman
- Nick Mohler
- Donald Praster
- Adrienne Zalkind
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