MIG and TIG welding week — Women Fabrication Training

W3C1, and 2 Women Fabrication Training

 This week female students are introduced about MIG welding, TIG welding, including learning how to cutting their machining parts.

Steve went through safety instructions and introducing the MIG welding machines.

Safety gloves and in-class demo of welding(right).

Cutting requires skills and nice posture cutting at right spot.

TIG welding.

DEMO and students are practicing.

Copper connection, Driling introduction — Women Fabrication Training

W2C3 Women Fabrication Training

Soldering is the main topic today especially focusing on how to connect copper pipes together.

The hands on skill includes how to cut the pipes, clean up the pipes and different methods on how to connect the pipes.  The technician, Dave Hartwig, introduced the procedures to the students that silver soldering takes place at the lower temperature range than brazing.

Students start working on copper pipe cutting, and they know it well from the last class. 

Also, they know how to cleaning up the pipes, deburring.

Tube, Tube connecting — Women Fabrication Training

W2C2 Women Fabrication Training

The technician Dave Hartwig is showing how to use the flaring tool. Students are concentrate on practicing the skills and using the tools. Later, they get chance to work on adapters fittings and rings.

Kita gets excited and trying the bending tool.

 

Electrical Soldering, wires, heat shrink — Women Fabrication Training

W2C1 Women Fabrication Training

 

Hand Tools - W1C2 Women Fabrication Training

    The summer laboratory hands on skill training course is supported by DECADE program on campus.  It is a pleasure to not only share my own experiences but also coordinate the training with different professionals on campus as the main instructor.  The goal of the training is to create the environment which is the best for the women graduate students to embrace the fabrication skills applying in their research.

Survey. Training introduction — Women Fabrication Training

W1C1 Women Fabrication Training

The first day of every class is always important, although it seems not having too much direct teaching/learning action is going on.  It initializes the whole series of work and puts all the people together.  The main tasks on this day is taking the fabrication experience survey which offers an index for the mentor team (instructor, machinist and technician), and going over through the six-week syllabus.