Welding the Rockies Symposium Schedule
Petroleum Hall, Green Center CSM
924 16th St, Golden, Colorado

Thursday March 11 Friday March 12

Thursday March 11
7:30 - 8:00     Arrival and Name Tag Pickup
8:00 - 8:30     Welcoming Remarks, CSM Prof John Steele
8:30 - 9:30     AWS Update on Certification Programs, Jeff Hufsey (American Welding Society)
9:30 - 10:30   New NDT technologies, Jeff Baxter (Olympus NDT
10:30 - 11:30 Characterizing Residual Welding Stress to Determine Preheat in accordance with AWS D1.1 Bill Komlos (Arc Tech LLC)
11:30 - 12:30 Welding Gas Mixtures - Updating Your Knowledge, Bryan George (Matheson Tri-Gas)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch - On your own
13:30 - 14:30 Welding Standards Development, Jeff Hufsey (American Welding Society)
14:30 - 15:30 Robotic Welding - Making Sense of it, Mark Acton (Motoman)
15:30 - 16:30 Hexavalent chrome - What welders need to know, Ryan Hellman (Hellman Associates)
16:30 - 17:30 Overview of CSM’s Center for Welding Joining and Coating Research, Prof Steve Liu (CSM), followed by a tour of the CSM research center
17:30            Done for the day

Thursday March 11
7:30 - 8:00     Arrival and Name Tag Pickup
8:00 - 8:30     Daily announcements
8:30 - 9:30     Welding Metallurgy for the rest of us, Jesse Grantham (Welding & Joining Management Group)
9:30 - 10:30   Spooling Pipe for Offshore Pipelines, Germanique Pickens (Exxon Mobile)
10:30 - 11:30 State-of-the-Art Welding Workcells, Chris Norris (Wolf Robotics)
11:30 - 12:30 Cognitive Learning of Welding Students & New Technology, Rex Hardman (Miller Electric)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch - On your own
13:30 - 14:30 CWIs Training, Responsibilities, & Opportunities, Lynn Sturgill, (Sturgill Welding and Code Consulting)
14:30 - 15:30 Learning to Weld Virtually, Dave Fullen (Lincoln Electric)
15:30 - 16:30 21st Century Pipewelding, and welder training, Adam Chavez (United Association Local 208, Pipefitters)
16:30 - 17:30 Gas Torch Safety - What You Need to Know, Dave Murphy (DM Torch Repair)
17:30            Closing - CSM Prof John Steele

For more information see the Colorado Section 039 posts