This is AWS

American Welding Society

a visit with the world’s premier

organization dedicated to welding
and allied joining processes
 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 Nat’l Welding Council into new society
Its research arm evolves into today’s Welding
Research Council
A Rose by Any Other Name
Society’s publication is titled the
Welding Journal in 1940
 Welding Journal offers peer
review, feature articles, late-
breaking news, book and product
reviews, and advertising on cutting
edge products
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 Who’s 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 ANSI-
approved 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 Code—Steel 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 You’re 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
 You’re Good Enough Part 2

 AWS Welding Engineer

 Senior CWI
 Customized welder certification
 The Soul of the Profession

 Welding for Communities -

AWS’ national public service
campaign launched 5 years
ago
Wins recognition from
American Society of Ass’n
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
 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock &
 USS Cavalla
Roll
 The Pentagon
Hall of
 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Fame  USS Wisconsin
 AWS Online

50,000 user sessions  Secured electronic

transactions
monthly on http://www.aws.org
Search back issues of Free hyperlinks for
Welding Journal Sustaining Members
 AWS JobFind  Free Section website

service
Buy at the E-Store
 Online Buyer’s Guide
 Membership Growth

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1929 1944 1969 1980 1992 1997 2000
 Who are we?
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de s igne r,
4% ins pe c tor
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 The Intangible
 Membership means “I’m professional”
I’m one of the nearly 50,000 engineers,
educators, researchers, welders, inspectors,
execs, and sales associates from all over the
world who’ve joined AWS
 My society is the largest organization in the
world dedicated to the science and technology
of welding
 Don’t miss the best & largest fabrication
show in the world April 8-10, 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 materials-joining
throughout the world.

“Thank you”