Industrial Arts Institute Can Cover Demand for Welders

The Industrial Arts Institute in Michigan has started offering a welding program after several months of planning. Moran Iron Works has helped developed the program that was designed find new welders to fill up the high demand for welders all across the state and the United States.

Students are eager to begin learning how to weld. One of the new students is Josh Uwahandrich. He said he feels good knowing that by the end of the program, he will be able to land a job that he didn’t thought he’d get.

Moran Iron Works said that it had a couple of welding positions waiting to be filled up when it opened enrollment for the Industrial Arts Institute. An instructor in the school will not just be sending welders to Moran. As older welders retire, a gap occurs among welders. It is vital that more welders get the experience to fill the areas once the current welders will retire.

The course at the institute is more than a month long. According to Georgia Abbot, executive director of the Institute, students will be at the lab most of the time learning through hands-on experience and just 20 percent learning about the theories.

Abbot stated that they are looking for students with drive and determination. Some of the students have the experience welding in the past. They have worked with their father or grandfather in their farms. They also worked their cars or trucks, or took several classes during high school. There are also students who have no experience or background in welding.

Some students were driven to learn welding that they resigned from their jobs in order to join the program. Uwahandrich said that he tried going to college before but he didn’t like it. The school got all the equipment to learn welding and he’s happy about the program.