American Welding Society
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Oct 29, 2026
speaker_0NARRATOR
arc junkies presents weld wednesday with aws brought to you by the american welding society and now your host jason becker
Jason BeckerHOST
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special episode of Weld Wednesdays with AWS, brought to you by the American Welding Society.
Jason BeckerHOST
We're here in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada for Fabtech 2026.
Jason BeckerHOST
Joining me today is Rex Alexandre with the Handheld Laser Welding Institute.
18 MINS LATER
Rex AlexandreGUEST
Luckily, a lot of people in the industry right now are already focused on laser safety.
Rex AlexandreGUEST
So I think there's a number of names out there that are focused on it.
Rex AlexandreGUEST
The AWS came out with fact sheet number 46 two years ago that talks about, hey, look, here's how to identify proper eyewear.
Rex AlexandreGUEST
Here's the type of face shield or welding helmet you should be wearing.
Michaela SpositoGUEST
What's next is I'm going to finish school.
Michaela SpositoGUEST
I received a $60,000 scholarship from the American Welding Society and Miller Electric for being the U.S. representative.
Michaela SpositoGUEST
So I'm definitely going to use that to its potential.
Michaela SpositoGUEST
And I'm going to finish my associates in the spring with my welding.
10 MINS LATER
Marie OsborneCORRESPONDENT
Back here live at Washtenaw
Jamie EdmondsHOST
Community College, and we've been talking a lot about the welding program within the college.
Jamie EdmondsHOST
Now we're going to expand it a little bit further when we talk to Dr. Joshua Burgess, the American Welding Society president who joins me now.
Jamie EdmondsHOST
Hello,
Paul W. SmithHOST
Back here live at Washtenaw Community College and we've been talking a lot about the welding program within the college.
Paul W. SmithHOST
Now we're going to expand it a little bit further when we talk to Dr. Joshua Burgess, the American Welding Society president who joins me now.
Joshua BurgessGUEST
Hello doctor.
Joshua BurgessGUEST
Hello, happy to be here.
Paul W. SmithHOST
It does,
Joshua BurgessGUEST
yeah.
Paul W. SmithHOST
Okay, so how do you fix that as part of the American Welding Society?
Joshua BurgessGUEST
Well, one of the things that we do is we have our AWS foundation and our foundation is our philanthropic arm of the society.
Mikala SpositoGUEST
What's next is I'm going to finish school.
Mikala SpositoGUEST
I received a $60,000 scholarship from the American Welding Society and Miller Electric for being the U.S. representative.
Mikala SpositoGUEST
So I'm definitely going to use that to its potential.
Mikala SpositoGUEST
And I'm going to finish my associates in the spring with my welding.
Heather CarrollGUEST
So I'll give you a couple of stats that really blew me away as I got into this area and tried to start getting my mind around, okay, how big is this problem? So in the United States, I can speak to those stats specifically.
Heather CarrollGUEST
In the United States today, according to the American Welding Society, the average age of a welder is 55 years old.
Heather CarrollGUEST
The average retirement age is 63.
Heather CarrollGUEST
The number of welders in the U.S. that are 55 and older is 21% of our workforce.
speaker_3GUEST
... you know, man, they're in high demand.
speaker_3GUEST
They're, man, they're, they're, the AWS is...
speaker_3GUEST
I've got how many, they're a shortage of 400,000 welders over the next 10 years I think it is.
speaker_3GUEST
I mean, they're, they're in bad shape.
speaker_5GUEST
They're there.
speaker_5GUEST
The AWS is, I've got how many, they're a shortage of 400,000 welders over the next 10 years.
speaker_5GUEST
I think it is.
speaker_5GUEST
I mean, they're in bad shape.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
I've been actually, I guess not lately, but I was, and I will do another CWB test.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
Uh, I was researching it and some awesome dude named Larry Bauer, who he does CWB and AWS sent me this nice long thing.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
So I was doing it right.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
Um, I love how you guys do it.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
Yeah, that's beautiful.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
I love your guys' tests.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
I like them a lot more than AWS, which I just recently got on the D11 committee.
Nathanial AldrichGUEST
Not that I can make any waves or changes.
Darrell GallowayGUEST
And then there's also, uh, depending on what trade they're going into, a lot of times there's--we can point them to scholarships that they can apply for that a lot of people don't know about.
Darrell GallowayGUEST
Um, even, say, for one, welding, um, as a student, uh, American Welding Society, they offer free subscriptions to anybody who's a student if they just, they go and check, uh, student, it's a free subscription.
Penny CookHOST
Oh, wow.
Penny CookHOST
Yeah.
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