This is AWS

American Welding Society

a visit with the worlds 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 Natl Welding Council into new society

Its research arm evolves into todays Welding

Research Council

A Rose by Any Other Name

Societys publication is titled
the Welding Journal in 1940

Welding Journal offers peer

review, feature articles, latebreaking 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 Whos 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 ANSIapproved 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 CodeSteel 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 Youre 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

Youre 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 Assn
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

Rock &
Roll
Hall of
Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

USS Cavalla
The Pentagon

Trans-Alaska Pipeline System

USS Wisconsin

AWS Online
50,000 user sessions
monthly on

http://www.aws.org

Secured electronic
transactions

Free hyperlinks for

Search back issues of Sustaining Members

Welding Journal

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service

Online Buyers Guide

Membership Growth
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
1929

1944

1969

1980

1992

1997

2000

Who are we?

engineer,
designer,
6%

4%

4%

inspector
30%

7%
10%

10% manager, director

13%

company officer
16%

The Intangible

Membership means Im professional

Im one of the nearly 50,000 engineers,

educators, researchers, welders, inspectors,
execs, and sales associates from all over
the world whove joined AWS

My society is the largest organization in

the world dedicated to the science and
technology of welding

Dont miss the best & largest

fabrication show in the world April 810, 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 materialsjoining throughout the world.
Thank you