Welding Curriculum Planning Made Easy

Lincoln Electric® (Cleveland, OH) presents Course Builder, a timesaving curriculum-planning tool for welding educators. This program guides instructors to create a curriculum calendar that helps organize instructional time, select specific and appropriate U/LINC® content, and take the headache out of curriculum planning. It also helps track the lesson plan’s compliance with state standards and requirements. The set-up process is simple: instructors answer a brief series of questions about the course of study, teaching level and length of plan, while noting any blackout dates for holidays or school events. After just a few keystrokes, Course Builder creates a comprehensive curriculum plan that spans a chosen time frame, from just the coming week to a full year of instruction. Once it populates the calendar, it tells instructors where their training program stands in terms of compliance. The tool creates a detailed audit specifying which state standards the curriculum plan meets and where it falls short. Educators can modify the plan as needed.

“This program simplifies and speeds up the typically time-consuming and difficult process of curriculum planning,” says Jason Scales, the business manager of educational products and services at Lincoln Electric. “Using it, welding educators can build a solid framework for their courses and spend more time teaching instead of planning.” This program works seamlessly with the U/LINC learning management system that provides instructors with ready-made curriculum to teach anything, from the most basic welding and safety practices to some of the most advanced aspects of the welding trade: production, engineering and manufacturing, automation and CNC plasma cutting. U/LINC curriculum is continuously updated to meet the needs of today’s students, the requirements of academic administrators and the demands of the welding industry. It offers more than 1,000 educational assets – including lesson plans, lab activities, student assessments and presentations that are all AWS SENSE-compliant and aligned with most state competencies – in a subscription-based system.

Lincoln Electric also provides the Square Wave TIG 200 welding machine that offers a multi-process TIG and stick welding experience for craftsmen, small shop fabricators, makers, motorsports enthusiasts and hobbyists. Users can perform AC TIG welding on aluminum and DC TIG welding on steel, stainless and chrome-moly when precision and bead appearance are important. Users can also switch to stick welding when working with thicker materials or welding outdoors. The Square Wave TIG 200 combines an easy-to-use interface for fast set up with built-in advanced features. A pulsed TIG feature provides a drumbeat-like rhythm for filler metal deposition, making you a better welder, faster. AC frequency control allows users to adjust the machine for a wider or more narrow arc profile when TIG welding on aluminum. Adjustable AC balance provides more cleaning action on aged aluminum and helps maximize penetration on thicker aluminum materials.

The Lincoln Electric Company, 22801 Saint Clair Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44117-1199, 888-355-3213, www.lincolnelectric.com.