November - December 1999
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Welding in academia
Cranfield University, UK Cranfield has a postgraduate Welding Engineering Group and offers teaching, research and consultancy. The website has been recently redesigned and is not complete. Their facilities and equipment are listed.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/welding/ Ferris State University, USA
The College of Technology at Ferris State University offers courses in welding technology and welding engineering technology. http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/colleges/technolo/weldingt.htm
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/colleges/technolo/weldengt.htm
Ohio State University, USA
The Ohio State University Department of Industrial, Welding & Systems Engineering gives details of their undergraduate, graduate and research programmes, staff, events and links to other welding web sites.
Moved to: http://www-iwse.eng.ohio-state.edu/we/
The University of Bath, UK
The University of Bath Advanced Welding and Joining Unit Home Page is also the website of the American Welding Society in the UK. The AWJU is part of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath (UK). Details of research activities and courses at the University are given. A list of British and European Standards related to welding is presented. http://www.bath.ac.uk/centres/awju/home.html
University of Waterloo, Canada
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, describes its undergraduate programme's welding specialisation option and the welding and joining research carried out. http://mecheng1.uwaterloo.ca/undergrad/welding.html