Welding and Metal Fabrication by Larry Jeffus

Welding and Metal Fabrication by Larry Jeffus

WELDING AND METAL FABRICATION employs a unique hands-on, project-based learning strategy to teach welding skills effectively and keep you motivated. This groundbreaking new book connects each welding technique to a useful and creative take-home project, making exercises both practical and personal'and avoiding the tedium of traditional, repetitive welding practices. To further enhance the learning process, every welding project includes a set of prints with specifications, like those used in production fabrication shops. This full-featured approach to skill-building reflects the reality of professional welding, where following prints and instructions precisely and laying out, cutting out, and assembling weldment accurately are just as essential as high-quality welding. The included projects are small to conserve materials during the learning process, but detailed instructions and abundant photos and illustrations guide you through a wide range of fabrication skills. Key steps and techniques within the small projects are also linked to larger projects presented at the end of each chapter, enabling you to apply what you have learned by fabricating and welding something more substantial. This thorough, reader-friendly book also prepares you for real-world success by covering shop math and measurement, time and material tracking, and invoicing.

Larry Jeffus is a welder with more than 55 years of expertise and his own fully equipped welding shop. He has completed numerous welding certification tests in a range of techniques, locations, and material types and thicknesses throughout his career. Jeffus has supplied welding and professional consulting services to major organizations, small businesses, government agencies, schools, colleges, and people locally, nationally, and globally. He is an American Welding Society Life Member. He is also the author of multiple Cengage welding publications and has over 40 years of experience as a dedicated classroom teacher.

Jeffus taught at Eastfield College, which is part of the Dallas County Community College District, before retiring. He is still engaged in the welding community today, particularly in the realm of teaching. He sits on multiple technical advisory boards for welding programs and has visited high school, college, and technical campuses in more than 40 states and four countries, offering one-on-one assistance and counseling to welding instructors and students. The Texas Technical Society named Jeffus Outstanding Post-Secondary Technical Educator in the State of Texas, and he served on the Texas Workforce Investment Council in the Texas Governor's office for 12 years.

He's also been a member of the Apprenticeship Project Leadership Team, where he helped build apprenticeship training programs throughout Texas, and he's traveled to Washington to push for vocational and technical education.

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ISBN 13	9781418013745
ISBN 10	1418013749
Title	Welding and Metal Fabrication
Author	Larry Jeffus
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2011-01-27
Number of pages	800
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.