Welding Journal

The best thing that happened to my career was that I didn’t find a job right after college. This started me on the journey to join one of the best, lesser-known communities in manufacturing.

When I graduated with a bachelor of science in material science and engineering from Michigan Tech in 2010, manufacturing was slowly recovering from the Great Recession and, like the rest of my cohort, I had little hope of finding a job. Desperate to use my degree, I chose to go to graduate school and was lucky enough to ..