According to U.S. Welding Workforce Data, the country could face a critical shortage of welders by 2029 as more workers retire.
That’s why having full classes of welding students at Erie County Community College is so important.
Students in the college’s ten-month welding program spend time learning skills in the classroom before putting those lessons into practice.
For student, Sakhari Thomas, the hands-on learning is one of the most valuable parts of the program, “It’s much more informative when I can actually go down and see what we did on the whiteboard and do it, and without that, it’s not as easy to do it correctly and do a good job with it.”…