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A Letter to Prospective Students

This month, our focus is on Career Services at our largest campus – Houston, Texas. Our Career and Student Services Coordinator, Hillary Collins has been in this role for almost three years. She has done an incredible job assisting our students, from hosting employer speakers on campus like 24/7 Workforce, to helping set up job […]

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A Letter to Parents

This month, our focus is on Career Services at our largest campus – Houston, Texas. Our Career and Student Services Coordinator, Hillary Collins has been in this role for almost three years. She has done an incredible job assisting our students, from hosting employer speakers on campus like 24/7 Workforce, to helping set up job […]

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In the Hot Seat with Brett Vaughn

“My first job was a fabricator with a wide variety of welding. We never knew what work we’d be welding day to day. I did a lot of MIG welding at this shop. Then I became a structural welder at a nuclear plant and I was MIG welding aluminum pipe.”
Stick: “My dad taught me to Stick weld when I was a young teen. That’s when I knew I wanted to be a welder – I just loved it. I Stick welded at my first job in the fabrication shop working on dump trucks and trailers. Then I Stick welded for 3 years at a union structural and pipe welding plant.”
TIG: “We did a lot of TIG welding at the fabrication shop working on aluminum boats, furnaces, heat exchangers and more.”
Flux cored: “I welded stainless steel flux core on chemical vats used for pig dipping for a pig plant.”

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