A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The precision work of welders and fabricators holds up bridges and delivers miners safely underground. Students will gain skills in welding, fabrication, detailing and millwrighting that they can use across the country, from coast to coast, in virtually any industry.

Experiential learning will allow students to: • Prepare to meet increasingly complex industry standards through hands-on learning in Loyalist College newly equipped The Bay of Quinte Skills Centre: • Follow projects from the engineering drawings stage, through cutting and forming processes, to the completion of the job and quality inspection.

• Create with new and evolving technologies such as CNC press brakes, CNC plasma cutting and 3D designing. • Practise welding techniques such as gas metal arc welding, shielded metal arc welding and gas tungsten arc welding. • Participate in the Ontario Skills Competition and field trips to the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show. • Expand their theoretical and practical skill set, along with in-depth trade practices and job planning skills, in the two-year diploma program.