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EWI's Fundamentals of Welding Engineering course is back by popular demand! This long-running introductory class for engineers and technicians -- taught twice annually by EWI's welding specialists -- was curtailed during the coronavirus pandemic. With high demand for the course's return, the 5-day, comprehensive program will be offered twice in 2022: March 14-18 and October...

A standard electric vehicle (EV) automotive battery can be decomposed into cell level, module level, and pack level. A cell mainly includes the anodes and cathodes, a module includes multiple cells, and a pack includes multiple modules. The three most common metal-to-metal joints in a lithium-ion battery pack are foil-to-tab, tab-to-tab, and tab-to-bus. All three...

Currently, recycling industrial scrap metal is expensive, messy, and inefficient. Nevertheless, the goal of reducing the 25 million tons of metal waste produced each year remains top priority in the manufacturing industry. EWI has developed a new scrap metal recycling method that consolidates and extrudes a metal byproduct suitable for industrial re-use faster and in...