Lincoln Electric announced it is making its welding curriculum platform, U/LINC, more user-friendly and accessible to welding instructors and educational institutions through a new partnership with a provider of manufacturing training solutions.
The partnership gives Tooling U-SME the authority to administer U/LINC and leverages the company’s access to industry and academia, as well as its competency-based learning and development solutions.
Working directly with thousands of companies and 600 educational institutions across the country, Tooling U-SME helps prepare the current and next-generation workforce by providing industry-driven curriculum. As part of the agreement, new and current U/LINC subscribers will receive additional support services and reporting capabilities. And, Tooling U-SME can now provide the U/LINC platform as part of its range of learning and development product offerings, the company says.
“Tooling U-SME has a proven track record of providing solutions that help welding educators enhance their practice, leading to measurable results and improved performance outcomes,” says Jason Scales, Ph.D., business development manager, Lincoln Electric’s Education Division. “We’re excited about this partnership because it will allow us to make our industry-recognized welding curriculum even easier for welding school instructors and industry trainers to integrate and enhance their welding programming.”
Lincoln Electric established U/LINC to help welding educators find curriculum resources needed for teaching welding at every level. U/LINC contains more than 18,000 pages of curriculum resources connecting welding theory, practice and knowledge. Subscribers to U/LINC can search, download and print out lesson plans, class assignments, presentations, group-based activities and more with in-depth directions, tips and teaching strategies, the company says.
Plans call for U/LINC to migrate over to Tooling U-SME this fall. Existing U/LINC subscribers will still be able to access the U/LINC platform in its current form until the transition is completed in January 2020. CLICK HERE for more information on U/LINC.
