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March 2, 2022Capital Region BOCES Provides Crash Course for Knolls Atomic Power Lab Engineers, Welders
What’s a couple of millimeters among friends? If you are an engineer or a machinist working on a project, it could be the difference between success and failure.
Because that level of specificity is not always clear in design plans, engineers and others from the Knolls Atomic Power Lab (KAPL) took a crash course in machining and welding at Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School the week of Feb. 21.
Career and Technical School teachers Kody Skeals and Don Mattoon guided the 13 engineers and machinists through an introductory course in welding and machining.
“The idea is to give them a better understanding of the processes behind what goes into making what they design,” said Skeals.
Indeed, the engineers and machinists appreciate the knowledge they learned at BOCES.
“This is giving me a better understanding of everything that goes into what we research and design,” said engineer Colin Tattersall.
Fellow engineer Jared O’Hara concurred.
“I am an electrical engineer so it’s good for me to see the processes and the parts come together in the manufacturing operation,” he said.
KAPL sends its engineers to Capital Region BOCES periodically throughout the year to learn how materials are manually manipulated, items made and metals put together and melded. This is the first time a group from the atomic lab has been at BOCES, though, since the start of the pandemic.
“It helps the engineers to understand theories and principles of the processes,” said Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School Principal Makensie Bullinger.
