ED BOHNART (SCWI, CWE, and CRAW-T) of Panama City Beach, FL, is president of Welding and Education Consulting. He launched his consulting practice, with offices in Florida and Wisconsin, after a successful career directing Miller Electric manufacturing Company's training operations.  Prior to joining Miller Electric, he was welding instructor at Father Flanagan's Boys Home, Boys Town, NB.  He is an AWS Distinguished Member and Past President .  Bohnart remains active with the SkillsUSA organization and chairs the AWS Skills Competition Committee, which conducts the U.S. Open Weld Trials to select the U.S. Open Weld Trials to select the U.S. competitor for the World Skills Competition.  For six years, Bohnart chaired the AWS C5 Committee on Arc Welding and Cutting Processes, and remains active on the committee as an adviser.

RICHARD CAMPBELL  of Purity Systems, Inc., Louisville, CO, is an expert on welding stainless steels and nickel alloys.  He serves on the AWS Gas Tungsten Arc Welding and Sanitary Applications committees and ASME's BioProcessing Equipment Standards Materials Joining Subcommittee.  He Holds a B.S. degree from LeTourneau University and a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

KEN CORYELL (SCWI, and ASNT Level III certificate holder in radiography and liquid penetrant testing) a welding quality consultant based near Cleveland in Burton, OH, has been an AWS faculty member for over 17 years.  His experience includes over 30 years of welding quality assurance, quality control, nondestructive examination, and welding engineering for the electric utility, petrochemical, aerospace, shipbuilding, and structural industries.  He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Welding Engineering from The Ohio State University and is a Registered Professional Engineer.  His professional affiliations include AWS, ASNT, ASME, ASM, and the National Society of Professional Engineers.

DAVID DIAZ(SCWI, CWI, CWE, API  570, Lead Auditor ANSI NQA - 1, AISC auditor, AWS Assessor (ATF), ASNT/ACCP III 30348, SNT-TC-1A, SMAW. GTAW. and GMAW) has spent 34 years in welding and nondestructive testing, As a Quality Assurance Engineer NDE Level III and Welding Inspector, his specializations span the nuclear, aerospace, geothermal, cogeneration, and other related power generation industries, as well as building construction. He received his degree from the Chicago Institute of Technology and further his career and education in the U.S. Air Force as a metals-processing specialist, completing a degree in materials engineering.  As a quality Auditor, he has traveled extensively providing technical training and instruction throughout the continental U.S. and in Saudi Arabia,  The United Arab Emirates, Japan, Mexico, and Canada.  He is an adjunct AWS instructor for the CWI seminar and instructs on welding and nondesctructive inspection techniques, and the procedures as an independent consultant for ETMS.

SCOTT HELZER,  (CWI/CWE) Holds a Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University, with primary emphasis in nondestructive examination, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, and welding welding power sources/procedures.  He has more than two decades of diversified welding experience and has been AWS member for 24 years.  He has received the Plummer Award for outstanding contributions to welding and welding education, and an Outstanding Certificate of Achievement as a major contributing author for the rewrite of the week-long CWI preparatory course materials.
Dr. Helzer has served as an International Institute of Welding delegate and has participated in many international forums on behalf of AWS to promote welding and inspection.  His outside research interests are T-K & Y connections in 41300 tubular structures for aircraft and motor sports, and continuing education.

RICHARD DEPUE- a SCWI, CWE, RI, Level III MT, PT, VT and Certified Aerospace SCA, resides in Hollywood Florida and is owner of Certified Welding and Testing, an aerospace welding testing and auditing company. He has over 25 years of experience in the welding industry as a welder at West Valley Nuclear Services and welding instructor at the State University of New York. His experience spans the nuclear, aerospace, railroad and construction industries with many years of traveling throughout the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Rich has served on many national welding committees and received four quality achievement awards for work in the nuclear industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Technical Education, a Master of Science in Education Administration and is a Licensed Public School Teacher.

EUGENE G. HORNBERGER  of Hampton, VA, is a welding consultant for Richmond, VA-based arcet Equipment Company.  Previously, he was in charge of welder training for Newport News Shipbuilding.  Within AWS, Education Committee.  He has served on the board of directors and has chaired the AWS Education Committee.  He has written and edited several books, including Welding Processes ad Practices, coauthored with AWS FEllow (Class of 1993) August Manz.  He was the editor for the new AWS Publication, Design and Planning manual for Cost Effective Welding, and is working on several other publication projects for the Society.  Hornberger teaches wedling and troubleshoots for Arcet's customers, and as a senior instructor he leads AWS seminars on preparing the CWI examintaion.

KEN JOBES (SCWI) of Birmingham, AL was voted the Certified Welding Inspector of the Year in 1997.  This LeTourneau University alumnus has developed and implemented inspection, maintenance, and repair programs for fossil, hydroelectrc, and nuclear power plants ove the past 30 years.  In addition to his instructor duties for AWS Certified Welding Inspector  preparation seminars, he has conducted training for Alabama Power, Alliance Steel, Babcock and Wilcox, Calhoun Community College, Commonwealth Edison, Duke Power, Gorbel, Inc., Mercedes Benz, and Taylor Machine Works, He is a past menber of the AWS Education Committee.

WILLIAM SEYFARTH (CWI) has been a CWI for 23 years and has long been involved in welding education, including hands-on welding instruction at the college level.  He serves on the welding program advisory board of four Florida schools.  Based in Cedar Key, Florida, Seyfarth's company, WeldTest Services, focuses on Standards Consulting, inspection, technical writing, and welder/procedure qualification testing.  He has taught CWI Seminar for 12 years.

RON THEISS (SCWI) is develpoer and coordinator of the NDE program at North Harris College (Houston, TX) and a teaching professor for the past 26 years.  He holds a BS degree in Industrial Education.  He has served as AWS District 18 Director and as Chairman of the Houston Section.  With an extensive practical background in welding, inspection, nondestructive examination, and consulting, Ron has served as an instructor in CWI and nine-year recertification seminars for 11 years.