Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies

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    In the Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies Program, students learn how to measure, cut, and bend metal to blueprint specifications. They learn how to operate the essential machines such as brakes, shears, presses, rolls, forming machines, welders and punches. They also learn how to layout and fabricate sheet metal fittings for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industries.
     
    Students learn that welding is an important part of fastening metal components together. They receive extensive training in the various methods of welding, e.g. oxyacetylene cutting, electric arc, M.I.G. – T.I.G. and plasma arc cutting. In related classes, students are taught he use of radiographs, as well as rod identification, blueprint readings, and all references to machinery concepts and processes.
Diman Metal Fabrication and Joining Technology Shop

Announcements

  • Diman Advisory Board Seeks Your Help

    We want you to join the Diman family. While we're proud of our vocational programs and their ability to turn young men and women into skilled members of the community, we can't maintain that level of quality without the help of industry professionals. Please consider joining our Vocational Advisory Board, where you will help steer our vocational programs and students toward future success. Learn more and apply here.
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Skills & Careers

  • Students graduating from Diman have a variety of job options open to them. Below is a partial list of jobs Diman grads from this program are qualified for, depending on their level of education.

    Diman Diploma 2 Year College 4 Year College
    • Ship Building
    • Entry Level Sheet Metal Worker
    • Fabricator
    • Welder
    • Production Worker
    • Sheet Metal Apprentice
    • Travel Opportunities
    • Foreman
    • Project Cost Estimator
    • Project Manager
    • System Designer
    • Weld Inspector  (CWI)
    • Mechanical Engineer
    • Welding Engineer
    • Vocational Technical Instructor
    • College Instructor
    • Senior System Designer

    Skills & Skill Areas

    • Competency Orientation
    • Safety
    • Metal Identification
    • Hand Tools
    • Hand Operated Equipment
    • Power Equipment
    • Measurements (Sheet Metal)
    • Straight Line Layout
    • Parallel Line Layout
    • Radial Line Layout
    • Triangulation
    • Fastening (Sheet Metal)
    • Oxygen-Fuel Welding & Cutting
    • ARC Welding
    • MIG Welding
    • TIG Welding
    • Gouging
    • CNC Plasma Arc Cutting
    • Measurement 1/8" Stock & Heavier
    • Fastening 1/8" Stock & Heavier
    • Assembly Methods
    • Blueprint Reading

In the News

  • Success at Notch Mechanical Pipe Welding Competition

    Our Metal Fabrication and Joining Technologies program is proud of our students' performances at the Notch Mechanical Pipe Welding Competition on 5/17/23. Bradyn Domigues won first place out of 75 competitors, and six of the nine students passed both the visual test and the bend test. (5/18/23)

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  • Welding class

    Diman receives CTI grant

    Greater Fall River Vocational School District will be using these grant funds to provide training and placement services to prepare unemployed and underemployed participants for Carpenter, Welder positions. Their grant partners include: MassHire Bristol Workforce Board and Career Centers and the following employer partners: Davico Manufacturing, Dartmouth Building Supply, North Atlantic Corporation. (2/11/21)

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  • Students look at the sluice gate

    ‘Top notch’ work from Diman students on key piece of city infrastructure

    A group of Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School students saw the fruits of their labors materialized in a dramatic way on Friday when a project they had worked on for a year -- replacing vital sluice gates that help control the flow of water from the Quequechan River -- became an integral part of the city’s infrastructure for decades to come. (7/10/20)

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  • Students pose with the bench

    Diman makes "Buddy Bench" for Silvia Elementary

    Schools all across the country have been trying different strategies to make students feel safe and a part of their community. Thanks to the students of the Metal Fabrication and Joining Technology program at Diman, Silvia Elementary School now has the ability to try a successful project on their own playground. (5/20/19)

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  • Carreiro shows the award as staff and students look on

    Retired Diman teacher earns award, passes on legacy

    Diman is pleased to announce that recently retired teacher Edward Carreiro has won the American Welding Society’s “Howard E. Adkins Memorial Instructor Award.” Carreiro, who retired from the Metal Fabrication and Joining Technologies program in 2016, was surprised when the award was presented to him on 1/5/17, but that didn’t stop him from offering sage advice to students in shop. (1/6/17)

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  • Raul Ricon gives Diman Regional students a tour of the Whirlpool plant in Fall River. Herald News p

    Whirlpool gives Diman students a look at how big their future can be

    The first thing that strikes you about the factory floor at Whirlpool is that it’s clean and relatively quiet, a long way from the greasy, roaring factory floors of the past. The audience was about 20 students from Diman Regional Technical Vocational High School, some of whom may well end up welding in or supervising a plant just like the Whirlpool facility (10/11/16)

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