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Mr. Yukio Nakajima, Managing Director of CBIC

It is my great honor to send my congratulation to the publication of International JICA WELDING NEWS marking 25th anniversary since the start of Welding Courses in NITC seeing off more than 250 participants so far. Besides, its unique characteristic to grant a chance to acquire a prestigious one among many JICA training courses. I am always astounded by the participants passion and endurance, which, I believe, are the very factors the participants must have for completing the six months long duration and accomplishing the high quality examination. I simply admire all the participants who graduated from this courses every year.

It is no doubt that the efforts made for this course by the people concerned including Dr. Muneharu Kutsuna of Nagoya University and the staff of Japan Welding Engineering Society has enormous. Let me express my deepest appreciation in this occasion. I heartily hope that the participants, now and past, will be the leaders of the welding fields in each country and contribute to the prosperity of their homeland.

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Voice of Course Leader

Muneharu Kutsuna Dr. Chairman of JICA Committee of JWES

Time is flying rapidly as you know. We have had more than 260 participants from more than 46 developing countries. But we have no good communications. Silence does not make any changes and advantages. I have had this feeling when I visited to Malaysia and Ski Lanka in 1997. We have to make efforts to support not only present participants but also ex-participants. We hope this Welding news from JICA to promote more communication between us for the future.

On the half of the chairman of JICA Committee of JWES, I would like to hear your voices through this media and E-mail to make more good friendship and support your jobs in the future. I have finished this editing work during staying at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France in March 2000. After returning back to Japan, I will prepare a report on our training course for the meeting of International Authorization Body of IIW at Chicago ,US. to improve our certificate of JICA participants and transfer to a Diploma of IIW Welding Engineer, Technologist or Specialist. If this transition is successful, your certificates are varid internationally as IIW scheme in 2001 or 2002. Dr. H. Nomura and Prof. T. Miyata have made great efforts on this matter.

JWES have already submitted their application form to IAB last January. We are going to have their audit in this year. I hope this transition is going well.

Our Welding Engineer Training Course of JICA at CBIC

1. Introduction

The education and training in this course are quite similar to IIW's scheme of education and training for welding personnels. The qualification tests for welding engineer level 2, Level 1 and Senior Welding Engineer for JICA

Table 1 Number of participants From1974 to 1999 participants has been carried out by the JWES according to the WES specification of WES 8103.

The welding engineer training course is now conducted by the Japan Welding Engineering Society with supports of 8 professors of Nagoya Univ., Mie Univ. Osata

Univ., 46 welding experts, the Japan Welding Society, and about 30 companies and organizations.

Table 1. Number of participants From 1974 to1999

2. Course Outline

The objective of the training program is to provide opportunities for participants to enhance their current technical and administ-

rative skills and knowledge, thus enabling participants to continue to contribute significantly to their country's development. In addition to gaining technological knowledge, participants will have many opportunities to experience various aspects of life in Japan, while they are here. Participants are expected to take advantage of them and pass the qualification test for welding engineer conducted by JWES. The mutual exchange of ideas with Japanese citizens are also important goal of the training program.

The aim of this course is to bring up well-qualified engineers who are able to manage the welding construction and maintenance, and the course provides theoretical and practical knowledge of welding technology.

Lecture/discussions, problem-solving, comparative study, industries observation, practice,

etc.are carried out in an effectively concerted manner in the process of acquiring skills. Thetraining time allocation by instruction method is as follows:

Figs. 1 and 2 show the scene of practical training at a private industry. In welding technology, experience is quite important to understand and use this technology in practice. In the group training at some private industries, actual specimen are used for the education and training.

3. Qualification test for overseas participant

Participants who successfully completed the Course will be awarded a certificate by JICA.

The education and training for overseas participant from developing countries is now getting more important to assure the quality of welded stuructures/parts and to develop the human resources. Qualification and certification scheme should be arranged under consideration of the real welding world for the near fut

Fig.1 Practical training of NDI at NKK

Fig.2 Practical training of welding robot at NKK

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Mansour Alli, Mr

AZAR AB Industry Co. 5 Km Arak - Tehran road Arak city IRAN

Phone : 0098-861-336901~9

Email : [email protected]

Home address:

Fax : 0098-861-334084

Indust. Complex No. : 4 - 49 ? 1 Arak cityIRAN

Phone .: 0098-861-334928

E-mail : [email protected]

Country Report

Iran is located in Middle East ,and bounded to the:

North : Azerbabaijan,Armenia,Turkmenistan and Caspian East :Pakistan and Afghanistan,

South : Persian gulf and the gulf of Oman,

West :Turkey and Iraq

Iran is the most populous and the second largest country in the Middle East.

Government : The Islamic Republic

Religion : About 99 % of Iranian are Muslims

Population : More than 60,000,000

Area : 1,648,000 Sq. Km

Capital : Tehran

My Company

Name : AZAR AB INDUSTRIES COMPANY

Establish : 1989

Location : 5 Km Arak -Tehran road. Arak city

Employees : 2600

Products : Differtrent types of utility boilers. Heat

recovery steam generation, Hydroturbine & Butterfly valve, Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Distillation Columns, Equipment utilized in cement plant, steel Mills & Sugar factories. etc.

Standards : Such as:ASME,ASTM,AWS,TEMA,JIS,

BS,DIN,ISO, &....

LIFE IN NITC

Really NITC for me is like a little world. Little world but with great people. Great people from the smallest country up to the biggest one in the world .the countries, which I knew only about their locations on the map before coming here. And today I have more information about their cultures ,

Their Customs, their traditions and.....

Today I have many great friends from this little world. Beside technical lectures in NITC another Lecture also is teaching and that is friendship.

NITC is the place where I had the best experience in my life .and I will never forget that. today I have to leave here but I will try to keep my relation with each one of friends that I have found here.

In this case may be I can say :NITC is another place to Make a closer relation between nations.

In reciprocation to all the best things which I have received in this course .I want to say Thanks to JICA That gave me this chance .and also all the members of JICE ,NITC and to Good hospitality of Japanese people.

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Ammar Husam Yacoup Azar, Mr

Research Engineer Royal Scientific SocietyMechanical Design & Technology Center Div. Metallurgical Eng. & Measurement

Unit: Welding Unit

OFFICE ADDRESS:

Tel : 962-6-844701

Fax : 962-6-844806

E-mail: [email protected]

Home address:

Tel : 962-6-5711749

Fax : 962-6-5715810

E-mail: [email protected]

First I would like to thank all JICA staff or this interesting training course, although it is one of the most longest and hardest courses, we gained a lot of technical and practical informations about welding, which will be for sure a perfect guide line for us in our work

Service of RSS:

1-Carrying out studies and conducting applied scientific research.

2-Conducting economic and technical feasibility and analytical studies.

3-Carrying out studies and research in the field of vocational and industrial education and producing books.

4-Conducting research on a contract basis with institutions in Jordan and aboard.

5-Carrying out joint research with scientific, production orientated and service institutions at the national, Arab and International levels.

6- Developing its laboratories, providing them up-to date equipment.

- Number of employees of RSS is 630 person.

The subjects of the training course were presented in a good sequence and timing, they are comprehensive and containing many field trips to Japanese companies, which you can see the practical welding works in the new industries, such as NKK, IHI, HITATCHI, ...etc companies.

In addition, we visited many interesting companies like HITATCHI, we saw the manufacturing of Hydraulic Excavators, Bulldozer, Wheel loaders, Hydraulic Crawler Cranes, ...etc., they used many welding process's especially full automatic welding by using Robots, we had an idea about the efficiency and speed of welding Robots using many types of welding process's such as MAG, LBW...etc.

In other hand, visiting such a big companies, provided us to get more information's about typical methods used in welding in practical way, for example: using the Gravity welding in welding many kinds and shapes of steel structures, after seeing it, we have a good idea about how we can use it in a sufficient way to reduce the numbers of welders and time need to perform it.

By the way, I can also consider we are lucky to have the chance for sight seeing of the beautiful cities in Japan, like Kobe, Tsu, Osaka, and Tokyo...etc. were these companies located.

I want to say that this training course is very important for my work in Jordan. Welding technology considered one of the important and new technologists in industry, and by finishing this course, it will provide us many solutions for the present and future welding problems that we may face it.

The subjects were good enough to provide us what we need about welding technology, but I think we need to learn about solving and dealing with realistic problems and difficulties that we face it in our works, such as the full procedure for repair welding of defects in special materials like H.S.S. ,S.S., ...etc. we faced many problems in repairing and welding of machines gears made of low alloy steel.

The good thing also, we have the chance to take an examination for the qualification of Welding Engineer by the Japan Welding Engineering Society. This examination contains three tests: level 2, level 1, and SWE, which gave us the motive for studying and preparing for tests.

The duration of this training course from April until October about six months, we can considered it a long period, we have the chance to know the Japanese culture, and learn a few sentences in Japanese language, it was so interesting.

In general, to spend this long period in Japan, NITC provide us an easy and wonderful life you can have here, I mean we have all the facilities for studying, by providing a comfortable rooms with cleaning services every morning. Moreover, there are many kinds of sports we can play and practice such as Tennis, Ping-Pong, ...etc.

I think, any participant that come to NITC, he will notice the nice and kind JICA staff member, they provide every thing we need in our life in NITC, any question you have they will answer and help you as much as possible, so I think they deserve a special thanks for them.

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Research AssistantCentral Metallurgical Researchand Development Institute Welding Research Labo.El-Tabbin P.O.Box. 87 HelwanEGYPT

E-mail: [email protected]

Country Report

1. Research activities carrying out basic and industrial research.

2. Consultancy services dealing with problems related to welding, casting, and steel making technology.

The number of employees in the organization about 600. The facilities of my organization are, non destructive and destructive testing, welding machines, casting machines, x-ray analysis, and electrons microscopes.

I work in Welding Research Department as research assistant and my research subject is dealing with the study of hardfacing techniques by welding.

Life in NITC

The duration of this course from April to October about six months. We stay in NITC which provide us an easy and comfortable life , we have all facilities such as computer rooms, cleaning and comfortable room, and all different kinds of sports. I feel that NITC is my home , services are very good, people are very polite. I enjoyed staying at NITC very much. I would like to thank very much all the stuff of NITC. Sayonara Domoarigato Gozaimasta.

My thought about NKK company

In this course we visited many companies such as NKK, IHI, MITSUBISHI, DAIHEN,HITACHI....etc companies.

In NKK company we stayed two weeks from 7 June to 18 June . During this time, the staff of NKK gave us many lectures about SMAW, MAG, MIG, TIG, SAW, and fundamentals of NDI. We practiced and training by our self many things, such as SMAW, SAW, Co2 welding, GTAW, gas cutting and gouging. Also we learned and practiced about non destructive testing such as UT , RT, PT, and MT . We observe the new technology in this field. In 18 August , we had another chance ,we visited again NKK , we had field trip on automation of welding bridge and ship building. So, I would like to thank very much all the staff of NKK and I hope every thing of this company going on perfect as usual.

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Sahar Ibrahim Mohamed Roushdy, Ms.

Mechanical Engineer . EL NASR Automotive Manufacturing co.Wadi - hof , helwan , cairo ,EGYPT

Tel :- 3690411, 3690754

Fax :- 3692612

Home address:36 sherif st. helwan ,CairoEGYPT

Tel :- 5566383

e-mail: [email protected]

It is a governmental organization in the Ministry of industry. Egypt.

Number of employees : 6700 persons.

Products :Trucks, buses, tractors, trailers and passenger cars

The production lines use different welding methods

The distortion occur during welding the structure body of bus Is one of our welding problems.

In Japan we visit TOSHIBA co. for electric equipment. which produce :-

2. Nuclear power equipment like Hydraulic control unit , Steam separator and shroud head .

3. Hydro power equipment like High head pumpturbine runner and Hydro turbine generator.

4. Large electric motors.

TOSHIBA heavy electrical machinery operation

Generates the new technologies in energy systems

And equipment that create a better future.

Life in NITC

In NITC we find the all facilities for get a new information about many subjects .in library a lot

Of books and video taps also by using internet we

Easy contact with all the source of information or

Our countries.

The JICA staff are very kind and help us to know A lot about Japan by books and nice trips.Also in NITC we playing many kinds of sportsAnd enjoying flower arrangement and tea parties. In NITC we gain a lot of technical and practicalInformation in welding .

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Amir Ahamed Rashed Shahriar, Mr

Assistant Naval Architect Chittagong Dry Dock Ltd.P.O.box -2007, Bander , East Patenga, Chittagong, BANGLADESH

Phone:88031-740928,740292

Email:[email protected]

Home sddress:

House-12,Road-02, Lane -11

COUNTRY REPORT

BANGLADESH are situated at the south-east part of Asia. It has an area of 143,000 square kilometers and has population of about 120 million. The main language of my country is Bengali and English is our second language. About 85% of the population are Muslims. Rest parts are Hindus, Boudist and Christian.

The land is very fertile and our main economical condition is based on Agriculture. We produced a lot of Rice, Jute, Vegetables, Tea and Fish. We export these to some other countries.

Recently we have discovered some gas and oil field in the deep sea as well as in the land also with the help of some European, American and Asian countries. We have a great exception about our gas resources .I hope if we utilize our newly discovered gas resource properly we can easily change our economical status.

MY ORGANIZATION:

I have worked in a ship repair and heavy steel construction industry under the ministry of Industries name Chittagong Dry Dock Ltd. The total plant area of my organization is about 45 acres with a manpower of 441.

This organization has capacity to repair any types of defect of all kinds of vessels up to 16,500 DWT. It has also capacity to manufacture of all types of steel structures including Portable steel bridges, machinery and spare parts of sugar mills, Fertilizer and chemical plants, paper mills, Evaporating vessel, Vacum tanks etc.

In my country we have some ship building ,off shore structure, Bridge structure, heavy steel structure manufacturing industries all over the country. every industry are trying to develop the quality of products. But about 75% of total welding works is done by Shielding metal arc welding, 15-20% TIG/MIG and remaining parts by other proceses.Now a days we are realizing that to improve the quality of welded structure we have change the welding process from SMAW to Automatic/semi automatic.

MY EXPRESSION ABOUT IHI

First day we have done practice of co2 welding and second day we checked our welding by radiography test and ultrasonic test to evaluate our joint performance. By evaluating we could understand our performance. Second day we also did destructive testing like Tensile strength, Bending test and Charpy Impact test. Third day morning we have done a very interesting practice by Gravity welding. I believe we learn a lot of practical and theoretical knowledge

about Gravity Welding.

In the ship building and marine engineering various ships and marine structures such as large supers tankers, LNG carriers has been built, repaired and renovated. As a Naval architect it was a great chance for me to know latest technology about ship building and off shore structure manufacturing process. I have acquired a lot of knowledge about MEGA FLOAT which was built by ACHI works.

At the last session of our visit the management made a plan to climb up at the top the 400 ton capacity Goliath crane. At the top we enjoyed the natural beauty of all around Nagoya which was very very interesting to us.

Last of all I would like to sat thanks the JICA and the related person who were made such type of interesting and useful practice for us. I would like to express by thank from the deepest part of my heart to the management of AICHI and Mr Ohga & Mr.........who take care of us during visit. We will never forget their hospitality and their kind co-operation.. Domo Arigato Gozaimasita

MY THOUGHT ABOUT NITC

At last I would like to say that the services of NITC are very good, people are polite and well organized. I enjoyed staying at NITC very much. Sayonara Domo Arigato Gozaimashita..

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Nassyman Pascal SAMSON,Mr

E-mail: [email protected]

Home Address:

Anse Royale, Mahe,

Phone: 248 55 63 28

e-mail: [email protected]

Seychelles is a small country situated 5 degrees south of the equator. And southwest of the Indian Ocean, with a population of Just as over 77,000. I'm 29 years old and I'm working as a welding instructor at the Seychelles Industrial Training Center. I have been in this profession of teaching for 9 years. This organization give training to students form 16 to 18 years old on a basis that will satisfied industrial needs in the field of Welding and fabrication, motor vehicle mechanics, electrical installation, electronic servicing, refrigeration and air conditioning, wood work, plumbing and pipe fitting, masonry-brick laying and painting-

decorating. The entire course is assessed on the competences of the student, and the duration for each subject is for one year. Those who pass or meet the criteria of the assessment can go to the world of work and those who failed can stay and repeat until they will pass.

My job is to instruct a group of twelve students with the welding technologies and practical the satisfy industrial needs of the Seychelles. They have 45 hours per week. In this 45 hours, they have three hours for engineering drawings, 6 house of welding technology and 36 hours of practical training. They have a criterion test at each stage of their work and those who pass these criteria can move to the next task, those who failed have to repeat until they pass these criteria. In other word it is a competences based course. The duration of the course is for one year.

About the Welding Course

The course level was relevant and the content was sufficient. The lectures was well delivered, and there were visits, lectures and practical training organized according to each topics which was very useful, but the schedule was very tight so sometimes it was difficult to understood some topics which I was not too familiar with Content of the course and teaching materials.

-The content was sufficient, but topics, which related to each other, should be follow in order to achieve easy understanding.

-Lectures was deliver in a good way, only sometimes there were some miss understanding, due to the English of some lecture. Overall, the lecture was relevant.

-Teaching materials like books were sufficient for the course.

-Achievement.

Truly speaking, the course was very interesting, useful and I'm very sure that it will help me a lot in my job. Also I have acquire many knowledge in a wide field: e.g.: - Different welding processes and the detailed of their fundamental and principles. As for my country, we mainly use SMAW, MAG, rarely TIG and Oxy-Acetylene cutting.

Throughout the course I have had the chance to visit different company the performed welding or produce welding equipment and materials, also steel making which will be very useful for me in my career.

My thought about NITC

NITC is our home during my stay here in Japan, equipped with a various facilities, for examples, a games room and tennis court that you can entertain yourself in any games. You are thirsty or a smoker? Don't worry vending machine are available in NITC, so you don't need to go out for buying them. For your lunch or dinner, there a dining hall that prepares the food and they will make sure that you have a balance diet everyday. The building looks old, but the atmosphere is better than many of other training center. The people at the front desk are always smiling and they are ready to help the participant in any way they can. At the lobby you can find many participants coming from different countries talking and learning about each other's culture, we look like a big family. At last, I will say that I enjoy living at NITC, surely I will miss NITC when I will go back to my country.

About the company I visited

The company which I have visited and acquired most knowledge and skills was NKK, which is a very big company, which comprised of many divisions, which deal in shipbuilding, bridge building, etc...

Research & Development Division

* Applied technology research center

* Materials & Processing research center

* Engineering research center

There aerother sub-division: -

* Ship & Marine Structure Lab.

* Marine Hydrodynamics group

* Ice & Snow engineering group

* Marine structure group

* Assessment Technology group

Production Engineering Lab: -

* Process Systemization group

* Fabrication Technology group

* Material & Corrosion group

* Non destructive Inspection group

Administration Team

Number of employers: -

1 Director

1 Chief Researcher

13 workers in the Ship & Marine lab.

22 workers in the Product. Eng. Lab

5 workers in the Admin. Team.

Total number of workers: - 42

My visit and practical training was at the Tsu Research lab. There, I have had the chance to practice different welding processes and lectures about SMAW, MAG, and TAG also gas and laser cutting and gouging. I have also acquired knowledge together with practices of different destructive and non-destructive test of welded joints. Also I have learnt about robot welding especially the teaching of the robot by CAD/CAM system. At last I will say that the knowledge that I have acquire in this course will help me to promote the welding in my county.

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: Mechanical Engineer Department of Mines and Geology Ministry of Industry Lainchaur, Kathmandu, NEPAL

Phone : 977-1-414806

Fax : 052-702-1397

Email : [email protected]

Home Address : House No. 526 Kha, Naradevi, Kathmandu, NEPAL

Introduction of Nepal

Participant's Organization

Ministry of Industry,

Department of Mines & Geology,

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KHWAJA FARID AHMAD, Mr

Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Centre Maulana Jalal Ud Din Roomi Road Lahore

PH NO-00192425864171-72 PAKISTAN

Home address :House no-50 Zeenat Block Allama Igbal Town, LahorePAKISTAN

Phone: 00192427832230

or -0019242446693

[email protected]

LIFE IN NITC

IN NAGOYA INTERNATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE life is symbol of sweet memories that I shall never forget. The training course was very much interesting and a source of new information and comprehensive knowledge in welding. The course was equipped with theoretical and practical training. the teachers jica staff and coordinator took great care of us in all respects and it is really appreciable. The center is equipped with facilities like home and loving attitude of Japanese people I would never forget. If I also made our stay worth living through providing facility of home stay to JICA participants. JICA staff did their best to accommodate us. The front office people were friendly our training officer director and deputy director give very special treatment beyond expectation.

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HOANG DUC LONG, Mr.

Assistant Manager National Research Institute for Mechanical Eng. Thang long highway, Maidich, Cau giay Dist.,Hanoi VIETNAM

Tel : 84.4.8343359

Fax : 84.4.8347883

Home address

174 T9 Khuong thuong,

Dong da Dist.,

Hanoi.VIETNAM

Tel : 84.4.8535451

Mobile phone: 84.90431340

COUNTRY REPORT

Vietnam is in the Southeast of Asia, it is a member of ASEAN. North border of VN is China, West border is Laos and Cambodia, Eastside and south side bordering sea.

Vietnam area is 329.000 square kilometers and population of about 76.700.000, wherein 20.5% of them live in cities. Vietnam is a developing and agricultural country, 80% of VN population work for agricultural production. Every years VN export Rice, Coffee, Tea, Pepper, Seafood, Art handicraft, Crude oil, etc. beside that VN import modern equipment and material for Agricultural production, Health service, Post and Telecommunication and especially Industrial production including welding field.

Recently, welding technology has been becoming an important target of production units and research units including my organization in Vietnam. But now we have some problems in equipment, material, inspection, welding personnel, capital for investing, etc. Therefore there were many state level research works on a large scale in welding field to solve that problems.

In Vietnam about 70-75% of total welding works is done by manual welding, remaining part by other process such as MIG, MAG, TIG, SAW, etc. nowadays VN produces some types of covered electrode and some types of welding transformer but almost of modern equipment's and welding materials are imported.

Semi automatic and automatic welding processes are applied widely in many sectors of national economic such as Bridge building, Shipbuilding, Automobile manufacturing, Chemical manufacturing, Foodstuff industry, Offshore platform, etc.

LIFE AT NITC

I arrived in Nagoya International Training Center on 7th of April 1999 when the Sakura flower was very beautiful bloomed. My first impression of this center was it looked quiet, peaceful and suitable for training and studying.

In comparison to other center of JICA such as TIC or OSIC, Nagoya International Training Center is not so big and modern but its environment is very nice and friendly. After short time living here you can be acquainted with JICA staffs and all participants easily. NITC has a warmly dinning hall and beautiful hall where you can read newspaper, relax or making friend. During leisure you can play sport like Ping-Pong, Billiard, Tennis, Football, etc. it make you be in good spirits.

There is one point I also want to mention here which are the International Family Association activities, it was very interesting and wealthy. You can joint many nice programs such as camping, dancing, karaoke, friendly parties, etc. it gave participants good chances to enjoy Japanese culture, Japanese life, to get relationship with many people from different countries.

Finally, I would like to say I like Japan, especially NITC. I had a very good and profound impression about Japan and Japanese people, I will never forget 6 month in Japan.

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Letter to graduate participants

Prof. Koreaki TAMAKI

Prof. Emeritus of Mie University

The welding engineering belongs to the category of "civilization"; it is very international and can be transferred from Japan to other countries by their engineers or researchers. However, "the culture or the custom" differs in each country. I expect that our graduate participants have tried in each occasion to introduce the welding engineering which they have trained in JICA Welding Course to each of their countries with cultures and customs differed from Japan.

We hope our graduate participants will kindly inform us of their present situations and their connections with welding engineering. I hope each of our graduate participants will be very successful in each of their countries.

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The highest in the world

Prof. Takashi MIYATA Prof. of Nagoya Univ. School of Engineering

Dear Friends:

As the era of 1900's draws to a close, we wish to renew contact with our friends in many countries through the welding news letter of JICA newly issued. I shall always remember the visits ppaid our university and my laboratory when you were in the JICA training course. It has been very good

fortune for me and for my young colleagues to have had you in our laboratory and to have exchanged our ideas on many technical subjects of strength and fracture, and our individual culture.

Finally, I hope that all is well with you and your family. Looking forward to seeing you in the near future.

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Commmunicatiom in English

Dr. Nobutaka YURIOKA

Nippon Steel Corp. Fellow; Welding and Joining Center

Hello ! My students,

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Mr. Tadashi HATTORI, Japan Techno-Mate Corp. Engineer

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Berbecue party in my garden

Hello ! How are you.

I am Shigeo Isobe. I am now taking the job of teaching Welding Technology on the manufacturers of metal products. Recently my main work is to teach how to reduce the weight of products, how to improve the corrosion resistance property and how to weld aluminium alloys, stainless steels and titanium. I am very happy that I have the opportunities to study together with you in JICA Welding Engineer course. Cultural exchange with the pupils of a primary school and Berbeque party in the garden of my house is one of my pleasant memories. I believe that you recall those days looking at the photographs and video. I wish you to keep yourselves in good shape, and to make use of what you learnt in the training for the development of your country. I am looking forward to seeing you again.

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Have a unforgettable memories

Dr. Mehari Abraham Aichi Steel Corp Dept. of R & D, Engineer

Dear participants

First of all, well come to JAPAN and I hope you will a pleasant and fruitful time during you stay. I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words regarding my experience as a participant so that you my have some idea. I was a participant in the METAL WORKS engineering course in 1984. I have stayed for 10 months and return home. From the first day I had puzzled by the language, culture, number of vehicles, food, crowds..........so on. The first and most was the language barrier. While going out for shopping, walking everything surrounding me was full of the Japanese characters and it was hard to know what they mean. At that time most of the people were not able to talk English as today, this makes it more harder to understand the situation and be able to communicate with others. Despite this it was always fun to go out and challenge and thing were going quite well with the kind understanding of people. Dear participant if you want to have an easy stay please be acquainted with the language, as you know language is the best tool to communication. You may face same cultural difference and that is obvious. For example, if you are asked to take out your shoes while entering a house don't be surprise, if you think eating noodles with a slurping sound is not good manner, that is not so in Japan. Generally there are always cultural barriers from place to place, so do your best and try to get the best out of it and have a unforgettable memories. Finally, I know you will have a tight schedule and hard work but try to vivid your time and energy. I wish you to have a good stay and success in your work. GOOD LUCK ! Yours, M.Abraham

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Willing to assist the participants

very commemorative since it was the very first course he " encountered " when he entered JICA in 1998. He did not know much about welding technology........ actually he did not even know the meaning of " welding " in English. But now, through his experience of managing this course, he deeply realizes the importance of welding technology for the industries and our human society. He is always willing to assist the participants of this course.

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Welding Engineer course is unique

It is a pleasure for me to serve as a training coordinator in the "Welding engineer" course . This course has been implemented for last 26 years as one of the fundamental training courses conducted in NITC. Although this is my second year in the course. I can imagine why this course has been lasting for such a long time.

Compared with many other training courses of JICA, Welding Engineer course is unique as it gives the participants chances to take the examination conducted by the Japan Welding Engineering Society. Those who passed the examination will be qualified internationally as "Welding Engineer, Welding Technologist, or Welding Specialist" in the near future. This is a great advantage for the participants and I think that there are not so many a course like this. Of course not all of the partcipants are necessarily successful, but those who could not pass the examination should not be ashamed of it. On the contrary, they should be proud that they participated in this prestigious training course, and could successfully complete the training which is executed by the cooperation of first class lecturers and trainers.

I really enjoyed working as a coordinator this year. All of the participants are cheerful and cooperative each other and with me. I could share many pleasant memories of the field trips and practical training with them. In fact the participants this year will be born in my mind as one of the most memorable groups. I most heartily wish them success in their careers.

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Enjoyable memories

about the dramas

Ms. Etsuko Shimamura and Ms.Midori Iwata Japanese Teachers at CITC of JICA

I remember being very surprised when I learned that the Welding Technology Course was to be established in NITC in 1974. During these two and a half decades I have had the pleasure of getting to know many of you in such Japanese classes, in IKEBANA classes or elsewhere in NITC. Looking at old photos taken during the courses over the years and lists of participants, brought back many memories of my time at NITC.

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Senior Welding Engineer

Shanghai Turbine Generator Co.,Ltd. 555 Jiang Chuan Road, Minhang, Shanghai 200240 CHINA

Office Tel : +86 21 6463 8221- ex 5381

Fax : +86 21 6462 0738

E-mail: [email protected]

Home address: Ln770 No.98 Room #202

Cangyuan Rd. Min hang,

Shanghai 200240, CHINA

A Simple Information

As a participant of Welding Training course in NITC in 1982. I came from Zhengzhou Engineering Research Institute under Machine Building Ministry of China. After 1985 I came back my hometown Shanghai and work as a Senior Engineer in Shanghai Turbine Generator Co. up to now. The Welding Trainining Course of JICA organized by NITC and Nagoya University is successfully contributed to the Welding Technology and People Friendship over the world. At this opportunity we are mounted for the International Professor I.Masumoto deeply. We are grateful to all the staffs in NITC and Associate Prof. Muneharu Kutsuna. Large changes occured in China, especially in Shanghai since the Leader Deng

Xiao-ping came Shanghai in 1992. Now, our company STGC has been coorperated with Siemens and Westinghouse Electric Co. I issued an article " Fatigue Reliability of the Brazed Joint for Rotor Water Introduced Tube" on ISST AD'98, an international conference in Xi-An Jiao Tong University in 1998. Welding News Letter will promote the communication of the participants , thanks for the good idea. Welcome the staffs and the participants visit China and Shanghai. Regards to all friends Xu Rendi

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YABA College of Technology

Industrial Maintenance Eng. Dept. School of Engineering P.M.B. 2011 Yaba Lagos

Dear M. Kutsuna,

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P.O. Box 87 Helwan, Cairo, EGYPT

Tel: +20 - 2- 5010- 094

Fax: +20 - 2- 5011-185

E-mail : [email protected]

Home address: 15 May City, 5/w/2/4,

Cairo, EGYPT

Tel : + 20 - 2 -5506-337

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Dr. Caballero 1142c/ lilio, Asuncion

Tel/Fax : + - 595 -21 -6737777 E-mail : [email protected]

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Hongo India PVT Lit.,

General Manager

Plot No. 12 Udyog Vihar, Gnida,

Gautambudh, Nagar, U.P. 201 306, INDIA

Tel : +91 - 11-569892 or 569893

Fax : +91 -18-569895

Home address: A4C/86, Janakpuri,

New Delhi 110 058 INDIA

Tel : +91 - 11-513225

MOB : +91 -9810037842

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King Mongkut's University of

Technology- Thonburi

Assoc. Dean of the Faculty of

Engineering,

Suksawads 48, Tungkru

Bangkok 10140

Dear Prof.Kutsuna,

Thank you very much for your card. I am doing fine. At the present I am an associate dean for the faculty of engineering here at KMUTT. I am also the leader of the Welding Technilogy research group at the department of production engineering.

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Through the Department to provide a new equipment

Mr. I.A. Karunathilake PERERA

in 1992

Technical College RATMALANA ,

Ratmalana, SRI LANKA

Tel : + - 9401- 633479

Fax : + -9401- 632778

Home address: No.16/42, Wijayapura,

Palenwatta, Pannipitiya,

I have successfully completed the group training course in Welding Technology at the Japan Welding Engineering Society and related organizations from 6th May to 26th october 1992, organized by the Japan International Cooperation Programme of the Government of Japan. I have passed the qualification test for Certification of Competance for Qualified Welding Engineer Level 2. My new certificate Number is J 2225765. Now I am senior Instructor in Technical College at Ratmalana - Department of Technical Education & Training under the Ministry of Vocational training and Rural Development and also I work the acting Princcipal of our College. I do a significant roll in teaching Welding Technology in my College students. Now I am teaching OXY-Acetylene gas welding, SMAW, TIG, MIG, MAG and spot welding process. In addition I serve as a Consultant in Private Sector. One Japanese Consultant now works at your Department I made a request him through the Department to provide new equipment of Welding Machine, specially the machine which I was familier to practice at Diahen Co. Japan. Then he promised us to provide new machine in the year of 2001. The knowledge you gave me in 1992 at your course of Welding Technology has been useful to me for my day to day teaching. I appreciaate it very much and I am willing to learn about more modern methods of

Welding Technology. I will be grateful to you if you can give me a opportunity learn more about in Welding Technology in Japan.

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Watashi wa Malta no Joseph desu.

Home address: Tagaderfla Mons.G.Depiro str., B'Kara BKR 04

Dear Dr. Kutsuna, Watashi wa Malta no Joseph desu. Ogenki desu Ka? I am going well in my job. From this year I am serving in two schools. In one of them I am still teaching welding Tech and in the other it is differnt because I am a guidance teacher also. Kutsuna san I was very pleased to know from you that from this year you have started a News letter from NITC regarding welding . prof.Kutsuna, if it is not of trouble to you, please tell me how can I get this news letter so that If I can be of some kind of help I will know how ? your sincerely , Joseph

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Overall Project Consultant ARMM Pendatun Clan Bllk 13 Lot 31 Gardenia Valley Subdivision Molino, Bacoor, Cavite,

PHILIPPINES 4102

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Now I have own my company

Samsudin Bin Bani,Dr

I am Bani san formerly of MITEC SIRIM Malaysia. Now, I have left SIRIM and have own my conpany dealing with steel fabrication. I hope we will keep in touch using e-mail. Please can you send me a copy of the News letter to me this address. I will write you again next time. Thank, matta. Bani

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