Welcome to the Student Center, your link to building a career in metal forming and fabricating. Learn about available scholarships, find salary information for different careers in metal forming, and even find manufacturing camps and schools to prepare for your career.
How Steel Is Made
Click here to watch a video that outlines the basic processes used in making steel. It follows the process from the raw material stage through various finishing methods highlighting the sophisticated technology used in today's steelmaking.
See How Products are Formed Out of Metal
Watch videos on careers in manufacturing including Manufacturing Now, Challenge of Manufacturing, and Engineering Making it Work. Also see videos on assembly, bending, clinching, hydroforming, punching, sheering, stamping, and welding.
Manufacturing Summer Camps
Create 3-D design on a computer (CAD), transfer the design to a computer numeric control (CNC) machine, take the finished product home after being built, and tour local companies to see if you can do this for a good living! Sound exciting?
This is the basic premise of 10 manufacturing camps funded by the FMA Foundation this summer and the Foundation's goal of 50 new camps by summer 2008. Find out if there is a camp near you.
Careers
Tremendous opportunities are available within the field of metal forming and fabricating. The following links will take you to specific job categories at the U.S. Department of Labor will detail the nature of the work, working conditions, training required, other qualifications, current employment statistics, job outlook projections, and earnings potential for each job category.
Trade Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Utilize our search to find a school with a program that fits your needs and leads to a career in fabricating.
FMA Foundation Scholarships
Scholarship funds are available to students seeking careers in manufacturing. Meet the FMA Foundation's most recent award winners, learn about the eligibility criteria, and download an application today. Click here for more information.
FMA Foundation Scholarship Winners
The FMA Foundation proudly announces its scholarship winners for the 2005-2006 academic year. These awards, totaling $34,000 will cover the cost of books, fees, and tuition for students enrolled in programs leading to careers in manufacturing. See the FMAF Scholarship winners in the slide show on the right.
Award-Winning Robot Performs at Metal Matters Conference
Winnovation, the FMA Foundation-sponsored high-school robotics team from Winnebago, Illinois, demonstrated its award-winning robot at FMA's Metal Matters Conference in Las Vegas on March 13. This past year, team members earned regional championship honors at its inaugural competition in St. Louis, where the challenge was to engineer a robot in six weeks using a predetermined parts kit and preset task list for the robot to perform upon completion. The team qualified to compete nationally at the FIRST Robotics Competition in Atlanta where it placed 67 in a division with 85 robots. In all, there were 340 robots competing from around the world.
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