Lincoln Electric Joins Forces
with Tooling U-SME to Strengthen
U/LINC® Welding Curriculum Platform
Lincoln Electric® is making its flagship welding curriculum platform, U/LINC,
even more user-friendly and accessible to welding instructors and educational
institutions through a new partnership with a leading provider of
manufacturing training solutions.
The new partnership gives Tooling U-SME the
authority to administer U/LINC and leverages
the company’s extensive access to industry
and academia, as well as its competency-based
learning and development solutions.
Working directly with thousands of companies,
including more than half of all Fortune 500®
manufacturers, as well as 600 educational
institutions across the country, Tooling U-SME
helps to prepare the incumbent and next generation
workforce by providing industry-driven curriculum.
As part of the agreement, new and current U/
LINC subscribers will receive additional support
services and reporting capabilities; and Tooling
U-SME can now provide the U/LINC platform as
part of its broad-range of learning and development
product offerings. Curriculum materials will also be
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integrated with the industry’s most popular learning
management systems, such as Blackboard, Moodle
and others.
“Tooling U-SME has a proven track record of
providing solutions that help welding educators
enhance their practice, leading to measurable results
and improved performance outcomes,” said Jason
Scales, Ph.D., business development manager for
Lincoln Electric’s Education Division. “We’re excited
about this partnership because it will allow us to
make our industry-recognized welding curriculum
even easier for welding school instructors and
industry trainers to integrate and enhance their
welding programming.”
Lincoln Electric established U/LINC to help welding
educators find the detailed curriculum resources