EGCC will launching welding program, machining lab at Choffin

September 7, 2015 at 7:43p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Eastern Gateway Community College will use three rooms inside Choffin Career and Technical Center to launch its welding program and a machining lab.

Stephen Stohla, interim city schools superintendent, said the school board’s attorney is reviewing the lease and the board is expected to vote on it this month.

“They’re starting a welding program and are upgrading welding equipment,” he said. “Our students will be able to use the equipment during the day when Eastern Gateway isn’t using it.”

Stohla declined to discuss lease terms until the agreement goes before the board.

Jerry Klinesmith, dean of business, engineering and IT at EGCC, said the college will lease three rooms in Choffin: two for welding and one for a machining program.

“We’re putting half a million dollars in [welding] equipment in there,” he said. “