From left to right: Frank Hribar, Stephen Heinze, Bonnie McArthur and Gail Harmon. Photo courtesy of Dawn Hibbard

EnTech Engineering, Inc. is proud to present their company sign to Kettering University as part of their “Wall of  Employers.” Project Engineer, Stephen Heinze was on hand to deliver the sign on May 3, 2010. He began working for EnTech five  years ago as a Kettering co-op student and upon graduating accepted a full time engineering position. Over 500 employer partners make up Kettering’s advanced engineering co-op program and EnTech is proud to be among them.

As part of the co-op program EnTech trains future engineers years before graduation. Students are required to work six full 3-month rotations before being eligible to graduate. This allows the students to gain unmatched experience while still in school and allows EnTech to have a well trained, progressive and competent engineering team. Participating in this program has allowed  EnTech to keep the leading edge innovation that today’s industries demand.

We are happy to announce that we will be welcoming a new Kettering co-op student this spring. Kettering University’s cooperative educations program is known as one of the most successful in the nation. EnTech Engineering, Inc. has been involved with this program for over 5 years and has special ties with the university. CEO, Gary J. Weil is an alumnus of the university and is impressed with the caliber of students presented through the program.

EnTech's traveling computer

It was the early 1980’s and where there is a will…there is a way.

Before the time of laptops, we needed a computer on the jobsite, so we created our own traveling “laptop” by loading up the monitors & hard drives into a van and had a truck carry the electric generator. Later, we used marine batteries to run the computers.

Now, we use powerful & light-weight laptops on client sites.

We’ve come a long way in 30 years!

It was 1980, a gallon of gas cost $1.19, a half gallon of milk was $0.85 and the average income was $19,000; and EnTech Engineering, Inc. was started by Gary J. Weil in a one room office in downtown St.Louis, Missouri. The purpose: to perform industrial, civil and residential state-of-the-art, infrared, thermographic testing and analyses.

This was ambitious considering  this was  also the year that a “hands free operating car phone” was introduced with a $788.00 price tag, IBM began releasing their first “personal computer” and we hadn’t even been introduced to Knight Rider yet!

During the past 30 years, we have maintained our leadership in the NDT market by improving services to meet rising customer demands by developing unique stacked technologies to provide our clients with superior data and better analysis tools.  We hold 10 U.S. and International patents, have published over 70 international papers, and have contributed to standard NDT manuals.

That one room office has long been replaced by our World Headquarters in Ballwin, MO and our production facility in St.Louis, MO. And, Mr.Weil is no longer alone in the office, he is  surrounded by a professional engineering and support staff.

So, yes it is with great pride and joy that we are celebrating our 30^th anniversary and looking forward to many more. As we take a trip down memory lane and look upon our humble beginnings, we are thankful for our satisfied and loyal customers, and for our hardworking employees that have made this company what it is today.