Sequim resident Dave Brasher, co-owner and co-founder of High Energy Metals, presents a lecture for the Studium Generale lecture series from 12:35-1:25 p.m. Jan. 22 in the Little Theater on Peninsula College’s main campus, 1502 E. Laurisden Blvd., Port Angeles.

Along with co-owner and co-founder Don Butler, Brasher runs High Energy Metals, a small explosive welding company in Carlsborg. Both Brasher and Butler have worked with Peninsula College welding instructor and program coordinator Jeramie O’Dell and have employed graduates of the P.C. program as well as supporting their employees in various educational programs through the college and other institutions.

Brasher is well known in Sequim and Port Angeles for his volunteer involvement in Citizens for Sequim Schools and long tenure as a soccer coach for youth, including nearly 20 years as the Sequim High School boys’ soccer coach.

He has more than 25 years experience in the welding field, including an advanced degree earned in southern New Mexico. He and Butler started in Port Townsend before moving the business to Carlsborg.

The company has experience with producing parts for the medical industry and defense industry as well as recently fashioning a part which is now on the Mars Rover.

The process by which they use high explosives to bond dissimilar metals will be central to Brasher’s presentation, which is free and open to the public.

For more information, e-mail Studium Generale coordinator Kate Reavey at kreavey@pencol.edu or call 417-6489.