TEK Center is a nonprofit proprietary school in Salyersville, Kentucky that provides fast-track, hands-on skilled-trades training for Eastern Kentucky. Its welding curriculum covers shielded metal arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc and gas tungsten arc welding. The school states that the curriculum meets AWS SENSE standards for Entry Welders and U.S. Department of Labor apprenticeship requirements. TEK also trains students in electrical work, industrial mechanics and heavy-equipment operation, and describes its programs as job-focused pathways completed in less than one year.