Welding
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Majors
PURPOSE: Employment opportunities exist for individuals proficient in advanced welding techniques. This program is designed for students with no previous experience in welding, as well as for individuals currently employed in the welding field who wish to upgrade their skills. Individuals entering the Welding Career Studies Certificate (CSC) should consider this program as a means of developing or advancing their job skills over a one-year period of time and as a means of acquiring the skills necessary to test for the various levels of welding certification.
OCCUPATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Opportunities for graduates include construction welder, fabrication welder, and welding supply salesperson.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS: General college curricular admission
Curriculum
Courses should be taken in the order listed. To help with course planning, download curriculum planning Roadmap.
Presents an introduction to occupational health and safety and its application in the workplace. Emphasizes safety standards and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), its rules and regulations (OSHA 10).
Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour per week.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Introduces history of welding processes. Covers types of equipment and assembly of units. Stresses welding procedures such as fusion, non-fusion, and cutting oxyacetylene. Introduces arc welding and plasma arc cutting. Emphasizes procedures in the use of tools and equipment.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Introduces students to basic equipment, safety, and processes useful in the fabrication of welded ornamental objects.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 1 hour.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Introduces semi-automatic welding processes with emphasis on practical application. Includes the study of filler wires, fluxes, and gases. Introduces practical operations in the use of gas metal arc welding and equipment. Studies equipment operation setup, safety, and practice of semi-automatic welding processes.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hour.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Teaches fundamentals required for successful drafting as applied to the welding industry. Includes blueprint reading, geometric principles of drafting and freehand sketching, basic principles of orthographic projection, preparation of drawings, and interpretation of symbols.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Introduces practical operations in the use of tungsten arc welding and equipment. Studies equipment operation setup, safety, and practice of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG).
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Continues instruction on operation of AC and DC power sources, welding polarities, heats and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process. Deals with running beads, butt, and fillet welds in all positions. Emphasizes safety procedures.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Prerequisites: WEL 120 or instructor’s approval.
PURPOSE: The program offers a career pathway that enables learners to continue their studies for advanced skills. Those who complete this certificate will be well prepared to fill the gap in industrial manufacturing between the welder/fitter-welder and the welding shop supervisor by being better prepared in structural and maintenance welding. Structural and pipe welders join and assemble components as part of the construction of buildings, vessels, structures, and stand-alone pipelines. They use a variety of welding processes and equipment, in a wide range of industrial and commercial environments.
OCCUPATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Opportunities for graduates include shop supervisor, weld inspector, onsite welder, fitter/welder, pipe welder, and advanced structural welder.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS: General college curricular admission
PROGRAM NOTES: Students should possess the competencies obtained by completion of WEL 120 - Introduction to Welding, WEL 160 - Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG and FCAW), and WEL 164 - Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG), or may petition for program head approval to enroll in the program.
Curriculum
Courses should be taken in the order listed. To help with course planning, download curriculum planning Roadmap.
Focuses on the principles and techniques of safety and first aid.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours per week.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Provides a foundation in mathematics with emphasis in arithmetic, unit conversion, basic algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Prerequisites: Competency in Introductory Algebra MDE 10 as demonstrated through placement or by satisfactorily completing MDE 10.
Covers the application of formulas and calculations to the proper layout and fitting of metals in welding projects. Emphasizes the use of jigs, fixtures, and hand tools in metal fabrication and assembly along with fabrication and safety procedures for hands-on and workplace projects.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Studies techniques and practices of testing welded joints through destructive and nondestructive testing.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Studies steel classifications, heat-treatment procedures, and properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Discusses techniques and practices of testing welded joints and destructive/nondestructive, visual magnetic, and fluorescent testing.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 3 hours per week.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 1 hour per week.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring
Teaches metal arc welding processes, including the welding of pressure piping in the horizontal, vertical, and horizontal-fixed positions in accordance with Section IX of the ASME Code.
Lecture Hours: Lecture 2 hours.
Recitation and Laboratory Hours: Laboratory 3 hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall Spring