Welding Technology (Certificate)

Program Overview

The Welding Technology certificate course prepares students for entry-level work in the welding industry. Students learn about safety, hand tools, oxyacetylene torches, plasma arc, shielded metal arc welding (stick), gas metal arc welding (MIG), gas tungsten arc welding (TIG), flux cored arc welding, metallurgy, print reading, and weld symbols.

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Career Opportunities

Graduates work as welders, welder/fabricators, maintenance welders, fitters, ornamental metal sculptors, and welder helpers.

Typical employers in the welding industry include structural steel fabricators, custom metal shops, industrial contractors, shipyards, pipe and pressure vessel fabricators, and retail welding sales.

Program Learning Goals

Goal 1: The welding program will prepare the graduate for entry level employment in welding.

Student Learning Outcomes – Students will:

Demonstrate safe welding practices
Perform basic welding skills in SMAW (stick), GMAW (mig), GTAW (tig) and oxyfuel cutting procedures
Perform basic maintenance on welding machines
Interpret basic welding symbols

Course Outline

Major Courses (18 Credits)
WTC 151	Shielded Metal Arc Welding	2
WTC 152	Shielded Metal Arc Welding Lab	4
WTC 153	Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding I	1
WTC 154	Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding I Lab	2
WTC 155	Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding II	1
WTC 156	Gas Metal and Flux Cored Arc Welding II Lab	2
WTC 157	Gas Tungsten Arc Welding	2
WTC 158	Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Lab	4
Related Courses (5 Credits)
ART 101	Blueprint Reading	2
BTT 149	Construction Safety	1
MAT 100	Applied Mathematics for Welders	3
General Education Courses (7 Credits)
CPT 101	Microcomputer I	3
ENG 101	English Composition I	3
SSS 101	Student Success Seminar	1
Minimum Credits to Graduate		31

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