Welding - Technical Diploma

Students gain skills that lead to success in college, employment, and life. Students should take this course in their first semester. (Pre-requisite: None.)

This course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and skills to apply the concepts of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, measurement, proportions, and percent to their career. No prerequisites needed.

Visual inspection of weld and cut edges, manual and machine oxy fuel gas cutting, air carbon arc cutting, plasma arc cutting, and mechanical cutting methods.

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and understanding of orthographic projection, sketching, dimensioning, section and auxiliary views, structural shapes, metric conversation and interpretation of fabrications from prints. (Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program, Metal Fabrication technical diploma or the Intro to MIG Certificate AND Next Gen Rdg score greater/equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater/equal to 15; OR preparatory courses)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of surfacing welds in the flat position, fillet and groove welds on plain carbon steel. (Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welds in the horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions, on fillet and groove welds, with and without backing and overhead T-Joints on plain carbon steel. (Prerequisite: 31-442-342, Shielded Metal Arc Welding 1)

Provide the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of basic line and angle construction, basic measuring techniques, basic squaring techniques, along with basic part layout for fabrication. (Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program or Metal Fabrication technical diploma; Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and understanding of welding symbols AWS and ISO, weld joint nomenclature and welding joint geometry. (Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program, Metal Fabrication technical diploma or the Intro to MIG Certificate)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of…general fabrication equipment safety and operation used for sawing, shearing, bending, drilling, punching and CNC cutting. (Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program or Metal Fabrication technical diploma; Prerequisite: 31-457-337 Metal Fabrication I)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welding in the flat and horizontal positions, fillet, pipe to plate and groove welds on plain carbon steel. (Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welds in the flat, horizontal vertical and overhead positions on fillet, pipe to plate, T-Joints (1F & 2F) and groove welds with and without backing (1G & 2G) on plain carbon steel using the spray mode of transfer and on aluminum. (Prerequisite: 31-442-348, Gas Metal Arc Welding 1)

This course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and skills to apply the concepts of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to their career. (Pre-requisite: Completion of 31-804-304 Vocational Math A with a "C" or better)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop advanced blueprint reading skills to read and interpret moderate to advanced blueprints and shop drawings. (Prerequisites: Accepted into the Welding program or Metal Fabrication program; 31-421-335, Blueprint Reading for Welders1; 31-421-336, Weld Symbols)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of GTAW equipment set-up as well as the basic skills needed to make welds on plain carbon steel. Weld quality will be discussed but this course is only used to understand the basics of the GTAW process. (Prerequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of making groove and fillet weld on sheet metal with plain carbon steel, 3XX stainless steel, GTAW on aluminum as well as multipass groove welds on plain carbon steel. Weld quality will be emphasized with all lab assignments. (Prerequisite: 31-442-359, Gas Tungsten Arc Welding 1)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of surfacing welds in the flat position as well as fillet and groove welds in the flat, horizontal position using gas shielded flux cored arc welding. (Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of fillet and groove welds in the flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions on plate and pipe welds using gas shielded flux cored arc welding and self-shielded flux cored arc welding and metal cored electrodes and sub arc equipment. (Prerequisite: 31-442-329, Flux Cored Arc Welding 1)

Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of building projects from advanced blueprints using all fabrication equipment and welding processes. (Prerequisites: 31-457-337, Metal Fabrication I; 31-457-338, Metal Fabrication II)

Manufacture of iron and steel, mechanical and physical properties of metals, metal identification, macro and microscopic grain structures, welding metallurgy, applied heat treating processes, and weld failures and fractures.