Welding - Certificate B

This course is a study of professional workplace behavior; development of personal, educational, and professional career goals; and understanding of effective job-seeking skills. Also included is an overview of laws relating to labor relations, contracts, and personnel matters. Students completing a certificate or an AAS degree will complete this course near the end of their program of study.

Prerequisite(s): None

Through a variety of classroom and/or lab learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: explain job/site safety and precautions for job/site hazards; determine the uses of personal protective equipment (PPE); identify the safety equipment and procedures related to safe work practices and environment; identify fire prevention and protection techniques; explore Hazardous Communications (HazCom) including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).

Prerequisite(s): None

The 10-hour General Industry Outreach Training Program is intended to provide an entry level worker's general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards in a general industry setting.

Prerequisite(s): None

This course covers metallurgical principles applied to welding including mechanisms of strengthening, phase equilibria, and microstructure of the weld zone.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1010 OSHA 10 and WLD 1001 Welding Safety or WLD 100 Welding Safety/OSHA 10.

In this course students will be provided exposure to blueprint reading beginning with identification of specific lines, views, abbreviations, symbols, joints and shapes specific to the welding industry. Students will interpret basic 3D sketches using orthographic projection and blueprints and solve mathematic equations and interpret scale ratios. Use of measuring tools and interpreting a Bill of Materials are also components of this course.

Prerequisite(s): None

As a welder you have the responsibility to evaluate your weldments, identify and classify discontinues and defects and the conditions that exist when evaluating discontinuities in order to decide whether they are acceptable or not.

Prerequisite(s): None

This course will include the cutting of ferrous metals with manual motor-driven and automatic oxy-acetylene shape cutting equipment, as well as high-energy plasma arch and carbon-arch cutting.

Prerequisite(s): None

Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: describe the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process (SMAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of the SMAW workstation; associate SMAW electrode classifications with base metals and joint criteria; demonstrate proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the horizontal position; perform basic SMAW welds on selected weld joints; and perform visual inspection of welds.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1010 OSHA 10 and WLD 1001 Welding Safety or WLD 100 Welding Safety/OSHA 10.

Through classroom and/or shop/lab learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: explain gas metal arc welding process (GMAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of the GMAW workstation.; correlate GMAW electrode classifications with base metals and joint criteria; demonstrate proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the horizontal position; produce basic GMAW welds on selected weld joints; and conduct visual inspection of GMAW welds.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1010 OSHA 10 and WLD 1001 Welding Safety or WLD 100 Welding Safety/OSHA 10.

Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will explain the gas tungsten arc welding process (GTAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of the GTAW workstation; relate GTAW electrode and filler metal classifications with base metals and joint criteria; build proper electrode and filler metal selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes and filler material in the vertical position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes and filler material in the overhead position; perform basic GTAW welds on selected weld joints; and perform visual inspection of GTAW welds.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1010 OSHA 10 and WLD 1001 Welding Safety or WLD 100 Welding Safety/OSHA 10.

To provide knowledge for the welder and fitter to become familiar with the types of set-up tools and their use and to locate and align parts according to design specifications for the completed weldment.

Prerequisite(s): None

This course will provide advanced instruction in shielded metal arc welding safety, theory, and the skills used for all positions of shielded metal arc welding.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1001, WLD 1010, WLD 110, WLD 1153, WLD 118, WLD 1303, WLD 140, WLD 150, and WLD 171.

Students will receive instruction in proper setup and operation of MIG welding equipment to weld in all positions on aluminum and mild steel.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1001, WLD 1010, WLD 110, WLD 1153, WLD 118, WLD 1303, WLD 140, WLD 150, and WLD 171.

Students will receive instruction on the proper setup and use of flux cored arc welding equipment.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1001, WLD 1010, WLD 110, WLD 1153, WLD 118, WLD 1303, WLD 140, WLD 150, and WLD 171.

Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: demonstrate practical applications of pipe joint preparation and design to AWS (American Welding Society) welding codes specifications for pipe and pipe fittings, geometric curve design for branched joint of piping systems, wire and electrodes selections, SMAW, GMAW, and GTAW of pipe joints, welding discontinuities and defects, and methods of inspection and testing.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1001, WLD 1010, WLD 110, WLD 1153, WLD 118, WLD 1303, WLD 140, WLD 150, and WLD 171.

This course covers advanced topics in GTAW welding, including welding in Aluminum and Stainless Steel in all positions. The students will identify causes and sources for weld pool contaminates.

Prerequisite(s): WLD 1001, WLD 1010, WLD 110, WLD 1153, WLD 118, WLD 1303, WLD 140, WLD 150, and WLD 171.

Select from WLD 190 Welding Project Management or WLD 199 Occupational Work Experience.

Select from WLD 190 Welding Project Management or WLD 199 Occupational Work Experience.