Welding

Courses

WG 115/WELD 11595: Introduction to Welding

Common Course Number
WELD 11595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5
This course is a foundation that covers the principles and procedures for various welding applications. Students will have hands-on experience using oxy-fuel cutting, plasma cutting, air carbon, arc cutting, exothermic cutting, and arc and oxyacetylene welding.

WG 125/WELD 12595: Arc Welding I

Common Course Number
WELD 12595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5
This course is designed to teach Shielded Metal Arc Welding applications in welding mild, steel, flat and horizontal position.

WG 133/WELD 11073: Welding Blueprint Reading

Common Course Number
WELD 11073
Lecture Hours 3 Credits 3

This course is designed to acquaint welding students with the fundamentals of reading welding blueprints and interpreting welding symbols according to the American Welding Society Standards inspections.

WG 135/WELD 13595: Arc Welding II

Common Course Number
WELD 13595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5

This course is designed to give the student practical experience in welding joints and beads on light gauge steels and thick metals such as structural steels in the vertical and overhead.

WG 145/WELD 14595: Inert Gas Welding I

Common Course Number
WELD 14595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5

This course provides instruction and practical application in gas tungsten arc welding (tig) and gas metal arc welding (mig).

WG 155/WELD 15595: Pipe Welding

Common Course Number
WELD 15595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5
This course will consist of welding V-Butt joints on plate steel found in the welding of pipe.

WG 165/WELD 16595: Inert Gas Welding II

Common Course Number
WELD 16595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5
This course emphasizes welding applications of ferrous, nonferrous, stainless steel and alloy metals in horizontal, vertical and overhead positions.

WG 175/WELD 17595: Certification Welding

Common Course Number
WELD 17595
Lecture/Lab Hours
5
Credits 5
Students are required to study and practice qualifications to take American Welding Society (AWS) performance tests. These tests consist of destructive, and nondestructive, guided bend, acid, tensile, magnetic, dye penetrate, radiographic, ultra sonic, microscopic, eddy current, and visual inspections.

WG 1152/WELD 11692: Introcution to Welding II

Common Course Number
WELD 11692
Lecture Hours 2 Credits 2

This course is a continuation of WG 1153/WELD 11793 and completes the requisite for the student to receive credit for WG 115/WELD 11595. WG 1152/WELD 11692 acts as a second semester follow-up to WG1153/WELD 11793 for Secondary Technical Center students.

WG 1153/WELD 11793: Introduction to Welding I

Common Course Number
WELD 11793
Lecture Hours 3 Credits 3

A first part of offering from the curriculum course WG 115/WELD 11595, but broken down into two (2) semesters to more appropriately fit into the schedules of Secondary Technical Center students.