Welding

Degrees and Certificates

Courses

WG 115: Introduction to Welding

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: Arc Welding I

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: Welding Blueprint Reading

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: Arc Welding II

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: Inert Gas Welding II

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: Pipe Welding

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: Inert Gas Welding II

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: Certification Welding

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 1153: Introduction to Welding I

Lecture Hours 3 Credits 3

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