Welding

Course Descriptions

All welding classes are taught as flex-entry, competency based instruction in the welding lab. Letter grade or satisfactory/unsatisfactory option. S/U grades may not be used to fulfill graduation requirements.

WELD 1710
OXYACETYLENE WELDING         
The student will develop welding safety and good shop practice skills. Topics of study include: Oxyacetylene welding and brazing of mild steel; Oxyfuel Safety; Oxyfuel Welding and Brazing Equipment and Oxyfuel Welding and Brazing Performance tasks.
Prerequisite: None
Flexible Entry

WELD 1715
Oxyacetylene Cutting
Topics of study include Oxyacetylene cutting of circles, bevel edges, straight cuts and free-hand pipe beveling. Flame cutting equipment techniques will be taught using a hand-held cutting torch, a straight line track burner and a coordinate shape cutter.
Prerequisite: None
Flexible Entry

WELD 1755
SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING                    
The student should be able to discuss SMAW, its processes and principals; have a basic knowledge of welding power supplies, tools and equipment and be able to discuss electrical safety. Topics of study include an introduction to welding, principles of arc welding and shielded metal arc electrodes.
Prerequisite: None
Flexible Entry

WELD 1760
ADV. SHIELDED METAL ARC WELDING       
The student should be able to weld tee joints in the horizontal position using E-7024 welding electrodes as well as single and multi-pass welds in the vertical-up and overhead positions using E-6010 and E-7018 welding electrodes. The student will become familiar with air-arc cutting and gouging techniques.
Prerequisite: WELD 1755 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 1770
GAS METAL ARC WELDING
The student will learn the processes and principles of GMAW and FCAW. The student will be able to differentiate between short-circuit and spray-arc transfer, and know the different types of electrode wires and shielding gases used in GMAW and FCAW. The student will use shortcircuit, duel shield, and the flux cored processes for welding tee joints, V-grove butt joints on mild steel and aluminum.
Prerequisite: WELD 1840 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 1774
GAS METAL ARC WELDING – PIPE                  
The student will learn the techniques necessary to create full penetration welds on schedule 40 carbon steel pipe in all positions using the Gas Metal Arc process with ER70S filler metal with a 75%/25% Argon/CO2 shielding gas.
Prerequisites: WELD 1770 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 1776
FLUX CORED ARC WELDING – PIPE                
The student will learn the techniques necessary to make code quality FCA welds on pipe in all positions using GMAW root and hot passes and FCAW on the remaining fill and cap. Such welds will be made on 6” schedule 80 pipe or larger. E70-T1 or equivalent will be used as the filler metal with a 75%/25% Argon/CO2 shielding gas.
Prerequisite: WELD 1774
Flexible Entry

WELD 1780
GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING - PLATE     
The student will learn the processes, principles and equipment involved in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding. The student should be able to discuss electrical safety in GTAW, how to properly handle welding and cooling systems, and solve problems concerning GTAW. Topics of study include GTAW welding on carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum plate using 16 gauge and 3/8” mild steel plate.
Prerequisites: WELD 1840 and WELD 1950 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 1840
GROOVE WELDING PLATE               
The student will learn to weld Single Vee-groove butt joints in the flat, horizontal, vertical-up and overhead position with and without backing strips. Students will use E-6010 welding electrodes for root beads and E-7018 welding electrodes for fill and cap. Students will learn to prepare bend test specimens for destructive testing and be given an opportunity to certify upon completion of this course.
Prerequisites: WELD 1760 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 1860
WELDING FABRICATION               
This course is designed to provide skills and knowledge for structural steel and some pipe layout. Students will draft their own projects, learn and identify welding and drafting symbols. Students will also learn to record time spent on a project and as well as the total cost of the project. Taught in Outreach only
Prerequisites: WELD 1755 and WELD 1760 or Instructor Permission

WELD 1950
SMAW Stainless Steel Basic
This course is intended to introduce the student to the basic of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) of Stainless Steel welding on plate. The course includes an introduction to the AWS electrode classification system for stainless steel covered electrodes, their characteristics and uses.
Prerequisite: WELD 1760
Flexible Entry

WELD 1960
SUBMERGED ARC WELDING       
Students will learn the basics of the Submerged Arc Welding Process. Topics include: SAW processes and safety, SAW power sources and equipment, SAW electrodes and fluxes and SAW procedures and joint designs.
Prerequisites: WELD 1774 and WELD 1776
Flexible Entry

WELD 2510
PIPE WELDING I: SCHEDULE 40 PIPE             
This course is intended to teach the student the basics of SMAW welding on pipe in the 2G, 5G vertical-up and 6G vertical-up positions. The student will learn to differentiate between basic categories of pipe welding, select proper electrodes for pipe welding, discuss joint preparation and learn methods for destructive and non-destructive pipe testing. E6010 welding electrodes will be used on root beads and E7018 will be used on the fill and cap passes. Students will be given an opportunity to pass a pipe weld certification test upon completion of this course.
Prerequisites: WELD 1840 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2520
PIPE WELDING II: SCHEDULE 80 PIPE           
This self-paced course is offered all semesters as both a day and an evening class, and students employed in shift-work may attend either session. Topics of study include welding to specifications V-groove joints on schedule 80 pipe in the 2G, 5G, and 6G positions. The SMAW process will be used and E-6010 will be used on the roots and E-7018 will be used on all filler passes. All welding in this block will be done in the vertical up and horizontal up method. All welds will be tested with the destructive bend tester and the tests for certification may also be
radiographed.
Prerequisites: WELD 2510 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2530
DOWNHIL PIPE WELDING
The student will weld to specifications Vee-groove butt joints in the 2G, 5G vertical-down and the 6G vertical-down positions. The E6010 electrode will be used for the root pass and when required, for the hot pass. E7010, or 70+ (E8010), will be used for the fill and cap passes. Performance tests in this course will be conducted to the specifications of the American Petroleum Institute’s 1104 code procedures.
Prerequisites: WELD 1840 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2540
PIPE LAYOUT & FABRICATION  
The student will learn to calculate run, set and travel for pipe runs, rolling offsets, two-piece parallel offsets and other pipe run configurations. The student will learn to use the framing square, the pipe wrap-around, two hole pins and other pipe fitting tools to layout, fit up and tack weld pipe assemblies. The student will use the hand-held cutting torch to make bevel cuts to extreme accuracy.
Prerequisites: WELD 2520 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2630
Welding for the Arts I
This course is intended to introduce the student to the basics of gas metal arc welding (GMAW) and how it can be applied to basic welding projects such as metal sculpture, auto repair, metal fence building and theatre set production. The student should be able to discuss GMAW, its processors and principals, have a basic knowledge of welding power supplies, tools and equipment and be able to discuss electrical safety. This course is not intended for Welding majors.
Prerequisite: None

WELD 2635
Welding for the Arts II
This course is a continuation of Welding for the Arts I. This segment concentrates on the use of Shielded Metal Arc Welding, (SMAW), as applied to metal sculpture, auto repair; fence building and theatre set fabrication. Students will be required to fabricate a metal sculpture or other weldments as a final project. This course is not intended for Welding majors.
Prerequisite: None

WELD 2650
GAS TUNGSTEN ARC WELDING – PIPE         
Topics of study include (GTAW) heliarc welding on schedule 40 - 2” pipe and schedule 80 - 6” pipe. Both sizes of pipe will be welding in the 2G, 5G and 6G positions. Root and hot passes will be welded with heliarc and the remaining passes with 7018.
Prerequisites: WELD 1780 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2660
STAINLES STEEL PIPE WELDING                      
The student will learn the procedure for GTAW of stainless steel on carbon steel 6” pipe for the root and the second pass, and SMAW stainless steel for the remainder of the filler passes and cap. The student will also learn other welds on 6” pipe done using the GTAW process with stainless steel all the way out. Welds will be made in the 2G, 5G, and 6G positions.
Prerequisites: WELD 2650 or Instructor Permission
Flexible Entry

WELD 2670
WELDING INSPECTION TECHNOLOGY
The purpose of this course is to give the student a basic understanding of weld inspection procedures, welding codes and standards, destructive and non-destructive inspection techniques and the preparation of supporting documents.
Prerequisites: WELD 1840 or Instructor Permission

WELD 2810
CERTIFICATION TEST TRAINING
This course is an introduction to the proper techniques and practices needed to meet the requirements of Weld Certification Testing.
Prerequisite: None

 

Technology

TECH 1000
INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS          
This first course in technical mathematics is intended for students with minimal mathematics background, who wish to prepare for further study in technical areas. Topics include algebra, geometry, measurements, proportions and applied trigonometry. Use of the hand-held calculator is emphasized throughout the course.
Prerequisite: Pre Algebra COMPASS score of 32

TECH 1550
GENERAL METALLURGY
This course introduces the student to the mechanical, physical and chemical properties of metals and the methods by which these properties can be changed by alloying, heat treating and mechanical deformation.
Prerequisite: None

TECH 1600
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
This course will investigate several areas of occupational safety and industrial hygienes: Personal Safety including basic protection, safety hazards, safety equipment, lifting and good housekeeping; Fire Safety in including fire chemistry, types of fire, portable and builtin extinguisher systems; Respiratory Protection including respiratory hazards, air purifying respirators, and use and care of apparatus; Hazardous Substances including common industrial hazards such as corrosive, flammable, explosive, toxic, radiological, and biological hazards.
Prerequisite: None

TECH 1680
READING TECHNICAL SCHEMATICS
This course presents students with fundamental knowledge relative to reading and interpreting technical symbols used in industrial schematics. Specific topics addressed in this course are electrical, piping, and fluid power systems, and interpretation of basic assembly drawings.
Prerequisite: None

TECH 1681
READING TECHNICAL SCHEMATICS, FOR INDUSTRY
This course presents students with fundamental knowledge relative to reading and interpreting technical symbols used in industrial schematics. This course concentrated on fluid power and electrical schematics.
Prerequisite: None