College Catalog

This curriculum offers practical skills, training, and welding with theory and practice in oxy-fuel welding, inert gas shielded metal arc welding, flux-core arc welding, shielded metal arc welding, non-destructive testing and quality assurance, and CNC plasma cutting.

Career Opportunities

Construction welding, shipbuilding, fitting, industrial and production welding.

Recommended High School Subjects

Industrial arts or vocational welding or metalworking courses, introductory blueprint reading, and technical math.

Remediation Strategies

All entering students will be tested for English, math, and reading deficiencies. Students should remediate any deficiencies prior to enrollment. It is recommended that students remediate deficiencies in the following order of priority: mathematics, English, reading.

Transfer Procedures

This major is subject to the transfer standards established by the College (see http://www.pct.edu/catalog/TransferringCredits.htm ). Exceptions must be approved by the school dean.

Program Goals

A graduate of this major should be able to:

• weld safely in shop and field operations.
• work safely and avoid practices that are unsafe to others.
• weld using oxy-fuel, electric and inert gas shielded methods.
• distinguish the types of welding power sources, their characteristics, uses, and limitations.
• inspect welding jobs using visual, destructive, and non-destructive testing methods.
• construct weldments from sketches, blueprints, or verbal instructions.
• interpret welding symbols.
• select the proper welding process, procedure, supplies, etc., based on cost limitations.
• identify ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
• test the physical and mechanical properties of metals, as related to weldability.
• follow welding qualification test/procedures according to specifications of the AWS, API, and ASME codes.

Curriculum

Additional Information

American Welding Society (AWS) test facility.