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Welding (WE)
Academic School: Industrial & Engineering Technologies
(Effective Fall 2009)

Certificate

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:  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.

Welding Core Courses: WEL 113-WEL 239 are two-credit, eight-week classes.

Additional Information:  American Welding Society (AWS) test facility.

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