Welding Certificate

Major Code: (9402)

Certificate Learning Outcomes

The successful student will:

• Demonstrate his or her ability to work within the safety guidelines of a welding/fabrication shop.
• Perform the proper equipment inspections to ensure safety guideline compliance.
• Layout and prepare for cutting various parts, assemblies, and or coupons to be welded.
• Correctly set up, operate, shut down, and disassemble an oxy/fuel gas torch system.
• Correctly clean and prepare surfaces to be welded
• Correctly fit up and maintain alignment of the assemblies or coupons to be welded.
• Properly adjust the welding process power sources in preparation for tacking and welding the assemblies or coupons to be welded.
• Weld the assemblies or coupons to meet the applicable code requirements.
• Perform the inspection processes to ensure the welded assemblies or coupons meet the requirements of the applicable code.

The Welding Certificate Program is a nine-month program designed to train welders for jobs relating to structural welding and fabricating applications. The program will provide the student with a strong foundation in the following fields: structural welding and fabrication, destructive and non-destructive weld testing techniques, and welding code compliance requirements. Upon the successful completion of the program, a student will have the necessary welding skills to pass the AWS structural welding performance test. Any student, successfully passing the welding performance test, will receive welding certifications applicable to the highest level welding performance test he or she successfully performs. In addition to performing the actual welding, the student will be able to select, prepare, and perform destructive and non-destructive testing on welding specimens. In addition to welding skills, the program will require the student to complete coursework in the fields of print reading, machine tool operations (lathes, milling machines, drill presses, etc.), technical mathematics, and technical communications. This broad-based foundation will afford the students, who successfully complete the program, the opportunity to become productive employees for companies ranging from structural/ fabrication welding shops to repair/rebuild machine shops.