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WELDING TECHNOLOGY Credentials: Associate in Applied Science Degree Diploma - One Year and Two Year |
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| Credit hour requirements for graduation: | Degree - 74
Diploma ( Two year) - 72 Diploma (One year) - 34 Certificate - 20 |
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| The first year of Basic Welding Technology provides students with technical understanding of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) basic, advanced, structural and pipe, Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) and Air Arc Gouging. Students receive training to develop the manual skills necessary to make quality welds on mild steel, plate, and pipe in accordance with American Welding Society D1.1 Structural Welding Code and American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section IX Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. | |||
| Acceptance for the second year is based upon grade point average, job performance in welding, and recommendation of the Welding Technology Department. Of special interest is the choice offered to second-year diploma candidates. As they begin the second year of their programs of study, students select one of two options: Advanced Welding or Pipe Fabrication. A two-year diploma candidate can also elect to take Pipe Fabrication during the first year of study provided he/she can show validation of welding experience and receives permission from the Welding Technology Department and the Academic Dean. | |||
| The second year of study provides an option for students in the Advanced Welding Concentration with opportunities to gain technical knowledge and skills in Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). Students will weld mild steel and aluminum using the GMAW process and the GTAW process to weld mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum plate and mild steel and stainless steel pipe. The welding will be performed in accordance with the welding codes. Emphasis is placed on boiler tube and power pipe welding, using the technique and skills of "walking the cup." In addition, instruction includes a course in weld quality assurance and quality control with the development of a quality assurance program for an imagined industry contrived by the student. | |||
| Another option for the first, second, or third year is The Pipe Fabrication Concentration, Welding Associate's Degree, Diploma, or Certificate Program. This focuses on the safe use and care of hand and power tools, oxyacetylene cutting equipment, welding machines, and specialty pipe power tools. The technology provides training in threading pipe and installing threaded and socket-weld piping systems. Also, butt-weld pipe fabrication and installation are offered. In this concentration, students identify and interpret standards and codes; build above-ground pipe installations, complete with valves; perform field routing and vessel trim, fabricate stainless steel branch connections, install pipe from mechanical drawings, create field sketches, perform advanced pipe fabrication, study high pressure boiler nomenclature and operation of vessel trim equipment. Students apply the mathematics of trigonometry to calculate and fabricate and install rolling offsets of any degree of turn and roll, and layout and cut from a factory elbow, an any-degree-of-turn elbow. Students perform mock-up simulations in a laboratory setting that represent piping and equipment found in typical steam generating and process flow/process control operations. Some students choose to remain in the technology for three years. They may continue during the third year in the Pipe Fabrication Concentration or the Advanced Welding Programs. | |||
| Graduates of the one-year Diploma program find employment in shipbuilding, fabrication, construction, mechanical, and the maintenance industries. Graduates of the two-year Diploma and the Associate in Applied Science Degree enjoy expanded employment opportunities in the same fields, plus, Quality Assurance and Quality Control, Welding Inspection, and mid-management positions in a number of metal trades industries. Pipe fabricator graduates enjoy employment opportunities for maintenance, repairs, and new construction in the papermaking industry, in shipbuilding, plumbing, heating and air conditioning applications, and in all facets of the construction industry. | |||
The Structural Welding
Certificate Program, offered primarily in the evening, provides
the education and training needed to enter the welding industry as a structural
welder. This program is designed for professionals working in the maintenance
and construction trades and for persons wanting to retrain for new employment.
Students can continue their present employment while learning the welding
skills to become certified welders under the Jurisdiction of the American
Welding Society.
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