This curriculum offers practical skills and theory in welding, quality assurance, welding design, plasma arccutting, non-destructive testing, plus the mathematics and language skills necessary to mature to a technical or management level career in the welding and fabrication industries. Program Goals: The purpose of the Welding Technology major is to prepare the student for a variety of technical and welding positions consistent within the welding industry. Specifically, this major should prepare the student 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
Construct weldments from sketches, blueprints or verbal instruction
Interpret welding symbols
Follow welding qualification tests/procedures according to specifications of
the ANSI/AWS
D1. 1 structural welding code.
Program and operate CNC plasma/oxy-fuel cutting equipment
Apply the principles of metallurgy to the selections of a welding procedures
Warren County Technical School offers a comprehensive training program in welding.
Being a competency level program, students will be able to complete tasks at
their level of learning as per qualification and certification as an entry-level
welder by the American Welding Society.
WELDING 1 prerequisite - none 10 credits
Initial instruction offers theatrical and hands on training in safety procedures,
the identification of welding processes, welding shop orientation, blueprint
reading and the uses of equipment and tools. Students receive training in oxyacetylene
welding and cutting processes, shielded metal arc welding and air carbon-arc
cutting.
WELDING 2 prerequisite - Welding 1 15 credits
Initial instruction offers theatrical and hands on training in safety procedures,
the identification of welding processes, welding shop orientation, blueprint
reading and the uses of equipment and tools. Students receive training in oxyacetylene
welding and cutting processes, shielded metal arc welding in the 1 to 4 positions
with F and G joint designs along with gas metal arc welding.
WELDING 3 prerequisite - Welding 2 15 credits
Advanced training concentrates on developing skills in gas metal arc welding
and flux cored arc welding, gas tungsten, arc welding, plasma arc cutting, metallurgy
and heat treating of materials and welding inspection and testing principles.
WELDING 4 prerequisite - Welding 3 20 credits
The students who attain adequate levels of competency can obtain a welding related
job through the Cooperative Industrial Education Coordinator as an option, or
the students can concentrate on advanced training in all the areas of the welding
program. Also, students are required to complete an individualized fabrication
of a project according to blueprints specifications.