Welder: Advanced

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of arc welding fundamentals including welding safety MIG welding blueprint reading welding symbols AWS 14.3 welding standard air carbon arc reclaim welding and cutting. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet and groove welds in flat and horizontal position.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec, 2 lab/week

This course introduces the fundamental theory safety practices equipment and techniques required for shielded metal arc welding SMAW in the flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions. Qualification tests in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions are used in the evaluation of student progress toward making industrial standard welds.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the Metal Inert gas MIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as gas metal arc welding GMAW including the following topics welding safety power sources and wire feeders machine setup adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds metal transfer methods wire selection shielding gas selection and testing procedures Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove and overlap welds in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the Tungsten Inert Gas TIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding GTAW including the following topics welding safety power sources machine setup adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds filler wire selection shielding gas selection testing procedures other TIG processes including stainless steel and aluminum. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality TIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove and overlap welds in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the basics of Metal Inert Gas MIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as Gas Metal Arc Welding GMAW and stick welding also referred to as Shielded Metal Arc Welding SMAW including the following topics welding safety power sources and wire feeders machine set up adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds and welding techniques. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG and SMAW welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove overlap welds in a flat position. Oxyacetylene cutting equipment setup and safety will also be emphasized.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to give students hands-on understanding of robotic are welding. Topics to be covered include safely jogging the robot setting up welding equipment robotic welding teach pendent robotic welding parameters motion types programming examples saving and backing up robot programs and controller files. Students will develop robotic welding programs using robot controllers application software and hardware.

Prerequisite: WLD 103 MIG Welding or WLD 106 Fundamentals of Welding. Corequisite: WLD 103 or WLD 106 can be taken concurrently with WLD 140
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of arc welding fundamentals including welding safety MIG welding blueprint reading welding symbols AWS 14.3 welding standard air carbon arc reclaim welding and cutting. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet and groove welds in flat and horizontal position.

Prerequisite: None
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec, 2 lab/week

This course introduces the fundamental theory safety practices equipment and techniques required for shielded metal arc welding SMAW in the flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions. Qualification tests in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions are used in the evaluation of student progress toward making industrial standard welds.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the basics of Metal Inert Gas MIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as Gas Metal Arc Welding GMAW and stick welding also referred to as Shielded Metal Arc Welding SMAW including the following topics welding safety power sources and wire feeders machine set up adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds and welding techniques. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG and SMAW welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove overlap welds in a flat position. Oxyacetylene cutting equipment setup and safety will also be emphasized.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the Metal Inert gas MIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as gas metal arc welding GMAW including the following topics welding safety power sources and wire feeders machine setup adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds metal transfer methods wire selection shielding gas selection and testing procedures Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality MIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove and overlap welds in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the Tungsten Inert Gas TIG arc welding fundamentals also referred to as Gas Tungsten Arc Welding GTAW including the following topics welding safety power sources machine setup adjustment and maintenance identification of welding defects and quality welds filler wire selection shielding gas selection testing procedures other TIG processes including stainless steel and aluminum. Training to develop the manual skills necessary to make high quality TIG welds is included with emphasis placed in the areas of various joint configurations single pass multiple pass fillet groove and overlap welds in flat horizontal vertical and overhead positions.

Prerequisite: Non
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week

This course is designed to give students hands-on understanding of robotic are welding. Topics to be covered include safely jogging the robot setting up welding equipment robotic welding teach pendent robotic welding parameters motion types programming examples saving and backing up robot programs and controller files. Students will develop robotic welding programs using robot controllers application software and hardware.

Prerequisite: WLD 103 MIG Welding or WLD 106 Fundamentals of Welding. Corequisite: WLD 103 or WLD 106 can be taken concurrently with WLD 140
Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s)
Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec/2 lab/week