Students will develop critical thinking, reading and writing skills in the context of personal, professional, digital and academic environments, with emphasis on analysis. This course will enable students to examine, develop and employ the writing process while focusing on audience, invention, rhetorical context, language, style, purpose, written communication strategies and digital demands.
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None
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None
Presents an overview of the welding profession with a focus on basic blueprint reading, basic electrical principles, safety procedures, equipment, and applied mathematics used in welding applications. Provides students with the ability to identify various testing techniques for spotting weld defects, explains destructive testing, nondestructive testing, explains the positions needed for various pipe cutting and welding situations. 45 hours of lecture.
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None
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None
Provides students with the opportunity to safely use equipment to perform Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting (OAW) (OFC-A), and Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC) to cut metal and produce quality welds. Identify various joint fit-ups used in welding pipe and demonstrate various uses of pipe welding/cutting with PAC, OFC-A, with 1G, 2G, 5G, 6G positions. 15 hours of lecture and 90 hours of lab are required.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
WELD 1010, WELD 1110L
Provides students with the opportunity to safely use equipment to perform Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW/MIG), and Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) to produce quality welds. 15 hours of lecture and 90 hours of lab are required.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
WELD 1160L
Provides students with the opportunity to safely use equipment to perform Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) to produce quality welds. 15 hours of lecture and 90 hours of lab are required.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
WELD 1010, WELD 1210L
Provides students with the opportunity to safely use equipment to perform Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) to produce quality welds. Demonstrate various uses of structural steel and pipe welding in 1G, 2G, 5G, and 6G positions. 15 hours of lecture and 90 hours of lab are required.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
WELD 1010, WELD 1260L
Provides students with a better understanding of the effects of alloying elements on the welding process. Students will gain knowledge of the physical and chemical behavior of metal under various welding conditions. Weld testing methods will be studied as well as specialty welding processes that are used within the welding industry today. Demonstrate lab techniques for mechanical properties understanding with various destructive testing with material science harness testing styles. 30 hours of lecture and 15 hours of lab are required.
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None
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None
Provides, within the first 15 hours of the 30-hour lab, students the opportunity to pass a Welder Qualification test in accordance to the AWS standards for SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) D1.1 structural welding code with 3/8 plate mild steel in a 3-G 22.5-degree beveled material to conformed criteria to a bend test pass or fail outcome. The second 15 hours of the 30-hour lab will be to comply to the same parameters but with the GMAW (Gas metal Arc Welding) process. 30 hours of lab are required.
Prerequisite(s):
None
Corequisite(s):
WELD 1010
