Welding Technology AAS
Welding Technology is a participating organization of the American Welding Society’s SENSE (Schools Excelling through National Skill standards Education) Program. This program is designed to provide training in a sequential manner for various welding processes, starting with simple tasks and progressing through more complex assignments. Those processes include: shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, flux cored arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, oxy-acetylene cutting, brazing and welding, and the use of plasma arc cutting equipment. Students receive practical and theoretical training in the weldability of metals and alloys, blueprint reading, mathematics, and metallurgy.
Students are trained to international standards using modern equipment. All skills and lab assignments are performance-based using standards assigned by the prevailing industrial welding codes. Safety, care, use, and adjustment of the welding lab equipment is stressed in each of the classes. Included in each 27 hour week is study in welding theory and related practical science, and applying this knowledge in the laboratory.
All graduates are given the opportunity to take the unlimited thickness, all position, welder certification test at no cost to them.
Admission requirements
All welding students must be core math ready and need to complete a program application.
Admission Checklist
- Complete general LC State admission requirements
- Submit college placement test scores
- Schedule a shop consultation with program faculty
The welding program has limited space, and a waitlist is utilized if classes are full. Duration on the waitlist is one semester. If students do not move into program classes after one semester on the waitlist, they need to reschedule their shop consultation.
- ALEKS score of 30 or higher in Math and Writing Placement Exam score of 2 or higher or equivalent college placement exams (SAT, ACT, etc.)
Upon completion of the Welding Technology program, the student will have basic skills to:
- Understand and operate basic welding power sources used in industry and the welding and cutting processes associated with them
- Identify and interpret welding symbols, structural shapes, and various ferrous and non-ferrous metal metallurgical properties for fabrication and the blueprints associated with them.
- Demonstrate welding competency by performing and passing weld qualification testing.
- Demonstrate and perform safety requirements for welding and knowledge of how to operate welding shop equipment and tools safely.
- Interpret welding code requirements and inspect welds to critique for quality.
General Education Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Written Communication | ||
| ENGL-101 | WRITING AND RHETORIC I | 3.00 |
| Oral Communication | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.00 | |
| FUNDAMENTALS OF ORAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION | ||
| PUBLIC SPEAKING | ||
| Mathematical Ways of Knowing | ||
| MTHPT-137 | MATH FOR TECHNOLOGY | 4.00 |
| Social & Behavioral Ways of Knowing | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.00 | |
| CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY | ||
| WORLD PREHISTORY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY | ||
| WORLD HISTORY I | ||
| WORLD HISTORY II | ||
| UNITED STATES HISTORY I | ||
| UNITED STATES HISTORY II | ||
| DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| HUMAN RELATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| AMERICAN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT | ||
| INTERNATIONAL POLITICS | ||
| COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | ||
| SOCIAL PROBLEMS | ||
| DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| HUMAN RELATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| Additional General Education Core | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3.00-5.00 | |
| RACE AND ETHNICITY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ART | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS | ||
| CONCEPTS OF BIOLOGY | ||
| PLANTS AND PEOPLE | ||
| BIOLOGY IN FILM | ||
| HUMAN BIOLOGY | ||
| HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY I | ||
| CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRY | ||
| GENERAL, ORGANIC AND BIOCHEMISTRY | ||
| PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY I | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE | ||
| INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE | ||
| LITERATURE AND IDEAS | ||
| WORLD CLASSICS | ||
| INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE | ||
| NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| MYTHOLOGIES | ||
| NATIVE AMERICAN WRITTEN LITERATURE | ||
| SEMICONDUCTORS, SCIENCE, AND SOCIETY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE | ||
| PHYSICAL GEOLOGY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SYSTEMS | ||
| GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS | ||
| THE ART AND HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS | ||
| WATER AND ENERGY | ||
| INTEGRATED SCIENCE II | ||
| ETHICS AND IDENTITY | ||
| HELLS CANYON INSTITUTE | ||
| SOCIAL-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF SPORTS | ||
| SURVEY OF MUSIC | ||
| MUSIC IN AMERICA | ||
| WORLD MUSIC | ||
| HISTORY OF MUSICAL THEATER | ||
| HISTORY OF JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC STYLES | ||
| NEZ PERCE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE | ||
| NEZ PERCE LANGUAGE AND HISTORY | ||
| INTEGRATED SCIENCE I | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL SCIENCES | ||
| NATURAL SCIENCE FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATOR | ||
| GENERAL PHYSICS I | ||
or PHYS-112 | GENERAL PHYSICS II | |
| PHYS SCIENCES FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATORS | ||
| DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY | ||
| PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS I | ||
| ELEMENTARY SPANISH I | ||
| ELEMENTARY SPANISH II | ||
| INTERMEDIATE SPANISH I | ||
| INTERMEDIATE SPANISH II | ||
| DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| HUMAN RELATIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS | ||
| SURVEY OF THE THEATER | ||
| Total Credits | 16.00-18.00 | |
Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Core | ||
| WLDTC-150 | WELDING POWER SOURCES | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-151 | WELDING CODES FOR CERTIFICATIONS | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-152 | QUALITY CONTROL FOR WELDING INSPECTION | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-155 | BASIC WELDING PROCESSES LAB (or WLDTC-155A and WLDTC-155B) | 7.00 |
| WLDTC-161 | WELDING PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-162 | METALLURGY | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-165 | ADVANCED WELDING PROCESSES | 7.00 |
| WLDTC-250 | DRAFTING AND PIPEFITTING | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-251 | BLUEPRINT READING | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-252 | HEAT TREATMENT | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-254 | PIPE WELDING:SMAW LAB | 7.00 |
| WLDTC-261 | BENCHWORK FOR WELDERS | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-262 | DISTORTION CONTROL | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-264 | PIPE WELDING GTAW LAB | 7.00 |
| Electives | ||
| Select 12 credits from WLDTC | 12.00 | |
| Total Credits | 60.00 | |
Sequential Plan of Study
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | |
| MTHPT-137 | MATH FOR TECHNOLOGY | 4.00 |
| WLDTC-150 | WELDING POWER SOURCES | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-155 or WLDTC-155A and WLDTC-155B |
BASIC WELDING PROCESSES LAB or SMAW PRACTICAL and BASIC OXYACETYLENE AND GMAW |
7.00 |
| WLDTC-261 | BENCHWORK FOR WELDERS | 2.00 |
| Program Requirement | Select WLDTC Elective course | 4.00 |
| Credits | 19.00 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGL-101 | WRITING AND RHETORIC I | 3.00 |
| WLDTC-165 | ADVANCED WELDING PROCESSES | 7.00 |
| WLDTC-251 | BLUEPRINT READING | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-262 | DISTORTION CONTROL | 2.00 |
| Program Requirement | Select WLDTC Elective course | 4.00 |
| Credits | 18.00 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| CORE | Oral Communication | 3.00 |
| WLDTC-161 | WELDING PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-162 | METALLURGY | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-250 | DRAFTING AND PIPEFITTING | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-254 | PIPE WELDING:SMAW LAB | 7.00 |
| Program Requirement | Select WLDTC Elective course | 4.00 |
| Credits | 20.00 | |
| Spring | ||
| WLDTC-252 | HEAT TREATMENT | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-151 | WELDING CODES FOR CERTIFICATIONS | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-152 | QUALITY CONTROL FOR WELDING INSPECTION | 2.00 |
| WLDTC-264 | PIPE WELDING GTAW LAB | 7.00 |
| CORE | Social & Behavioral Ways of Knowing | 3.00 |
| CORE | Additional General Education Course | 3.00 |
| Credits | 19.00 | |
| Total Credits | 76.00 | |