WLD101 — Industrial MIG Welding 2 Hours
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. ELA Placement: No ELA Requirement Prerequisite: None Semester Hour(s): 2 hour(s) Lecture / Lab Hours: 1 lec, 2 lab/week * WLD102 Shielded Metal Arc Welding 3 Hours 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. ELA Placement: No ELA Requirement Prerequisite: None Semester Hour(s): 3 hour(s) Lecture / Lab Hours: 2 lec, 2 lab/week - OR - * WLD103 MIG Welding 3 Hours 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