Welding

CTE 1143 - NCCER Core
This course includes basic safety, an introduction to construction math, an introduction to hand and power tools, an introduction to construction drawings, employability skills and communications. Three semester credit hours: Two hours lecture and two hours lab. Approved elective for Industrial Service Programs.

WLT 1115 – Shielded Metal Arc Welding I 
This course is designed to teach students welding techniques using E-6010 electrodes. Five semester credit hours: One hour lecture and eight hours lab.

WLT 1124 – Gas Metal Arc Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in various welding applications with the GMAW welder including short circuiting and pulsed transfer. Four semester credit hours: One hour lecture and six hours lab.
WLT 1135 – Gas Tungsten Arc Welding – This course is designed to give the student experience in GTAW welding applications including aluminum and stainless steel. Five semester credit hours: One hour lecture and eight hours lab.

WLT 1143 – Flux Cored Arc Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in FCAW using cored wire and inert gases. Three semester credit hours: One hour lecture and four hours lab.

WLT 1155 – Pipe Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in basic pipe welding procedures. Five semester credit hours: One hour lecture and eight hours lab.

WLT 1162 – Gas Metal Arc Aluminum Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in Gas Metal Aluminum Welding. Two semester credit hours: One hour lecture and two hours lab.

WLT 1173 – Introduction to Welding and Safety
This course is designed to give the student an introduction to the welding field. Three semester credit hours: Two hours lecture and two hours lab.

WLT 1225 – Shielded Metal Arc Welding II
This course is designed to teach students welding techniques using E-7018 electrodes. Five semester credit hours: One hour lecture and eight hours lab.

WLT 1232 – Blueprint Reading, Welding Symbols, and Metallurgy
This course is designed to give the student experiences in blueprint reading. Two semester credit hours: Two hours lecture.

WLT 1252 – Advanced Pipe Welding
This course is designed to give the student advanced pipe welding techniques using shielded metal arc and gas tungsten arc welding processes. Two semester credit hours: One hour lecture and two hours lab.

WLT 1313 – Cutting Processes
This course is designed to give the student experience in oxyfuel cutting principles and practices, air carbon cutting and gouging, and plasma arc cutting. Three semester credit hours: One hour lecture and four hours lab.

WLT 191(1-3) – Special Problem in Welding and Cutting
A course to provide students with an opportunity to utilize skills and knowledge gained in other Welding and Cutting Technology courses. The instructor and student work closely together to select a topic and establish criteria for completion of the project. One to three credit hours: One to three hours lecture and lab.

WLT 1921 – Supervised Work Experience in Welding and Cutting Technology
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor. A course which is a cooperative program between industry and education designed to integrate the student’s technical studies with industrial experience. Variable credit awarded on the basis of one semester hour per 45 industrial contact hours. One semester credit hour.

WLT 2812 – Welding Metallurgy
This course is designed to give the student experience in the concept of metallurgy and how metals react to internal and external strains and temperature changes. Two semester credit hours: One to three hours lecture and lab.

WLT 2913 – Welding Code
This course is designed to give the student experience in the various welding codes and the experience in interpretation of these codes. Three semester credit hours: One to three hours lecture and lab.