Comprehensive Industrial Welding

Course Description

Comprehensive Industrial Welding is for the student who is looking to enter the welding and metal fabrication industry.

This course provides 760 clock hours of employer-model, real-world welding, and fabrication training provided by instructors with diverse industry experience.

Students spend 80% of their training in our welding lab.  The classroom experience is focused on learning welding fundamentals and building skills to be successful members of the workforce.  Our curriculum includes:

  • Welding technology and blueprint reading
  • Advanced Fabrication taught by industry experts
  • Oxyacetylene cutting
  • Welder mathematics
  • Welding automation- Collaborative Welding Robot (Red-D-Arc- BotX)
  • Welding and Cutting Bug-O GOFER-IV operations
  • Submerged Arc Welding (SAW)
  • Introduction to Milling operations
  • Manual & CNC plasma cutting operations – Lincoln Electric Torchmate 4400
  • Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)- steel
  • Gas metal arc welding (GMAW) – steel and aluminum
  • Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) – steel
  • Gas Tungsten arc welding – steel, aluminum, and stainless steel
  • Introduction to pipe welding

During the course, students complete fabrication projects, allowing them to put their skills to practical use.  Students will have opportunities to earn numerous welder qualifications in all welding processes using various metals including carbon steel, aluminum, and stainless steel.

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Course Schedule

COHORT 23

January 8 – May 17, 2024

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

COHORT 24

August 5 – December 13, 2024

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

COHORT 25

January 6 – May 16, 2025

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

COHORT 26

August 4 – December 12, 2025

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

COHORT 27

January 5 – May 15, 2026

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

COHORT 28

August 3 – December 11, 2026

8 AM-4 PM Monday – Friday

Program Costs

$15,000

Tuition includes training, welder qualification testing credentials, two pairs of welding gloves, a welding jacket, eye and hearing protection. Textbooks are provided. Students must provide auto-darkening welding helmets and steel-toed leather boots.

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