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Pipe Welding (WPWSD)

Award: Career certificate

Program location: South Omaha Campus

This career certificate is for students wishing to concentrate their studies on SMAW (Stick)- and GTAW (TIG)-based processes, procedures, and techniques as they are applied to pipe welding. Students learn to read prints and interpret welding symbols; safely and skillfully use oxy-fuel, plasma, and air carbon arc cutting processes; safely and skillfully use shielded metal arc welding (stick) equipment; safely and skillfully use gas tungsten arc welding (TIG) equipment; produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel plate and pipe using E6010 and E7018 electrodes and steel plate using GTAW; and produce sound groove welds in pipe using GTAW.

Requirements for Pipe-Welding career certificate (30.0 credit hrs.)

Courses

WELD 1000Print Reading for Welders

3.0

WELD 1100Industrial Cutting Processes

3.0

WELD 1300Oxy-Acetylene Welding

3.0

WELD 1400Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)

3.0

WELD 1500Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)

3.0

WELD 1510Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)

3.0

WELD 2400Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG)

3.0

WELD 2510SMAW (Stick) - Overhead

3.0

WELD 2520Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe I

3.0

WELD 2530Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)

3.0