2015-2016 Catalog

Welding Technology – Structural (WELSO)

Award: Certificate of achievement

Pathway to associate degree: Welding Technology (WEAAS)

Program location: South Omaha Campus

This certificate of achievement provides students with basic welding skills needed to do structural welding either in construction (e.g., as an ironworker) or as a structural steel fabricator. Students completing the program are exposed to print reading with special focus on interpreting welding symbols as well as skill training in oxy-fuel cutting, shielded metal arc welding (stick), gas metal arc welding (MIG), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), and gas tungsten arc welding (TIG).

Graduation Requirements

General education

13.5

Major requirements

21.0

Option and elective requirements

21.0

Total credit hours required

55.5

General education requirements (13.5 credit hrs.)

Communications

English level I

4.5

Humanities/social sciences

Humanities/social sciences

4.5

Quantitative/numeracy skills

Mathematics or Financial Literacy

4.5

Major requirements for Welding Technology (21.0 credit hrs.)

WELD 1000Print Reading for Welders

3.0

WELD 1100Industrial Cutting Processes

3.0

WELD 1200Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel I

3.0

WELD 1300Oxy-Acetylene Welding

3.0

WELD 1400Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel I

3.0

WELD 1500Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Flat

3.0

WELD 2200Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel II

3.0

Option requirements for Welding Technology – Structural (15.0 credit hrs.)

WELD 1510Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Vertical

3.0

WELD 2240Flux-Cored Arc Welding I

3.0

WELD 2400Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel II

3.0

WELD 2500Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Horizontal

3.0

WELD 2510SMAW (Stick) - Overhead

3.0

Electives for Welding Technology – Structural (6.0 credit hrs.)

Select 6.0 credits from the following:

WELD 1410Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Stainless I

3.0

WELD 1420Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Aluminum I

3.0

WELD 2241Flux-Cored Arc Welding II

3.0

WELD 2242Submerged Arc and Metal-Cored Welding

3.0

WELD 2410Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Stainless II

3.0

WELD 2420Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Aluminum II

3.0

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

3.0

WELD 2530Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe II

3.0

WELD 2540Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe III

3.0

WELD 2810Welder Pre-Qualification

3.0

WELD 2820Welder Qualification (Certification)

1.0