2016-2017 Catalog

Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (WGTSD)

Award: Career certificate

Pathway to associate degree: Welding Technology (WEAAS)

Program location: South Omaha Campus

This career certificate is for students wishing to concentrate their studies on gas tungsten arc welding (TIG) processes, procedures, and techniques. 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 gas tungsten arc welding equipment; produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel, stainless steel, and aluminum in all positions with gas tungsten arc welding; and produce sound fillet and groove welds using pulsed gas tungsten arc welding.

For more information about educational cost, median loan debt, and other important information related to this program, please visit our website at mccneb.edu/Academics/Programs-of-Study/Industrial-Technology/Welding-Technology.aspx.

Requirements for Gas Tungsten Arc Welding career certificate (27.0 credit hrs.)

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) - Steel I

3.0

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

3.0

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

3.0

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

3.0

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

3.0

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

3.0