Gas Metal Arc Welding (WGMSD)
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 wire-based 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 metal arc and flux-cored arc welding equipment; produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel, stainless steel, and aluminum in all positions with gas metal arc welding using short-circuit, spray, and pulsed spray modes of metal transfer; and produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel using flux-cored arc welding.
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Requirements for Gas Metal Arc Welding career certificate (27.0 credit hrs.)
| WELD 1000 | Print Reading for Welders | 3.0 |
| WELD 1100 | Industrial Cutting Processes | 3.0 |
| WELD 1200 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2200 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel II | 3.0 |
| WELD 2220 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Stainless | 3.0 |
| WELD 2230 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Aluminum | 3.0 |
| WELD 2240 | Flux-Cored Arc Welding I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2241 | Flux-Cored Arc Welding II | 3.0 |
| WELD 2242 | Submerged Arc and Metal-Cored Welding | 3.0 |