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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.)

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 1500Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Flat

3.0

WELD 1510Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Vertical

3.0

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

3.0

WELD 2510SMAW (Stick) - Overhead

3.0

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

3.0

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

3.0