Shielded Metal Arc Welding (WSMSD)
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 the shielded metal arc welding process, 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 shielded metal arc welding (stick) equipment; and produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel plate and pipe using E6010 and E7018 electrodes.
Requirements for Shielded 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 1300 | Oxy-Acetylene Welding | 3.0 |
| WELD 1500 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Flat | 3.0 |
| WELD 1510 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Vertical | 3.0 |
| WELD 2500 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Horizontal | 3.0 |
| WELD 2510 | SMAW (Stick) - Overhead | 3.0 |
| WELD 2520 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2530 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe II | 3.0 |