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2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

WELD 250 - Welding Steel/Stainless Steel GMAW/TIG


Credits: 1-17
LEC hours per week: 5
LAB hours per week: 24
This course provides Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding experience on steel and stainless steel. Topics include welding equipment setup and safety procedures, welding practices and procedures for various applications, and equipment maintenance procedures. Course available on Clarkston campus only.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C or higher in WELD 151  and instructor permission.
Course Outcomes:
  • Apply safe cylinder handling and GMAWTIG equipment practices.
  • Demonstrate proper set up, adjustment, and closing practices for joining and cutting steel/stainless steel.
  • Interpret shop drawings or prints to construct welding objective assemblies.
  • Identify and apply the correct process to assigned welding tasks.
  • Create welding objective assemblies according to specifications.
  • Evaluate final weld assembly according to AWS standards in publication Dl.1.
  • Complete qualification tests.
  • Demonstrate sketching and drawing techniques in multi view and geometric object representations.
  • Interpret drafting prints, working drawings, and specifications.
Course Topics:
  1. Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW).
  2. Tungsten Inert Gas Welding (TIG).
  3. Properties of steel and stainless steel.
  4. Welding equipment setup and safety procedures.
  5. Equipment maintenance procedures.
  6. Types of welding power sources, filler wires, shielding gases and gun types.
  7. Complete GMAW/TIG technical training in welding textbook.
  8. Welding on steel and stainless steel metal in all positions.
  9. Use and care for fuel gas welding and cutting apparatuses.
  10. Shop welding systems, grinders, vices, clamps, drills, files, air driven tools, punches, shears, and saws.
  11. Measuring tools and methods.
  12. Fabrication systems and material types.
  13. Print reading and weld symbol principles.