Welding Technology, AAS

The Associate in Applied Sciences in Welding Technology degree trains students according to American Welding Society (AWS) standards. To demonstrate welding proficiencies, students must pass lecture and lab assignments, related instruction courses, and pass certification tests prior to completion. Welding certifications include plate and pipe welding using Shielded Metal Arc, Gas Metal Arc, Flux Cored Arc and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding processes. To meet degree requirements, welding students must become certified to either WABO, or AWS D1.1 process standards. Upon completion students will be prepared to enter the welding, manufacturing and/or fabrication industry.

Degree Outcomes:

• Identify major requirements to safely operate equipment to produce cuts, gouges, grinds and weldments.
• Demonstrate set-up, operation and shut down operations using welding and cutting equipment.
• Demonstrate welding, brazing and cutting techniques using fuel gas and electric arc processes.
• Demonstrate print reading knowledge and experience and perform weldment testing using industry accepted standards and practices.
• Demonstrate manual welding experience using stainless steel and aluminum alloys.
• Demonstrate welding mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum alloys using semi-automatic equipment/procedures.
• Perform welding visual inspection procedure to determine compliance with appropriate codes and standards.

Transferability: The AAS Degree is designed for students planning to enter their chosen career upon graduation. Often only selected credits are considered transferable to public or private baccalaureate institutions.