Salt Lake Community College

Course Description: Students are provided with a general introduction to the art, science, & technology of welding. General industrial safety practices are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.
Number of instructional contact hours: 10
Number of lecture hours per week: 10
Number of lab hours per week: 0

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency activities:

    Recognize at least 4 careers associated with welding.
    Recognize at least 4 welding processes.
    Use words and terms associated with welding in verbal discussion and written communications.    (Welding vocabulary)
    Demonstrate an understanding of the welding lab rules and policies.
    Acknowledge the instructors responsibilities to enforce welding lab rules and policies.
    Demonstrate an understanding of welding shop safety.
    Perform safely during lab practice.

Course Description: Learn practical welding and cutting skills using the oxy-acetylene welding process on carbon steel. Safe practices and theory of OAW are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.; Completion of KWLD 0115, Introduction to Welding Lab and Safety.
Number of instructional contact hours: 100
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 16

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency with the OAW process in the following activities:

    Safe shop and process practices
     Equipment set-up and proper flame adjustment
     Fusion welding skills on outside corner joints, lap joints and butt joints in all appropriate welding positions
     Braze welding skills on outside corner joints, lap joints and butt joints in all appropriate welding positions
     Flame cutting, manual and machine
     Weld quality inspection

Text: Welding Fundamentals and Procedures, Jerry Galyen, Garry Sear, Charles A. Tuttle; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-950098-7

·        Safety Glasses
·        Welding Gloves
·        Welding Shield or Goggles with #5 shade lens
·        Striker
·        Pliers
·        Tip Cleaners
·        Soap stone with holder
·        Protective clothing including welding cap

KWLD 0135 Shielded-Metal Arc (SMAW)

Course Description: Learn practical welding skills using the SMAW welding process on carbon steel. Safe practices and theory of SMAW are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.; Completion of KWLD 0125, Oxy-acetylene Welding.
Number of instructional contact hours: 175
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 16

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency with the SMAW process in the following activities:

            Safe shop and process practices
            Equipment set-up and proper power source adjustment
            Welding skills on inside/outside corner joints, lap joints and butt joints in all appropriate welding positions
            Ability to following welding procedure specifications
            Practical weld tests and welder performance qualification.
            Arc-air cutting & gouging
            Electrode selection
            Weld quality inspection

Text: Welding Fundamentals and Procedures, Jerry Galyen, Garry Sear, Charles A. Tuttle; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-950098-7

Supplies:

    ·        Safety Glasses
    ·        Welding Gloves
    ·        Welding Shield with #10 shade lens
    ·        Pliers
    ·        Soap stone with holder
    ·        Protective clothing including welding cap

Course Description: Learn practical welding skills using the GMAW welding process on carbon steel and aluminum. Short circuiting and spray transfers. Safe practices and theory of GMAW are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.; Completion of KWLD 0135, Shielded Metal Arc Welding.
Number of instructional contact hours: 160
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 16

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency with the GMAW process in the following activities:

            Safe shop and process practices
            Equipment set-up and proper power source adjustment
            Welding skills on inside/outside corner joints, lap joints and butt joints in all appropriate welding positions
            Ability to following welding procedure specifications
            Practical weld tests and welder performance qualification
            Weld quality inspection

Text: Welding Fundamentals and Procedures, Jerry Galyen, Garry Sear, Charles A. Tuttle; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-950098-7

·        Safety Glasses
·        Welding Gloves
·        Welding Shield with #10 shade lens
·        Pliers
·        Soap stone with holder
·        Protective clothing including welding cap

Course Description: Basic study of blueprint reading and drawing, welding symbols (AWS & SI), and NDT symbols.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center Entry
Number of instructional contact hours: 100
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 0

Course Objectives: At the completion of this course, students shall be able to:

Identify the basic lines used on blueprints
Interpret the meaning of basic lines used on blueprints
Identify the difference between pictorial and projection drawings
Identify the different views used on orthographic projection drawings
Demonstrate basic sketching techniques
Define what a "note" is on a blueprint
Define what a "specification" is on a blueprint
Demonstrate an understanding of dimensioning on a blueprint
Interpret information given in a "Bill of Materials" on a blueprint
Identify common structural shapes portrayed on blueprints
Interpret the meaning of long and short break lines as used on a blueprint
Interpret the meaning of "Auxiliary Views" on a blueprint
Interpret the meaning of "Section Views" on a blueprint
Interpret information given in "Detail, Assembly, and Subassembly" blueprints
Interpret AWS welding symbols on a blueprint
Interpret Pipe layout symbols
Interpret "Dual Dimensioning" on a blueprint
Interpret AWS non-destructive testing symbols on a blueprint
Interpret ISO welding symbols used on blueprints
Identify components of a CAD system.

Text:    Blue Print Reading for Welders, 7E, A.E. Bennett, Louis J. Siy, Thomson Delmar Learning, ISBN: 1401867235

Supplies:

            #2 Pencils
            12" Plastic Architectural Scale
            12” Plastic Mechanical Scale
            Standard Erasing Shield
            8.5" x 11" Velum Sketching Pad
            Drafting compass
            Protractor
            30-60-90 triangle
            45-45-90 triangle
            Circle template

Course Description: Learn practical welding skills using the FCAW welding process on carbon steel. Safe practices and theory of FCAW are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center Entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.; Completion of KWLD 0145, Gas Metal Arc Welding.
Number of instructional contact hours: 170
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 16

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency with the FCAW processes (Gas shielded & Self-shielding) in the following activities:

            Safe shop and process practices
            Equipment set-up and proper power source adjustment
            Welding skills on inside/outside corner joints, lap joints and butt joints in all appropriate welding positions
            Ability to following welding procedure specifications
            Practical weld tests and welder performance qualification
            Weld quality inspection

Text: Welding Fundamentals and Procedures, Jerry Galyen, Garry Sear, Charles A. Tuttle; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-950098-7

Supplies:

            Safety Glasses
            Welding Gloves
            Welding Shield with #11 shade lens
            Pliers
            Soap stone with holder
            Protective clothing including welding cap

Course Description: Learn practical welding skills using the GTAW welding process on carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. Safe practices and theory of GTAW are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center Entry; good eyesight, lift 50 lbs.; Completion of KWLD 0170, Flux Cored Arc Welding.
Number of instructional contact hours: 140
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 16

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall have demonstrated to the instructor job entry level competency with the GTAW process on both ferrous & non-ferrous metals in the following activities:

Text: Welding Fundamentals and Procedures, Jerry Galyen, Garry Sear, Charles A. Tuttle; Prentice Hall Publishers, ISBN: 0-13-950098-7

Supplies:

            Safety Glasses
            Welding Gloves
            Welding Shield with #10 shade lens
            Pliers
            Soap stone with holder
            Protective clothing including welding cap

Course Description: Instruction in basic math skills needed by welders. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, metrics, and currency and basic geometry formulas are taught.
Course Prerequisites: Skills Center Entry
Number of instructional contact hours: 100
Number of lecture hours per week: 4
Number of lab hours per week: 0

Course Objective: At the completion of this course, students shall be able to:

Text: Practical Problems in Mathematics for Welders, Fourth Edition, Frank R. Schell, Bill J Matlock; Delmar Publishers, ISBN: 0-8273-6706-6

Supplies:

            Pencils
            Paper
            12” ruler
            Protractor
            Scientific Calculator

Course Description: Students learn job-seeking skills, resume’ writing, and interviewing skills necessary for job placement. (This course is taught by the Skills Center Emmployment Specialist)

Course Prerequisites: Students must be enrolled in the complete welding program.

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