Welding Technology – 50570
1050 clock hours
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the manufacturing career cluster. The program will also provide technical skills proficiency, including competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in applied welding positions.
Degree Requirements
Required program:
| PMT 0108 | Introduction to Welding (N) | 150 hours |
| PMT 0121 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding Principles (N) | 150 hours |
| PMT 0101 | Welding Symbols & Blueprints (N) | 90 hours |
| PMT 0104 | Fundamentals of Metallurgy (N) | 60 hours |
| PMT 0122L | Shielded Metal Arc Welding -Advanced (N) | 120 hours |
| PMT 0131 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Principles (N) | 140 hours |
| PMT 0138L | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Advanced (N) | 120 hours |
| PMT 0134 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (N) | 120 hours |
| PMT 0164 | Welding Fabrication Fundamentals (N) | 70 hours |
| PMT 0168 | Welding Certification Prep (N) | 30 hours |
Electives:
| PMT 0105 | Intro to Blueprint Reading (N) | 15 hours |
| PMT 0930 | Special Topics in Welding (N) | 30-150 hours |