Programs - Applied Welding Technologies - 1170 Hour Program - 8 Credits

The Welding program at Locklin Tech is designed to prepare you for employment as welders and flame cutters, tack welders, welder assemblers, arc cutters, combination welders and production line welders. Course content includes safe and efficient work practices; blueprints and shop drawings; and assembling parts according to diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications. A combination of theory and “hands-on” exercises will enable you to master jobs in the welding field including stick, mig, tig, pipe, oxyacetylene and basic shop skills. Techniques to improve communication and leadership skills, as well as involvement in SkillsUSA, offer a well rounded training opportunity.

Upon completion of this program you will be able to:

• Apply basic shop skills
• Apply oxyfuel gas cutting principles and practices
• Apply shielded metal arc welding skills
• Apply visual examination skills
• Apply drawing and welding symbol interpretation skill
• Identify metals
• Demonstrate arc cutting principles and practices
• Apply gas metal arc welding skills
• Apply flux cored arc welding skills
• Apply gas tungsten arc welding skills
• Fabricate and weld pipe joints
• Perform fabrication using welding skills

Certifications

• The Contren Learning Series curriculum used in this program prepares students for valuable industry certification from the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). Training accomplishments are documented through NCCER’s national registry.

Employment Opportunities
Two out of three jobs involve the manufacture of durable goods including boilers, bulldozers, trucks, ships and consumer appliances. Most of the remaining jobs are in metal products repair or in construction of ships, bridges, commercial buildings, and pipelines.

Courses
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; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes 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, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster.

The content includes but is not limited to  planning, management, finance, technical and product skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and health, safety, and environmental issues.

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Course Descriptions

Student Organization
Skills U.S.A. Student Organization

Resources
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