Welding Technology – Structural (WELSO)
Award: Certificate of achievement
Pathway to associate degree: Welding Technology (WEAAS)
Program location: South Omaha Campus
This certificate of achievement provides students with basic welding skills needed to do structural welding either in construction (e.g., as an ironworker) or as a structural steel fabricator. Students completing the program are exposed to print reading with special focus on interpreting welding symbols as well as skill training in oxy-fuel cutting, shielded metal arc welding (stick), gas metal arc welding (MIG), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), and gas tungsten arc welding (TIG).
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Graduation Requirements
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General education
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13.5
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Major requirements
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21.0
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Option and elective requirements
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21.0
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Total credit hours required
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55.5
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General education requirements (13.5 credit hrs.)
Communications
| | English level I | 4.5 credits |
Humanities/social sciences
| | Humanities/social sciences | 4.5 credits |
Quantitative/numeracy skills
| | Mathematics or Financial Literacy | 4.5 credits |
Major requirements for Welding Technology (21.0 credit hrs.)
| WELD 1000 | Print Reading for Welders | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1100 | Industrial Cutting Processes | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1200 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1300 | Oxy-Acetylene Welding | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1400 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1500 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Flat | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2200 | Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel II | 3.0 credits |
Option requirements for Welding Technology – Structural (15.0 credit hrs.)
| WELD 1510 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Vertical | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2240 | Flux-Cored Arc Welding I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2400 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel II | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2500 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Horizontal | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2510 | SMAW (Stick) - Overhead | 3.0 credits |
Electives for Welding Technology – Structural (6.0 credit hrs.)
Select 6.0 credits from the following:
| WELD 1410 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Stainless I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 1420 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Aluminum I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2241 | Flux-Cored Arc Welding II | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2242 | Submerged Arc and Metal-Cored Welding | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2410 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Stainless II | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2420 | Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Aluminum II | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2520 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe I | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2530 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe II | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2540 | Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe III | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2810 | Welder Pre-Qualification | 3.0 credits |
| WELD 2820 | Welder Qualification (Certification) | 1.0 credit |