WEL 103 Shielded Metal Arc Welding II

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of advanced arc welding fundamentals, welding safety, arc welding machines, electrode classifications and electrode selection. Students learn skills that are necessary to make high quality shielded metal arc welds in the vertical and overhead positions utilizing single and multiple-pass fillet and groove welds. Students are introduced to plasma arc cutting process. 12 (2 lecture hours and 3 laboratory hours) Note: In addition to tuition, this course requires an additional variable tuition rate.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

WEL 101 or equivalent skills