Pre-Employment Welding

Locations:	Weyburn
Length of Course:	34 weeks
Tuition:	$3350.00*
Books:	$450.00*
Start Date:	Weyburn - September 8, 2008
Program Prerequisites:	- Grade 10, GED, or Accuplacer Testing

Please note: The Weyburn session of this full time program will run Monday to Friday: 3:00 pm to 9:30 pm

(Information indicated with an * is an approximation and may be changed)

This one year certificate program is designed to provide the student with the fundamental knowledge and skills required for initial fabrication and repair demands within the welding industry. This program can be used toward a Journeyman Certificate.

The students develop fundamental knowledge and skills required for initial fabrication and repair demands within the welding industry. This program can be used for credit toward a Journeyman Certificate.

Students must supply the following equipment:

• pliers and vise grips,
• measuring tape,
• goggles and gloves,
• steel toes boots are optional, but are highly recommended. No running shoes are allowed in the shop area.

 

This course will provide the student with communication skills in study and reading strategies, interpersonal skills relations and job search techniques.

This course covers the proper use and maintenance of the hand tools and the shop equipment used in welding and fabricating shops in industry.

This course emphasizes the study of whole numbers, common fractions, decimal fractions, averages, percents, angular measure, length, area and volume measure, weight measure and bend allowances as applies to the welding trade. Electronic calculators will be utilized.

You will become familiar with the physical and chemical properties of commonly used metals in the welding trade. You will study the effect of the heating and cooling cycle involved in welding operations (with particular attention given to the heat affected zone). You will also review the use of heat to correct distortion and to change the physical properties of metals, and the classification system for identifying metal.

You will develop your ability to read and interpret basic welding and fabricating drawings. The course covers the basic elements of a blueprint, weld symbols, joint types, structural shapes, developing a bill of material and using the imperial and metric systems of measurement.

Constructing various welding projects will help you develop welding and steel fabricating skills.

Your studies will focus on general safety as it applies to the welding trade. You will learn how to use fire fighting equipment, organize a shop for safe welding operation and safely transport and store welding supplies. You will also learn basic rigging techniques. You will study and receive certification in First Aid and CPR as well as WHMIS and be introduced to the articles of Occupational Health and Safety Act that apply to the trade.

You will learn how to safely operate and maintain oxy-acetylene equipment as used in the welding trade. The course covers the types of flames and their chemistry, the selection of filler metal and a comparison of fusion and braze welding. You will also develop practical skills in fusion welding of 14 gauge steel in the flat and vertical positions, braze welding on mild steel in the flat position and braze welding on cast iron in the vertical position.

You will acquire skill in using freehand and guided methods for cutting mild steel. The freehand method is used to make straight cuts in 14 gauge and straight cuts, bevel cuts and pierce holes in the plate. The guided method is used to do straight cuts, bevel cuts, and cut circles from plate. You will also be introduced to plasma arc cutting.

You will be introduced to the gas metal arc welding process that is most commonly called MIG welding. The course content includes setting and adjusting welding equipment for MIG welding of steel and aluminum, and selecting the mode of metal transfer, the size and type of filler wire and the type of shielding gas to be used. You will learn how to make MIG fillet welds in the flat, vertical and horizontal positions, and full strength groove welds in the flat and vertical positions. You will also become familiar with flux core welding.

You will be introduced to the gas tungsten arc welding process that is most commonly referred to as TIG welding. You will learn how to set-up and adjust TIG welding equipment required for welding mild steel and aluminum. The course covers the types of electrodes, shielding gases and electrical current types used in TIG welding. You will develop practical skills in welding mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum in the flat position.

You will be introduced to the shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process. The course content included types of power sources, electrical characteristics of welding circuits, and mild steel and low alloy electrodes. Practical training will develop your skill in welding beads in the flat, vertical and horizontal positions and producing filet welds in the horizontal position.

You will continue developing skill in using the SMAW process. The course content includes vertical and overhead fillets, arc air gouging and other common applications of the SMAW process.

This course will help you develop skill in the SMAW process for welding in the flat, vertical and horizontal positions. You will practice full strength groove welds in the flat, vertical and horizontal positions. The groove weld is subjected to bend testing and is evaluated against a standard similar to that used in journey or ASME code qualification tests.