WEL 174 - Fabrication 1

Credit(s): 3
Lecture/Lab Contact Hours: 1, 4

This is a course designed to prepare students for employment by allowing them to practice skills already learned. Throughout this course students will be given welding blueprints and fabricate the parts to print. Students will perform structure welds with SMAW and GMAW process. Students will be tested on their skills and abilities to fabricate a part within 1/16th tolerance and laying a weld bead with no discontinuities. Students will participate in a required fabrication job shadow experience in local industry during this course.
Applicable toward graduation at Sandburg where program structure permits:
Degree or Certificate: AAS, AGS, and Certificates where applicable. (1.2)

Offered: Spring or Fall
General Education: Not Applicable