NWTC College Program Guide 2024-2025 2024 - 2025 | Page 344

Course Descriptions
College 101 10890101 Students gain skills that lead to success in college and employment. This course encourages students to develop a growth mindset and make wise choices. Students should take this course in their first semester.( Pre-requisite: None.) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Vocational Math A 31804304 This course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and skills to apply the concepts of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, measurement, proportions, and percent to their career. No prerequisites needed. Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
Metal Fabrication I 31457337 Provide the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of basic line and angle construction, basic measuring techniques, basic squaring techniques, along with basic part layout for fabrication.( Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program or Metal Fabrication technical diploma; Corequisite: 31-457-338, Metal Fabrication II; 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Metal Fabrication II 31457338 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of … general fabrication equipment safety and operation used for sawing, shearing, bending, drilling, punching and CNC cutting.( Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program or Metal Fabrication technical diploma; Corequisite: 31-457-337 Metal Fabrication I) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Gas Metal Arc Welding 1 31442348 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welding in the flat and horizontal positions, fillet, pipe to plate and groove welds on plain carbon steel.( Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Gas Metal Arc Welding 2 31442356 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welds in the vertical and overhead positions, fillet, pipe to plate and groove welds with and without backing on plain carbon steel.( Corequisite: 31-442-348, Gas Metal Arc Welding 1) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Blueprint Reading for Welders1 31421335 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and understanding of orthographic projection, sketching, dimensioning, section and auxiliary views, structural shapes, metric conversation and interpretation of fabrications from prints.( Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program, Metal Fabrication technical diploma or the Intro to MIG Certificate AND Next Gen Rdg score greater / equal to 237; OR ACT Rdg score greater / equal to 15; OR preparatory courses) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Material Cutting Applications 31442301 Visual inspection of weld and cut edges, manual and machine oxy fuel gas cutting, air carbon arc cutting, plasma arc cutting, and mechanical cutting methods. Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Weld Symbols 31421336 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and understanding of welding symbols AWS and ISO, weld joint nomenclature and welding joint geometry.( Prerequisite: Accepted into Welding program, Metal Fabrication technical diploma or the Intro to MIG Certificate) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Gas Metal Arc Welding 3 31442358 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of welds in the flat and horizontal positions on T-Joints( 1F & 2F) and groove welds with backing( 1G & 2G) on plain carbon steel using the spray mode of transfer and on aluminum.( Prerequisite: 31-442-356, Gas Metal Arc Welding 2) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Metal Fabrication III 31457339 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of building projects from advanced blueprints using all fabrication equipment and welding processes.( Prerequisites: 31-457-337, Metal Fabrication I; 31-457-338, Metal Fabrication II) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Vocational Math B 31804305 This course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge and skills to apply the concepts of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to their career.( Pre-requisite: Completion of 31-804-304 Vocational Math A with a " C " or better) Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall Spring
CAD-Intro 10606116 CAD terminology, drawing preliminaries, basic inquiry and setting commands, layer setting and manipulation, basic drawing and display commands, basic edit commands, and plotting, using AutoCAD software. Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring
Blueprint Reading for Welders2 31421337 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop advanced blueprint reading skills to read and interpret moderate to advanced blueprints and shop drawings.( Prerequisites: Accepted into the Welding program or Metal Fabrication program; 31-421-335, Blueprint Reading for Welders1; 31-421-336, Weld Symbols) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding 1 31442359 Course provides the opportunity for the learner to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of GTAW equipment set-up as well as the basic skills needed to make welds on plain carbon steel. Weld quality will be discussed but this course is only used to understand the basics of the GTAW process.( Corequisite: 31-442-301, Material Cutting Applications) Course Typically Offered: Contact an Advisor
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