Academic year: 2024-2025
Welding- Technical Diploma
Program Code: 314421
As a Welding graduate, you can build and repair metal components using major welding processes used by industry. You have knowledge of blueprints, metallurgy and layout, and can weld to AWS and ASME codes. Typical careers include maintenance welders, qualified welders, structural welders, welder / fabricators and pipe welders. Other career opportunities include construction trades welder, ironworker trades welder, millwright, sheet metal trades welder, and pipe trades welder.
Delivery
Day Evening Full-time
Explore Locations
This program is offered at:
Green Bay Marinette
Program Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition: $ 6,326, Books: $ 415, Supplies: $ 535 Total Approximate Costs $ 7,276 See costs of tuition, books, and supplies.
This program is partially eligible for financial aid.
Estimates based on in-state residency. Please visit the following URL to learn more about tutition and fees for this program. https:// www. nwtc. edu / admissions-and-aid / paying-for-college / tuition-and-fees? ProgramCode = 314421
Requirements for Program Entry
Apply at www. nwtc. edu / apply. Submit the following to transcripts @ nwtc. edu: High school transcript( or GED / HSED transcript) College transcript If your cumulative GPA is below 2.6, complete or submit a placement evaluation.
Tip! Our admission advisors will assist you through every step. Have questions? Connect with NWTC Admissions at start @ nwtc. edu or 920-498-5444.
Curriculum
Students following the study plan below will complete the Welding technical diploma in the number of semesters shown.
First Semester 8 Week 1 10890101- College 101 1 31804304- Vocational Math A 1 31442301- Material Cutting Applications 1 31421335- Blueprint Reading for Welders1 1 31442342- Shielded Metal Arc Welding 1 1 31442366- Shielded Metal Arc Welding-Adv 3 31421336- Weld Symbols 1
8 Week 2 31457337- Metal Fabrication I 1 31457338- Metal Fabrication II 1 31442348- Gas Metal Arc Welding 1 1 31442367- Gas Metal Arc Welding-Adv 4 31804305- Vocational Math B 1
Semester Total 17
Second Semester 8 Week 1 31421337- Blueprint Reading for Welders2 2 31442359- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding 1 1 31442368- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding-Adv 4
8 Week 2 31442329- Flux Cored Arc Welding 1 1 31442369- Flux Cored Arc Welding-Adv 3 31457339- Metal Fabrication III 2 10422100- Metallurgy 2
Semester Total 15
Total Credits 32
Curriculum Note: Students must earn a " C " or better in 10- 804-301, Vocational Math A to enroll in 10-804-302, Vocational Math B.
Program Outcomes
Be successfully employed in the welding industry. Perform procedures using plasma, carbon arc, oxyacetylene processes. Perform procedures using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process( S. M. A. W). Perform procedures using the Gas Metal Arc Welding process( G. M. A. W). Perform procedures using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process( G. T. A. W). Perform procedures using the Flux Core Arc Welding process( F. C. A. W). Perform procedures using the Submerged Arc Welding process( S. A. W). Perform welding procedures using the Metal Core process. Interpret mechanical drawings. Fabricate projects from blueprints and sketches. Perform basic mathematical computations. Identify various ferrous and non-ferrous materials. Communicate with co-workers and supervisors.
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