Welding Technology

Welding Technology (J400400) • Welding Technology - Advanced (J400410)

Program Overview

This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in the welding industry.

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general em-ployability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster.

The content includes, but is not limited to, planning, management, technical and product skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues, and health, safety, and environmental issues.

Students study

workplace safety and organization
basic manufacturing processes
metals identification
basic interpretation of welding symbols
oxyfuel gas cutting practices
drawings and welding symbols
intermediate oxyfuel gas cutting practices
plasma arc cutting principles
basic and intermediate Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)
Carbon Arc Gouging (GAC) principles
visual examination skills
basic and intermediate Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
basic and intermediate Flux-Core Arc Welding (FCAW)
basic and intermediate Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW)
basic understanding of pipe welding.

Upon successful completion of the program, students are prepared to test to become a Certified Welder through the American Welding Society (AWS).

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Instructional Plan

Supply List

Program Data

88%

Completion Rate

84%

Placement Rate

N/A

Licensure

Program Structure

Program Length: 1050 Hours

OCPs	Course Title	Course #	Clock Hours
A	Welder Assistant 1	PMT0070	150
A	Welder Assistant 2	PMT0071	150
B	Welder, SMAW 1	PMT0072	150
B	Welder, SMAW 2	PMT0073	150
C	Welder	PMT0074	450

Program Information

Tuition*	Books/ Supplies	Basic Skills Level Computations	Basic Skills Level Communications	2023-24 Completion	2023-24 Placement
$4200.00	$750	9	9	88%	74%
*based on Florida resident tuition rate

Program Schedule

Full Time	Part Time	Part Time	Freq
8:00AM - 1:30PM	8:00AM - 10:30AM	11:00AM - 1:30PM	MTWRF
2:15PM - 9:00PM	2:15PM - 5:15PM	6:00PM - 9:00PM	MTWR

Industry Salaries

Salary Rate

$25,829-
$61,907

Pensacola
Average

$34,819

State
Average

$38,084

National
Average

$41,384

Program Overview

Welding Technology is a core program. It is recommended that students successfully complete the Welding Technology program or demonstrate mastery of the outcomes in that program prior to enrollment in the Welding Technology - Advanced program.

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills to prepare students for employment in the welding industry.

The content includes, but is not limited to, planning, management, technical and product skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and health, safety, and environmental issues.

Students study

intermediate and advanced Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) B-Class Welder
pipe fitting fabrication techniques
advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) skills
emerging technologies directly related to geographically relevant welding needs of business and industry

Upon successful completion of the program, students are prepared to take industry certification exams to become a Certified Welder through the American Welding Society (AWS).