- Award:
- Specialist Diploma
- Program location:
- South Omaha Campus
This diploma is for students wishing to concentrate their studies on wire-based processes, procedures, and techniques. Students learn to read prints and interpret welding symbols; safely and skillfully use oxy-fuel, plasma, and air carbon arc cutting processes; safely and skillfully use gas metal arc and flux-cored arc welding equipment; produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel, stainless steel, and aluminum in all positions with gas metal arc welding using short-circuit, spray, and pulsed spray modes of metal transfer; and produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel using flux-cored arc welding.
Requirements for Gas Metal Arc Welding diploma - 27.0 credit hrs.
| Courses | Credit Hrs. |
|---|---|
| WELD 1000 Print Reading for Welders | 3.0 |
| WELD 1100 Industrial Cutting Processes | 3.0 |
| WELD 1200 Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2200 Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Steel II | 3.0 |
| WELD 2220 Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Stainless | 3.0 |
| WELD 2230 Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG) - Aluminum | 3.0 |
| WELD 2240 Flux-Cored Arc Welding I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2241 Flux-Cored Arc Welding II | 3.0 |
| WELD 2242 Submerged Arc and Metal-Cored Welding | 3.0 |