- Award:
- Specialist Diploma
- Program location:
- South Omaha Campus
The Pipe Welding Specialist Diploma is designed for students wishing to concentrate their studies on SMAW (Stick)- and GTAW (TIG)-based processes, procedures, and techniques as they are applied to pipe welding. Students learn to read prints and interpret welding symbols; safely and skillfully use oxyfuel, plasma, and air carbon arc cutting processes; safely and skillfully use shielded-metal arc welding (stick) equipment; safely and skillfully use gas tungsten arc welding (TIG) equipment; produce sound fillet and groove welds in steel plate and pipe using E6010 and E7018 electrodes and steel plate using GTAW; and produce sound groove welds in pipe using GTAW.
Requirements for Pipe-Welding Diploma - 30.0 Credit Hrs.
| Courses | Credit Hrs. |
|---|---|
| WELD 1000 Print Reading for Welders | 3.0 |
| WELD 1100 Industrial Cutting Processes | 3.0 |
| WELD 1300 Oxy-Acetylene Welding | 3.0 |
| WELD 1400 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel I | 3.0 |
| WELD 1500 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Flat | 3.0 |
| WELD 1510 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Vertical | 3.0 |
| WELD 2400 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG) - Steel II | 3.0 |
| WELD 2510 SMAW (Stick) - Overhead | 3.0 |
| WELD 2520 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe I | 3.0 |
| WELD 2530 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick) - Pipe II | 3.0 |