Welding (WELD) Courses
WELD 105 Introduction to Metal Sculpture
- Units:1.5
- Hours:18 hours LEC; 27 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers metal sculpture techniques, design principles, and materials used for sculpture for functional and nonfunctional art forms, on ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Techniques on the major welding processes such as Shielded Metal Arc, Gas Metal Arc, Gas Tungsten Arc, and Oxy-Acetylene are an integral part of the course, as well as related safety issues.
WELD 107 Welding Equipment Maintenance
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the basics of welding equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. Electrical and electronically controlled circuits are discussed and tested. Overall theory of operation and safety are presented, as well as maintenance scheduling and the use of electronic test equipment and other measuring devices. Field trips may be required.
WELD 115 Code Welding
- Units:2
- Hours:18 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a "C" grade or better, or a minimum of one year of welding experience.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides individualized training for welder performance qualification. Code and test requirements are presented. Welders select the code, metal, process, and positions to be used. Preparation for competing in the SkillsUSA regional, state, and national competition is also covered. This course may be taken up to four times for credit with different competitions. A field trip and participation at the site of the SkillsUSA regional competition are required.
WELD 117 Ultrasonic Testing Level One
- Units:3
- Hours:45 hours LEC; 27 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; OR ESLW 340.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the theory, technique, application, and evaluation used in the material processing, welding, and inspection industries. Ultrasonic testing as applied to industry practices, such as building construction, aeronautics, shipbuilding, materials fabrication, and others, is covered. Successful completion of this course certifies that the requirements of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) TC-1A for UT level I are met.
WELD 118 Ultrasonic Testing Level Two
- Units:3
- Hours:45 hours LEC; 27 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 117 with a "C" or better, or evidence of completion of UT Level I certification.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; or ESLW 340.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers advanced theory, technique application, and evaluation techniques used in the material processing, welding, and inspection industries. It covers advanced ultrasonic testing as applied to industry practices such as building construction, aeronautics, shipbuilding, and materials fabrication. Successful completion of this course meets the requirements of the American Society of Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) TC1-A for Ultrasonic Testing Level II.
WELD 140 Mathematics for Welding Technicians
- Units:3
- Hours:54 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- General Education:AA/AS Area II(b)
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the application of mathematics principles in technical and trade work. Areas covered are fundamentals of general mathematics, common fractions, decimal fractions, percent, signed numbers, measurements, customary measurement units, metric measurement units, steel rules and vernier calipers, fundamentals of algebra, basic algebraic operations, fundamentals of plane geometry, triangles, polygons, circles, areas, volumes, and fundamentals of trigonometry.
WELD 150 Employability Skills for Technical Careers
- Same As:AT 107 and ET 250
- Units:2
- Hours:36 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:None.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; OR ESLW 340.
- General Education:AA/AS Area III(b)
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides the opportunity to explore technical careers while developing valuable work and life skills. It is an introduction to a variety of technically-related occupations, emphasizing technical careers in the Sacramento area. Activities are designed to enhance personal development, employability skills, and self esteem through leadership, citizenship, and character development. This course is not open to students who have completed AT 107 or ET 250.
WELD 155 Industry Training
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers welding processes, knowledge, and skills specific to employers' needs. Workplace safety and etiquette are included. Metal fabrication skills for specific employment needs and welding certification testing are covered if requested by employers.
WELD 294 Topics in Welding
- Units:0.5 - 5
- Hours:9 hours LEC; 27 - 270 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides an opportunity to study current topics in welding technology that are not included in existing courses.
WELD 295 Independent Studies in Welding
- Units:1 - 3
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
WELD 298 Work Experience in Welding
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Hours:27 - 216 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Enrollment Limitation:Students must be in a paid or unpaid internship, volunteer position, or job related to the welding field with a cooperating site supervisor. Students are advised to consult with the Welding Department faculty to review specific certificate and degree work experience requirements.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGWR 300 or ESLW 340.
- General Education:AA/AS Area III(b)
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides students with opportunities to develop marketable skills in preparation for employment or advancement within the welding field. It is designed for students interested in work experience and/or internships in associate degree level or certificate occupational programs. Course content includes understanding the application of education to the workforce, completion of Title 5 required forms which document the student's progress and hours spent at an approved work site, and developing workplace skills and competencies.
During the semester, the student is required to complete 27 hours of related work experience for 0.5 unit. An additional 27 hours of related work experience is required for each additional 0.5 units. All students are required to attend the first course meeting, a mid-semester meeting, and a final meeting. Additionally, students who have not already successfully completed a Work Experience course will be required to attend weekly orientations while returning participants may meet individually with the instructor as needed. Students may take up to 16 units total across all Work Experience course offerings. This course may be taken up to four times when there are new or expanded learning objectives. Only one Work Experience course may be taken per semester.
WELD 299 Experimental Offering in Welding
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Prerequisite:None.
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This is the experimental courses description.
WELD 300 Introduction to Welding
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course is an introduction to welding processes, including shielded metal arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored gas shield and self shield, gas tungsten arc, oxyacetylene cutting and welding on joint designs, and positions used in industry. Safety in arc welding, oxyacetylene, and plasma cutting is also covered. Field trips may be required.
WELD 302 Introduction to Welding Metallurgy
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Corequisite:WELD 300
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides a general overview of basic metallurgy of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Topics include various steel making processes, different types of furnaces, identifying types of steels, and their mechanical, physical, chemical, and electrical properties. Crystal structures of metals, the iron equilibrium diagram, the periodic table of elements emphasizing those elements associated with steels, metallurgical failure of welds, steel deformation, and heat treatment of steels are also covered. In addition, material hardness using different hardness testing methods, calculation of different steel strengths and stresses, and impact tests using the Charpy and Izod methods are covered. Field trips may be required.
WELD 316 Welding Inspection
- Units:2
- Hours:36 hours LEC
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a grade of "C" or better; OR at least one year of welding experience.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; or ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the welding requirements for any type of welded structure made from commonly used carbon and low-alloy steel construction. Topics include the welding construction industry, rules, regulations, and the principles, requirements, and methods of inspection. It covers weld measurements and discontinuities for evaluation acceptance using a variety of tools. It also emphasizes the lines of communication between the plant managers, welders, welding engineers, design/project engineers, welding foreman/supervisors, shop or field superintendents, and reporting supervisors. This course offers preparation for the Certified Welding Inspector Examination given by the American Welding Society.
WELD 320 Shielded Metal Arc Welding Structural
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a grade of "C" or better; OR at least one year of welding experience.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; or ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers employment training for welding technicians. It emphasizes developing manipulative proficiency in the use of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) in the horizontal (2F-2G), vertical (3F-3G), and overhead (4F-4G) positions on steel. It also covers filler metal classifications, welding power supplies, and welding safety. Welding test plates in accordance with the requirements to AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code and AWS D1.5 Bridge Code are also covered.
WELD 322 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Pipe)
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 320 with a grade of "C" or better; OR a minimum of 2 years of welding experience.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; or ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the applications of shielded metal arc welding used to join low-pressure piping systems that carry water and residential natural gas. Topics include: welding required for high pressure critical piping systems such as steam pipe, fuel transportation pipe lines, boilers, offshore oil-rigs, and other critical heavy-duty piping systems.
WELD 330 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (Plate)
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a grade of "C" or better; OR at least one year of welding experience.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; OR ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) of aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel, and other metals used in industry. This course content is relevant to code welding in accordance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section 1X (ASME), the Structural welding Code D1.1 (AWS), and the American Petroleum Institute 1104 (API). It also covers filler metal selection, both specifications and classifications, shielding gases, welding power supplies, and welding safety. Certification and procedure qualification to code specifications are also covered.
WELD 332 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (Pipe)
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 330 with a grade of "C" or better; OR a minimum of two years of welding experience.
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 AND ENGWR 300; OR ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers the application of low-pressure and high-pressure critical piping systems used in oil, gas, nuclear, and chemical industries. It covers Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) of aluminum pipe, stainless steel pipe, and carbon steel pipe. It explores code welding in accordance with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section 1X (ASME), Structural Welding Code D1.1 (AWS), and American Petroleum Institute 1104 (API). Certification and procedure qualification to ASME Section 1X, AWS D1.1, API 1104 code specifications are also covered.
WELD 333 Gas Metal Arc Welding, Steel
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a grade of "C" or better, or a minimum of one year of welding experience.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course is the study of welding using the Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) process on carbon steels in accordance with the American Welding Society (AWS), Structural welding Code D1.1, and Sheet Steel Code D1.3. It covers semi-automatic wire-feed welding with micro wires on steel plates of varying thicknesses. It also covers joint design and all welding positions, welding power supplies, types of metal transfer (spray, globular, pulsed-arc, and short circuit), filler metal selection, both specifications and classifications, shielding gases used for each type of transfer, and welding safety.
WELD 334 Gas Metal Arc Welding: Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals
- Units:2
- Hours:18 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 333 with a grade of "C" or better
- Advisory:Eligible for ENGRD 310 or ENGRD 312 and ENGWR 300; or ESLW 340.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers semiautomatic wire feed welding using micro wires on aluminum and stainless steel plates of varying thickness. Joint design, gas variations and all welding positions are covered. The emphasis of this course is on code welding aluminum and stainless steels. The content of this course is relevant to code welding in accordance with the American Welding Society (AWS), Structural Aluminum Welding Code D1.2 and Structural Welding Stainless Steel Code D1.6. It also covers welding power supplies, types of metal transfer (spray, globular, pulsed-arc, and short circuit). This course also covers filler metal selection, both specifications and classifications, and shielding gases used for each type of transfer. Welding safety is also covered.
WELD 335 Flux Core Arc Welding
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:WELD 300 with a grade of "C" or better, or a minimum of one year of welding experience.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course provides training to develop semi-automatic welding skills on carbon steels. Topics include small and large diameter flux cored electrodes, with and without external shielding gas, in all positions on fillet and groove welds. It also provides a thorough technical understanding of the Flux Core Arc Welding process and arc welding safety.
WELD 342 Symbol Reading, Layout and Fabrication
- Units:3
- Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
- Prerequisite:None.
- Corequisite:WELD 300
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This course covers blueprint and welding symbol interpretation. It includes metal layout, measurement, marking, and layout tools used in construction, and techniques of fabrication and assembly methods. It also covers fundamentals of blueprint reading, including basic lines and views, dimensions, notes and specifications, structural shapes, sections, detail, and assembly.
WELD 495 Independent Studies in Welding
- Units:1 - 3
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
WELD 499 Experimental Offering in Welding
- Units:0.5 - 4
- Prerequisite:None.
- Transferable:CSU
- Catalog Date:August 1, 2024
This is the experimental courses description.
