Welding Courses

WLV 1115 – Shielded Metal Arc Welding I
This course is designed to teach students welding techniques using E-6010 electrodes. Five semester credit hours.

WLV 1124 – Gas Metal Arc Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in various welding applications with the GMAW welder including short circuiting and pulsed transfer. Four semester credit hours.

WLV 1135 – Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in GTAW welding applications including aluminum and stainless steel. Five semester credit hours.

WLV 1143 – Flux Cored Arc Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in FCAW using cored wire and inert gases. Three semester credit hours.

WLV 1155 – Pipe Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in basic pipe welding procedures. Five semester credit hours.

WLV 1162 – Gas Metal Arc Aluminum Welding
This course is designed to give the student experience in Gas Metal Aluminum Welding. Two semester credit hours.

WLV 1171 – Welding Safety, Inspection, and Testing Principles
This course is designed to give the student experience in inspection and testing of welds. One semester credit hour.

WLV 1225 – Shielded Metal Arc Welding II
This course is designed to teach students welding techniques using E-7018 electrodes. Five semester credit hours.

WLV 1232 – Drawing and Welding Symbol Interpretation
This course is designed to give the student experiences in blueprint reading. Two semester credit hours.

WLV 1252 – Advanced Pipe Welding
This course is designed to give the student advanced pipe welding techniques using shielded metal arc and gas tungsten arc welding processes. Two semester credit hours.

WLV 1314 – Cutting Processes
This course is designed to give the student experience in oxyfuel cutting principles and practices, air carbon cutting and gouging, and plasma arc cutting. Four semester credit hours.

WLV 191(1-3) – Special Problem in Welding and Cutting
A course to provide students with an opportunity to utilize skills and knowledge gained in other Welding and Cutting Technology courses. The instructor and student work closely together to select a topic and establish criteria for completion of the project. One to three credit hours.

WLV 192 (1-6) – Supervised Work Experience in Welding and Cutting Technology
A course which is a cooperative program between industry and education designed to integrate the student's technical studies with industrial experience. Variable credit awarded on the basis of one semester hour per 45 industrial contact hours. One to six semester credit hours: Three to eighteen hours externship.

WLV 2812 – Welding Metallurgy
This course is designed to give the student experience in the concept of metallurgy and how metals react to internal and external strains and temperature changes. Two semester credit hours.

WLV 2913 – Welding Code
This course is designed to give the student experience in the various welding codes and the experience in interpretation of these codes. Three semester credit hours.