The metal fabrication currently offers a one-year Certificate of Applied Science with the beginning welding courses starting each Fall semester and the second half in the Spring semester.

• Welding and Metal Fabrication Technology Associate of Applied Science
• Welding for Energy Technology Certificate of Applied Science
• Welding and Metal Fabrication Technology Certificate of Applied Science

• Welding and Metal Fabrication Technology Associate of Applied Science
• Welding and Metal Fabrication Technology Certificate of Applied Science

Students in the Metal Fabrication/Welding program are required to buy their own tools to use in the laboratory setting. The Metal Fabrication Tool List, Welding Tool Listand a list of vendors, that have previously worked with our students, are available online or from the New Student Services office.

• Read and interpret blueprints and shop drawings
• Lay out, sheer, cut, form and assemble weldments
  • Metal arc (stick) welding
  • oxyacetylene process
    • fusion welding, braze welding
• semiautomatic welding with solid wire and flux-cored wires
• manual and machine cutting
• Introduces metal fabrication design and safe operation of fabrication equipment including shears, pressbrakes, ironworkers, punches, drill presses, etc.
• Safety and accuracy are reinforced throughout the training