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Elevating your expertise through upgrade courses is an investment in personal growth and a strategic step toward enhancing your career as a welding inspector. These courses serve as a conduit for mastering the latest technological advancements, regulatory updates, and innovative inspection techniques, ensuring you remain at the forefront of industry standards.
Unlock advanced knowledge in welding inspection and testing with our specialized course catered to Level 1 Welding Inspectors. Delve deeper into inspection techniques through world-class instruction from CWB instructors and connect with fellow professionals to expand your network. Gain access to our comprehensive online platform, CWB Learning Resources, for 90 days before the course commencement, offering curated content, quizzes, and digital textbooks. Explore a range of topics including welding processes, metallurgy, mechanical testing, and inspection methods such as radiographic and ultrasonic.
Embark on a journey to enhance your expertise in inspection management and metallurgical principles with our specialized course tailored for applicant Level III Welding Inspectors. Led by knowledgeable instructors, immerse yourself in cutting-edge teachings while fostering valuable connections within the industry. Dive into essential modules covering topics such as quality concepts, metal structure, welding metallurgy, and mechanical testing.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of electrodes and consumables used in welding. Topics covered in this course include, understanding the groupings and classifications of standard electrodes covered in various CSA and AWS standards, understanding the basic classifications for low alloy steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and nickel alloy electrodes, understanding classification of electrodes for soldering and brazing filler metals, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding metallurgy of steel. Topics covered in this course include metallurgical transformations, cracking tests, lamellar tearing, meld metal reactions, avoidance of hydrogen induced cold crack, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of mechanical testing of welds. Topics covered in this course include the concepts of stress and strain, the method behind tensile tests and bend tests, the requirements of various codes for tensile and bend tests, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding metallurgy of stainless steels. Topics covered in this course include explaining the role of various alloying elements in stainless steels, explaining the major problems in welding stainless steels and how to overcome them, understanding the welding procedures for stainless steels, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of power sources used in welding. Topics include, describing the static and dynamic characteristics of welding power sources, distinguishing between conductors and insulators, describing the evolution of welding power sources, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of radiographic inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include describing how radiography works, explaining how images are formed and what controls their quality, recognizing radiographic images of various defects, describing safety practices with radiographic inspection, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding related stress and distortion. Topics covered in this course include, describing the causes of distortion, identifying the residual stress patterns in rolled shapes, identifying the types of distortion and explaining techniques of limiting and controlling distortion, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of physical metallurgy. Topics covered in this course include, understanding the making of iron and steel, understanding the crystallographic differences between the ferrite and austenite lattice, understanding strengthening mechanisms, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of surface inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include explaining the basic principles of LP and MP inspection methods, understanding the components of typical inspection procedures and techniques, identifying false and non-relevant indications, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of ultrasonic inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include describing how ultrasonic inspection works, calibrating equipment and the suitability of equipment and materials for the specifications of ultrasonic testing, describe the typical code requirements governing ultrasonic testing, and more.
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of advanced knowledge of welding processes and equipment. This course provides an overview of the major welding processes available, with emphasis on the arc welding processes.
Applied & Technical Studies of University of Fraser Valley