Welding Fundamentals Pathway
Overview
Welders are highly skilled tradespeople involved with the construction, repair, fabrication, and maintenance of critical infrastructure. This pathway provides a basic understanding of various arc welding processes as well as the power sources and consumables involved with them.
Pathway Micro-Credentials
Electrodes and Consumables
This professional level course focuses on comprehensive knowledge of welding electrodes and consumables. Topics 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.
Welding Processes
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding processes. Topics include describing the classification of welding processes, identifying torches/guns for each welding process, explaining weld soundness and variables associated with each welding process, and identifying typical discontinuities for each welding process.
Power Sources for Welding
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.