Welding and Fabrication
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Welding Program Info
Description
Students will be provided a comprehensive foundation in welding safety, technical skills, and career readiness. Through hands-on training and exposure to industry-standard processes—including Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC), and Oxygen-Fuel Cutting (OFC)—students develop the competencies required for entry-level certification and employment. Emphasizing blueprint reading, equipment operation, and project-based learning, the program prepares individuals to meet the expectations of the American Welding Society (AWS) and pursue further education or careers in welding and related trades. Dual credit through Joliet Junior College and industry-recognized certifications are available.
Philosophy
Students, who have the desire, work ethic, drive, and basic skills, can take away an experience that will always allow them an opportunity to better understand the need to be zealous in their effort, to perfect their skills.
Goals
Upon completion of course, you will be able to set-up and cut/weld with oxy/acte, set-up and weld with E7010/E7018 electrodes
Course Outline
Week 1:
- Safety and safe work habits
Week 2:
- Safety and work habits (quiz)
Week 3:
- Basic math and tools used
Week 4:
- Basic math and tools used (quiz)
Week 5:
- Hand tools and there use (quiz)
Week 6:
- Power tools and their use (quiz)
Week 7:
- Introduction to blueprints (quiz)
Week 8:
- Blue prints/basic welding
Week 9:
- Blue Print/Welding symbols (quiz)
Week 10:
- Basic Rigging (quiz)
Week11-14:
- Oxy-fuel set-up and safe operating discussions and projects to be covered in this time frame (quiz)
Week 15:
- Summary of covered topics
Week 16:
- Semester finals
Week 17:
- GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding)
Week 18:
- Base Metal Preparation
Week 19-21:
- Demonstrations and practice
Week 22:
- Lap welds
Week 23:
- Butt welds
Week 24:
- fillet weld
Week 25:
- corner weld
Week 26-29:
- Reserved for projects
Week 30-35:
- Finish any projects and summarize
Week 36:
- Finals
Week 37:
- Clean up
Skills Recommendations
A student who is considering enrolling in Welding program at the Wilco Area Career Center
should have:
Knowledge and Skills in these Academic areas:
Mathematics
- add, subtract, multiply, & divide positive and negative numbers, fractions, and decimals
- knowledge of rules of geometry
- calculate averages, ratios, proportions and rates
Reading
- read and comprehend at technical level
- can determine cause and effect relationships
- understand multiple step instructions
- decode words
Writing
- focus on the clear communication of content
Skills and Abilities in:
Reasoning and Problem Solving
- follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order
- notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong
- find and recognize important information
- formulate solutions for potential problems
- judge costs and benefits of a possible action
Managing Oneself, People, Time, and Things
- check how well they are learning or doing something
- go back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information without becoming confused
- obtain needed equipment and materials and oversee their use
Working with People
- be able to work as a team member
- be able to take direction and criticism
Working with Things
- evaluate quality or performance
- safely operate equipment
- determine the tools and equipment needed to do a job
- determine the causes of technical problems and find solutions for them
- maintain and repair equipment
- assess alternative methods of completing a task
Perceiving and Visualizing
- ability to utilize special relations
- imagine how something will look if its manipulated
