SVCC Catalog/Handbook 2017-2018

100 Southside Virginia Community College
WELDING
Award: Certificate
Length: Thirty-seven credit hour program
Purpose: Provide advanced welding skill training that
will be useful in a broad range of industrial careers.
Program Description: This curriculum provides both
hands-on training and a detailed knowledge base in
the most prevalent welding and cutting processes used in
industry today. Students will also become proficient with
metalworking tools used in manufacturing and fabrication,
learn to read technical drawings, develop basic
hand drafting skills, and train for welding certification
tests in structural plate and pressure pipe. Welding is a
manual skill that takes many, many years to master. The
welding certificate program provides a firm foundation
of skills students will be able to build their career upon.
Course
Title
Hours
Lab
FIRST SEMESTER
SDV 100 College Success Skills 1 0 1
WEL 120 Introduction to Welding 1 3 3
WEL 123 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Basic) 2 3 3
WEL 160 Gas Metal Arc Welding 2 3 3
WEL 164 Gas Tungsten Arc Welding 2 3 3
Total 9 9 13
SECOND SEMESTER
WEL 124 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Advanced) 2 3 3
WEL 150 Welding Drawing and Interpretation 3 0 3
WEL 195 Topics in Welding 3 0 3
WEL 116 Welding I (Oxy-Acetylene) 1 3 2
Total 9 6 11
THIRD SEMESTER
WEL 126 Pipe Welding I 2 3 3
ENG EEE English Elective 3 0 3
WEL 138 Pipe and Tube Welding (TIG) 1 3 2
MAC 131 Machine Lab I 1 2 2
EEE General Education Elective 3 0 3
Total 10 8 13
Total credits ..................................................................................................................................................................37