Student Handbook and Catalog 2021-22 V2

236| Continuing Education
Welding
Eight-Week Structural Welding Program
This program is designed to prepare the student for entry level
employment in the welding industry. The course content applies to
manufacturing, fabrication, construction, maintenance and repair
and shipbuilding.
The program teaches the student structural welding used for
welding carbon steel plate. They will learn to set up oxy fuel
welding and cutting equipment, welding machines, gas flow
meters and welding guns. Students will then practice welding plate
in the fillet weld and v-groove positions.
Weld Processes Covered are:
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW).
• Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW).
• Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW).
• Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW).
Classroom topics include:
• Weld Theory.
• Inspection and Non-destructive Examination.
• Basic Metallurgy.
• Preheat and Post Heat Applications.
• Welding Codes and Standards.
Each lesson begins in weld safety and theory and concludes in lab
practice application.
Upon successful completion of the program, the student should
be able to qualify in tack, fillet, and groove welds on carbon steel
plate to American Welding Society standards. This qualification is
essential to gaining employment in the welding industry. Safe work
practices are taught in both the classroom and welding lab.
The Eight-Week Structural Welding Program is available at the
Waco campus.
WLDG 1028 Introduction to Shielded Metal Arc
Welding (SMAW)
WLDG 1007 Introduction to Welding Using
Multiple Processes
WLDG 1034 Introduction to Gas Tungsten
Arc (GTAW) Welding
Total Program
80 hours
160 hours
80 hours
320 hours
Total Cost: $4,500
For more information, please contact:
TSTC Workforce Training & Continuing Education
MobileWelding@tstc.edu
tstc.edu
Texas State Technical College