Welding Techniques
Courses & Descriptions

Semester 1

• Blueprint Reading for Welders CNST0110

  Units/ Hours: 30

  This course will introduce students to engineering blue prints, technical drawings, welding specifications, and welding symbols utilized to detail various weld requirements. Students will interpret simple joints, line types, weld types or cuts specified in a technical drawing and use this information to setup and perform welding details.

• Health and Safety Applied Applications CNST0152

  Units/ Hours: 28

  This course emphasizes the safety aspects encountered on the job site. Students will obtain workplace and industry related safety certification in Fall Protection, WHMIS, and Hoisting and Rigging through active demonstration of an appropriate level of skill.

  Pre-Requisites

  • Health and Safety Theory (CNST0151)

• Health and Safety Theory CNST0151

  Units/ Hours: 21

  This course has been prepared for those students entering the construction trade. The course will cover current legislation (O.H.S.A.), and its application to the trades. The course has been designed to develop in the learner knowledge of the health hazards and safety risks that are present on the job site and to equip them with the tools required for personal protection and general safety.

• Trade Calculations and Layout MATH0088

  Units/ Hours: 45

  This course covers the basic mathematical principles and geometry skills as required by the learner entering a trade. Topics covered will include fractions, decimals, and the S.I. and imperial systems of measurement, including conversions between systems. Mensuration, Pythagorean Theorem and trade related problems will also be covered. The basic principles of geometry will include line-work, angles and triangles, quadrilaterals, circles, polygons, the ellipse and surface development.

• Welding Fundamentals MECH0179

  Units/ Hours: 45

  This theoretical course will introduce students to basic welding theory, principles, processes, techniques and applications. Operating principles and safety procedures for welding processes and equipment will be studied.

• Welding Processes and Practices I MECH0180

  Units/ Hours: 135

  This practical based course will provide opportunity to practice the fundamental processes of welding and cutting processes and applications, safe handling and use of potentially dangerous equipment, operating principles, and application of oxy-acetylene welding and cutting equipment. Correct operating techniques in fusion welding, brazing and cutting will be practiced.

• Preparing for a Career in the Skilled Trades GNED0101

  Units/ Hours: 45

  This course introduces students to theories and strategies in the area of self awareness and relating to others and applies this learning to finding a job in the skill trades field.

Semester 2

• Computer Skills in Trades COMP0370

  Units/ Hours: 30

  This course covers the use of operating systems and web to generate professional reports and quotations. Creating spreadsheets using MS Excel for business applications will also be examined.

• Metallurgy, Electrodes and Consumables MECH0182

  Units/ Hours: 30

  This course will provide the non-metallurgist with basic knowledge of various metals, alloys, their properties and the classification system used to define them. Heating and cooling effects of various welding and fabrication processes on metal and alloys will be explored. Students will also be introduced to the various consumables and electrodes utilized in welding processes.

• Welding Faults and Inspection Techniques MECH0181

  Units/ Hours: 30

  This course will provide the learner with an understanding of welding quality from a perspective of defect identification and reviewing cause, effect and corrective actions for various defects. Understand function & application of destructive and non-destructive testing materials in weld quality, weld discontinuities, defects.

• Welding Processes and Practice II MECH0183

  Units/ Hours: 195

  This course builds on Welding Processes and Practices1 in providing students the opportunity to practice multiple welding processes and positions including the setup and application of various makes and types of welding machines. Included in this course are practical skills in Shielded Metal Arc Welding, Gas Metal Arc Welding and All Positions Plate Welding.

• Professional Portfolio Development GNED0033

  Units/ Hours: 45

  Get the Work You Want! This course will assist post-secondary students to locate and win positions they want in the workplace. The use and development of a professional portfolio will be emphasized. Through career analysis self-assessment, goal setting, and portfolio development participants will improve their ability to link their skills and knowledge to appropriate career positions. The basics of job searching will be enhanced with sessions on electronic resume posting, web site searches, and online job links. Participants will complete this course with the foundation of a professional portfolio and the knowledge to find the work they want.