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Mar 29, 2024
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Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WELD 230 Metal Forming I8 credits This course focuses on the principals, procedures, and safe operations of manual metal forming equipment such as hammers, hydraulic presses for die-forming, and slip rollers. Students learn to create solid shapes or hollow forms, with or without the application of heat.
Prerequisites: WELD 106 or instructor permission.
Quarters Offered: All
Student Outcomes/Competencies: Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Use technical resources to access information regarding metal forming
- Identify and use common types of shop equipment and hand tools to safely perform shaping/fabrication procedures
- Read and follow blueprints
- Use math to layout parts for forming and calculate stretch out or shrinkage
- Use proper tools and equipment to upset, profile, and form parts
- Use proper forming techniques to make metal shapes
- Communicate with colleagues to determine steps to complete forming projects
- Follow industry standard safe practices, including the using and wearing of all safety equipment needed to form and fabricate or be in a fab shop environment
- Comply with hazardous material laws and processes
- Use metallurgy principles to properly select material, tools, and equipment, and to perform metal forming tasks
- Make equipment adjustments/calibrations and complete fabrication/forming projects
- Prepare a work area for layout and forming procedures
- Select and safely set up tooling and equipment for metal shaping
- Use proper forming/shaping tools and equipment to form and shape metal
- Use proper forming/shaping techniques to form and shape metal
Total Hours: 130 Lecture Hours: 30 Lab or Clinical Hours: 100
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