WELD 100 Introduction to Art Welding

5 credits

This course is a cross-listing of ART 103 . Students who take ART 103  meet the Humanities  distribution area requirement. WELD 100 is a technical course and does not meet the Humanities requirement. Students cannot take both classes for credit.

Prerequisites: ABED 40  or AHSE 56  (or placement into MATH 87  or AHSE 66  or higher) and ABED 46  or ELL 50  (or placement into ENGL 93  or higher) 

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Follow industry standard safe practices, including using and wearing of all safety equipment needed to weld or be in a welding environment
• Identify and use common types of shop equipment and hand tools to safely perform welding procedures
• Use manufacturing principles to properly select material, tools, and equipment, and to perform welding tasks
• Prepare a work area to do oxy/acetylene cutting and welding
• Select and safely set up oxy/acetylene welding, brazing, and cutting equipment
• Store, transport, and handle all types of welding gases and oxy/acetylene welding equipment properly and safely
• Use proper welding tools and equipment to weld, cut, and braze
• Select and safely set up gas metal arc welding equipment
• Prepare metal for gas metal arc welding procedures using proper joint design, equipment, and joint preparation techniques
• Use proper gas metal arc welding techniques to weld
• Store, transport, and handle all types of gas metal arc welding equipment properly and safely
• Create art projects using safe welding practices