Entry Level Welder, Career Pathway Certificate

Program Code: CC.ENTRYWLDTECH

This program is designed with core competencies in mind while allowing the student flexibility to take other relevant welding courses.

For information contact Dustin Bates, 503-594-3973 or dustinb@clackamas.edu, or the Automotive and Welding Department, 503-594-3047

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• work safely in an industrial environment around machinery, power tools, and chemicals;
• set up, operate, and make adjustments to welding equipment as necessary to demonstrate quality workmanship that meets current American Welding Society (AWS) and industry standards;
• apply basic knowledge of blueprint reading to fabricate projects as assigned.

Plan of Study Grid

First Term		Credits
WLD-100	Welder's Print Reading I	3
Select one of the following:		8
WLD-111	Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)
WLD-113	Gas Metal Arc Welding/Flux Core Arc Welding (Wirefeed)
WLD-115	Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW)
	Credits	11
Second Term
Select one of the following:		8
WLD-111	Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)
WLD-113	Gas Metal Arc Welding/Flux Core Arc Welding (Wirefeed)
WLD-115	Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW)
WLD-250	Welding Fabrication I Beginning Project	4
	Credits	12
	Total Credits	23

No course may be used to satisfy more than one requirement

Career opportunities include:

• blueprint reading and fitting
• tacking
• production welding
• repair welding
• fabrication