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With your AAS in Welding Technology, you’ll be well prepared for a diverse and exciting career thanks to our hands-on training approach. Welding is an art, and once you complete this program you can apply your skills in automobile repair and fabrication, tack welding, ornamental welding and even CAD/CAM programming.

Talented welders share a liking for accuracy, carefulness, attention to detail, and producing high quality work. They conform to rigid standards of performance, since their work is often of critical importance to such things as structural safety and integrity. You might choose this career if you are interested in applying hands-on technical welding skills in structural, manufacturing, and ornamental applications.You will use a variety of welding techniques, positions and materials to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. You will also apply your understanding of blueprint reading, metallurgy, and layout/fabrication, while ensuring that projects meet high quality standards and specifications.

Welders enjoy good advancement opportunities, with good pay and fringe benefits, and are able to choose from many different types of industries in which they would like to work. Want to find out if this career is for you? Check it out on the web at http://www.acinet.org/, and select Occupation Information.