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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. |
Program Description The PPCC Welding Technology program teaches you the comprehensive skills you need in Oxyacetylene Welding and Cutting, Shielded Metal Arc Welding, Gas metal Arc Welding, and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, classes are also available utilizing CAD/CAM Plasma Cutting, Robotic Welding Programming, Ornamental Iron Fabrication and Blueprint Reading. The AAS degree in Welding gives you a broad range of skills, along with additional competencies in Welding to enhance your upward mobility.You may earn a short-term certificate, or go all the way and get your AAS degree. Certificates are available in Basic General Job Entry Skill Level, Pipe Welding, Structural Welding, and Combination Pipe, Structural and Advanced Processes. | Career Path Notes All welding courses are offered on an open-entry, open-exit, and self-paced basis, so you can complete the program on your own terms. | Program Information Click here for program specific information. | For More Information Call the Division of Communications, Humanities, and Technical Studies at 719-502-3200. | Employment Opportunities The Associate of Applied Science degree provide training for entry-level welding occupations such as Welder, Arc Welder, Pipe Welder, and Welder-Assembler.Career opportunities exist in structural steel, pressure vessels, cross country pipeline, repair shop, maintenance, heavy equipment fabrication, sheet metal, automotive industry, ornamental iron, layout and blueprint reading, fabrication shop, CAD/CAM programming, welding assembly, welding fitting, tack welding, and more. | Earnings Outlook In Colorado, the median hourly salary in 2005 for Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers was $14.90 with a salary range of $10.86 – $22.93. From 2004 to 2014, there are expected to be an average of 180 job openings per year statewide. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. | Financial Aid www.ppcc.edu/FinancialAid | Advising www.ppcc.edu/Advising | Apply www.ppcc.edu/Apply |
Associate of Applied Science Degree 1st Semester - Fall CSC 105 Computer Literacy WEL 106 Blueprint Reading for Welders and Fitters WEL 113 Oxyfuel and Plasma Cutting WEL 114 Oxyacetylene Welding WEL 121 Structural Welding I WEL 122 Structural Welding II Semester 1 Credit Hours 17 2nd Semester - Spring MAC 240 CAD/CAM 2D MAT 107 Career Math WEL 124 Introduction to Gas Tungsten Arc Welding WEL 125 Introduction to Gas Metal Arc Welding WEL 205 Introduction to Ornamental Iron Semester 2 Credit Hours 18 3rd Semester - Fall COM 225 Introduction to Organizational Communication WEL 200 Advanced CAD/CAM Cutting Processes WEL 224 Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding WEL 225 Advanced Gas Metal Arc Welding Elective General Education Elective from approved list Semester 3 Credit Hours 18 4th Semester - Spring WEL 230 Pipe Welding I WEL 231 Pipe Welding II WEL 240 Pipe Welding Certification WEL 250 Layout and Fabrication General Education Elective from approved list Semester 4 Credit Hours 19 Total Credit Hours 72 Certificates Basic General Job Entry Skill Level Pipe Structural Combination Pipe, Structural and Advanced Processes |
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