Welding Technology
Forge a Better Future
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.
Program Information
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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.
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Contact Career Planning and Advising at (719) 502-3232
www.ppcc.edu/Advising
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