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Welding/Maintenance and Fabrication
Technical Diploma
30-442-2

2007-2008 Program Sheet
Build Your Welding Career Ladder brochure (pdf)

About the Career
Welding is the art of joining metal pieces together to form a strong bond that results in a complete unit. Evidence of welders’ work is all around us, everything from battleships, cars and piping to the amazing dome on the U.S. Capitol building. If you like hands-on work, especially with metals, have solid math and reading skills, are dedicated to accuracy and detail, and enjoy putting things together to form useful products, welding may be the perfect career for you.

Career Outlook
Opportunities will be best for those with formal training as technology is creating more uses for welding in the workplace and expanding employment options.

Potential Starting Salary
$27,647
Salary Information Source: LTC Research Department

Schedule
Varies–program courses offered evenings, one, two, or three nights per week.

Length of time to complete coursework
3.5 years. No general studies course work required.

Starts
August, October 2007 and January, March, June 2008.

Course Pre- or Co-requisites
Additional pre-requisites listed with course descriptions.

Approximate Costs
•$97.05 per credit (resident)
•$594.25 per credit (out-of-state resident)
•Online class fee is $10 per credit
•Other fees vary by program (books, supplies, materials, tools, uniforms, health-related exams, etc)

Welding/Maintenance and Fabrication Coursework–20 Credits

Course Title Credits Delivery Method Offered
Welding Introduction 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Oxyacetylene Plasma Arc 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Shielded Metal Arc IA (Stick) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Shielded Metal Arc IB (Stick) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Shielded Metal Arc IIA (Stick) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Shielded Metal Arc IIB (Stick) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Metal Arc IA (Wire/Mig) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Arc IB (Wire/Mig) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Metal Arc IIA (Wire/MIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Metal Arc IIB (Wire/MIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Tungsten Arc IA (Heli-Arc/TIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Tungsten Arc IB (Heli-Arc/TIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Tungsten Arc IIA (Heli-Arc/TIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Gas Tungsten Arc IIB (Heli-Arc/TIG) 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Advance Process IA 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Advance Process IB 1 In-Person Fall, Spring, Summer
Welding Fabrication 2 In-Person Every three years
Metallurgy 1 In-Person Fall and Spring
Welding Print Reading 1 In-Person

Fall and Spring

Want more information?
•Submit your questions online.
•Email info@gotoltc.edu
•Call 1.888.GO TO LTC, Ext. 1109

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