Welding Junior/Senior Option

Welding Junior/Senior Option Program Overview

Northwest Tech delivers much more than a your typical classroom and book-learning experience — you will learn hands-on, acquiring essential skills and professional connections along the way.

Northwest Tech’s welding department presents unique opportunities for you, the student, by devoting the majority of its program to actual work-based experience, including in-shop training and on-the-job site training. Additionally, our curriculum is continually being updated to provide you with the latest training for the industry as technology and equipment advance.

Welding is designed to teach specific skills in all aspects of the welding trade, which include arc welding, oxyacetylene welding, TIG, MIG, brazing, and semi-automatic cutting. Other related areas of study include blueprint reading, job layout, shop math, hard surfacing (ARC as well as powder torch), and pipe welding. You will learn welding processes that allow you to work with mild steel, cast iron, brass, aluminum, stainless steel, and some alloy metals.

Northwest Tech offers you several welding program options: a two-semester work-based track where you can receive your Associate's Degree or a Technical Certificate C; and an 18-week track specializing in pipe and plate welding where you can earn a Technical Certificate A.

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First Year

Course #	Course Name	Credits
WD 101	OSHA 10	1
WD 112	Oxy-Fuel Welding	2
WD 115	Cutting Processes	3
WD 133	Blueprint Reading I	3
WD 154	Practicum in Fabrication I	2
WD 141	SMAW	3
WD 146	GMAW	3
WD 148	Automated Cutting Processes	2
WD 195	Core Wire Welding	6
	Total Year Credits	22

Second Year

Course #	Course Name	Credits
WD 153	Welding Blueprint Reading II	3
WD 170	GTAW	3
WD 180	GMAW II	4
WD 184	Practicum in Fabrication II	2
WD 150	Pipe Welding-SMAW	3
WD 175	SMAW II	4
WD 185	Pipe Welding/TIG	2
AE 205	Forklift Operator Training	1
	Total Year Credits	22

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Program Hours/Estimated Salary

Annual Salary Range: $25,000 - $50,000

PROGRAM HOURS: 7:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tools

• Northwest Tech provides toolkits for in-classroom/shop use
• Safety Kit is $100 plus tax
• *This does not include the price of our General Education Classes and Books.
• *The core technical classes are covered through the Excel in CTE program.

Employment Options

• TIG Welder
• Pipe Welder
• Structural Welder
• Fabrications Shop
• Equipment Manufacturing & Repair

 

Faculty

Shea Vrbka
Welding Instructor
785-890-1576
shea.vrbka@nwktc.edu

Tim Davis
Welding Instructor
785-890-1576
tim.davis@nwktc.edu

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Kayla Luera
Director of Enrollment Management & Outreach
785-890-1512
kayla.luera@nwktc.edu