Catalog Info
Title when registering
Welding Fundamentals
Credit Hours
3.00
Contact Hours Per Week
3 (for 15-week classes)
Course Description
Explores basic adhesion and cohesion fundamentals, equipment, and procedures relative to: shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), oxy-fuel brazing (TB), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), gas tungsten arc welding, and oxy-fuel cutting (OFC). Includes oxy-fuel cutting, soldering and brazing theory and practice, AC and DC welding equipment and applications, flat and horizontal welding techniques, arc welding electrodes, gas metal arc welding principles and practices, and gas tungsten arc welding principles. All students will be required to wear clothing appropriate to a welding environment. It is also recommended that the student bring a pair of slip-joint pliers
Requirements are subject to change.
The information represented here is effective starting Summer 2014 and applies to the current catalog year.
If you were admitted prior to this year, please check your requirements under the
My Progress section of HFC Self Service.