WLD 215 - Fabrication/Welding 4

12 Credit(s)

This course instructs in the skills and technology associated with fabrication of metal products. Welding practice is provided in wire drive, SMAW and GTAW processes. Fabrication skills taught include blueprint reading, metal layout, part preparation, assembly and final finishing. Also studied are concepts in ferrous metallurgy and their applications.

Prerequisite: WLD 112  and WLD 113  and WLD 114 . Second year standing or instructor consent or performance test and written examination.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Make shop drawings

2. Read and apply industrial blueprints

Shop Fabrication:

3. Identify symbols and shapes of structural steels

4. Read and apply industrial blueprints

5. Use pitch lines, beam boards, web wages, and miter techniques to layout structural steel

6. Cope, fit, and weld various structural steel shapes

7. Fabricate and weld metal products

8. Demonstrate safe and effective use of shop tools

Metallurgy:

9. Identify various types of the more common commercial metals by two or more methods

10. Describe physical, mechanical and chemical properties of carbon and alloy

11. Describe the purpose, write procedures and perform heat treating processes commonly used with carbon and alloy steels

12. Explain the dynamics and implement procedures for the control of thermally induced expansion/contraction stresses in steel

13. Use non-destructive and destructive testing procedures to evaluate base metal properties

Welding: Shielded Metal Arc Welding:

14. Weld SMAW projects and products.

Gas Metal Arc Welding:

15. Weld GMAW projects and products

Gas Tungsten Arc Welding:

16. Set GTAW machine controls to weld steel alloys

17. Layout, cut, tack typical industrial weld joints, and makes welds on these joints

18. Make industrially acceptable welds on various structural materials

19. Perform non-destructive and destructive weld tests on steel weldments

20. Critique welds identifying causes of, and solutions to, various weld defects