Welding and Joining Technology - Eastern Wyoming College

Welding and Joining Technology from Eastern Wyoming College is a Campus Associate Engineering General degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Welders are skilled crafts persons who like to work with their hands. A welder can find work almost anywhere from the smallest shop down the street to the largest industrial complex in our major cities. All hard goods manufactured make extensive use of welding in building cars, trucks, buses, trains, ships, aircraft, space vehicles, farm implements, and jewelry. A graduate welder is capable of welding ferrous and nonferrous metals in all positions and can operate shears, drills, and power tools. A welder is competent in layout, cutting, and forming metals and determining electrodes and filler metal to be used. They must know how to work from blueprints and written procedures and know welding symbols. The welding program at Eastern Wyoming College is centered in the Mechanical Arts Building and is set up as close to industry as is possible. Each student is assigned a welding machine, table, and positioner. Discussion of safety rules, regulations, and safe use of equipment are included in the curriculum. The objectives of the program are to enable the student to meet entry-level requirements for employment, build a basis for further study, and for lifelong learning in the metal working trades. Students will study both the theory and practice of shielded metal arc welding, oxyacetylene welding , gas tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding , and flux cored arc welding. Technical aspects of the above processes are taught with emphasis on plate and pipe welding of mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum. Flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions are covered in each area. The theory and practice of mechanical and manual cutting with oxyacetylene and air carbon arc cutting and gouging, joint design, preparation and layout of plate and pipe are also included in the program. View more details on Eastern Wyoming College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Engineering General courses.