Welding Academy - Eau Claire (Must Take Fall Term)
CVTC and local high schools have partnered to offer incoming juniors and seniors who are interested in pursuing a career in welding the opportunity to earn high school and college credit. Dual credit academies give high school students a chance to navigate their interests and career options to develop the most successful individualized career path.
By successfully completing all five courses and the WorkKeys Assessments for Industrial Skills, students will earn an Intro to GMAW technical diploma. Students not meeting the required scores for the Workkeys Assessments will be required to complete the Industrial skills course. All of the academy courses listed below will be taught at the CVTC Campus in Eau Claire. Welding Print Reading will be offered online.
Students enrolled in this academy will learn about welding safety, basic welding math, welding print reading, and wire feed welding processes.
When: January – May 2025
Location: CVTC Transportation & Manufacturing Centers
Credential: Intro to Gas Metal Arc Welding (31 - 442 - 1) 1 - year technical diploma/embedded credential.
*Students must complete the WorkKeys assessment to be awarded credit for Industrial Skills for Welders, which is part of the Career Pathway Certificate requirements.
| Course Title | Course Time | Times | Days |
442 - 300 Adv Shielded Metal Arc Welding 3 credit | January 28 – March 20, 2025 April 1 - May 22, 2025 | 10:00 - 11:55 am 8:00 - 11:55 am | T/Th T/Th |
442 - 327 Welding Theory 2 credits | January 27 – May 21, 2025 | 1:00 - 2:55 pm | M/W |
442 - 360 Robotic Welding 2 credits | January 30– May 22, 2025 | 1:00 - 4:55 pm | Th |
442 - 363 Advanced Gas Metal Arc Welding 4 credits | January 27 – May 21, 2025 | 8:00 - 11:55 am | M/W |
| 457 - 300 Fabrication 3 credits | January 28 – May 20, 2025 | 1:00 - 3:55 pm 8:00 - 10:55 am | Tues Friday |
Course Descriptions
442 - 300 Advanced Sheld Metal Arc Welding
Students will learn equipment set up, safe practices as well as perform SMAW welds in all positions while following WPS's in a lab setting.
442 - 327 Welding Theory
Continuation of Metals Technology 1, 442 - 303, expanding on and covering a variety of technical topics related to the Welding program. Topics will include: material handling, introduction to Welding Procedure Specification (WPS) and certifications. Discussion will also GTAW process, electrode and filler metal.
442 - 360 Robotic Welding
Safety; setup; programming; and operation of a welding robot. Variables and problems will be studied and solutions applied to provide a practical, efficient application of the GMAW (gas metal arc welding) process to an automated system.
442 - 363 Advanced Gas Metal Arc Welding
Continuation of Basic Wire - Feed Welding. Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW, wire - feed welding, MIG) using spray transfer, pulse GMAW, flux - cored wire, aluminum, and stainless steel wire on various metals and joint designs. Destructive and nondestructive testing methods; welding codes and certification.
457 - 300 Fabrication
Students will be Introduced to and apply basic metal fabrication and layout principles in a lab setting following safe lab practices and working off welding prints.
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