Welding and Fabrication is a niche industry with a high demand

Welding and Fabrication is a program that teaches such a specific skill set that the demand for workers in this industry remains high year after year. With potential career pathways that range from a welder, welding technician, fabricator, or welding supply representative, students have ample opportunities to advance directly into the workforce with the experience necessary to perform the duties this industry requires.

Students will learn in a hands-on environment and explore arc welding, blueprint reading, metal inert gas welding and plasma cutting, oxy-acetylene welding and cutting, and tungsten inert gas welding.

Skills Learned:

• Arc welding
• Oxy-acetylene cutting
• Tungsten inert gas welding
• CNC plasma cutting
• Blueprint reading
• Gas metal arc welding, short arc, spray pulse/flux core
• Stick metal arc welding
• FANUC programming
• Yaskawa programming

Potential Careers:

• Welder
• Welding Technician
• Fabricator
• Welding Supply Representative
• Basic Robotics Programmer