Dec 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum

Welding Technology: Entry Level Option, CERT

Location(s): TJC West


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Welders join metal parts using heat and/or pressure to form a permanent bond. Our entry-level certificate of proficiency in Welding Technology provides you with a fast track to using the skills you learn in the real world.

Our highly qualified professors will teach you hands-on using the equipment and safety practices for several different welding processes. Additionally, you will learn blueprint reading as well as layout and fabrication skills.

Come take your first step to a new career.

Marketable skills for this award include: detail-oriented, technical skills, time management and reading prints/welding symbols.

 

Certificate of Proficiency
TSI Exempt

Total Semester Hours: 23


NOTE: Department-specific courses must be taken in sequence and may have a prerequisite course. Exceptions must be approved in writing by the department chair. Some courses are only offered during Fall semester or Spring semester but not both. Please plan accordingly.

# Indicates course only taught in the fall semester

+ Indicates course only taught in the spring semester

^ Indicates course only taught in the summer semester

NOTE: Applicants must meet the admission requirements for TJC and take the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test. Bennett test scores will not be used to exclude a student from enrollment in the program.

All new students are required to attend welding orientation.

All required WLDG courses must be completed with a “C” or better.

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