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WEL 710 - Robotic Welding


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This course is an advance course where students learn theory and skills of utilizing the same robots and software that are used in the welding industry. Integration of robotic automation will teach design and manufacturing concepts using basic operations of welding robots. Labs provide hands-on activities that help explain the lecture material. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills in the shop as they develop their hands-on welding techniques, which will benefit the student in future welding careers. This course will also help students gain manufacturing communication skills to be used throughout their life.

Prerequisites: WEL 122 - Beginning Welding  or WEL 181 - Gas Metal Arc Welding  
Recommended(s): none
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): Quizzes, Homework, Labs, Hands-On Competency/Test, Class Participation

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

  • Safely apply methods to power up, programing and jog the robot.
  • Recover from common program and robot faults.
  • Execute production operations to acceptable standards in industry.
  • Create, modify and execute a teaching pendant program.
  • Backup and restore individual programs and files.

Course Objectives:

  • State safety precautions to power up and jog the robot.
  • Select proper method to recover from common program and robot faults.
  • Apply a working knowledge to backup and restore individual programs and files. 
  • Create, modify and execute a teaching pendant program.
  • Apply a working knowledge to execute production operations to acceptable standards in industry. 



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