WEL 298 - Thermal Cutting and Welding
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
1 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 7.5
Total Lab Hours: 15
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is where students will cover and learn the aspects of safe operation in the following areas: OFC, OFW, Brazing and Plasma Cutting equipment. Students will demonstrate how to safely operate the equipment in order to make cuts and welding in the flat position. 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.
Corequisites: None
Prerequisites: None
Recommended(s): None
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: 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: Course Materials: $60.00
Common Course Assessment(s): All assessments are common amongst all course sections
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Safely apply proper welding and brazing techniques for the flat and horizontal position.
2. Safely apply proper cutting techniques for the flat and horizontal positions.
3. Determine welding and cutting variables for the flat and horizontal welding positions.
4. Judge quality of work compared with acceptable standards.
Course Objectives:
1. Learn safety precautions and practice safety with welding and cutting projects in Oxy-Fuel and Plasma equipment.
2. Use proper torch angles in the flat and horizontal position to control weld bead placement.
3. Build a working knowledge of machine and Oxy-Fuel settings to make changes for welding different materials and methods.
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