Aluminum Welding & Fabrication

Purpose:

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Manufacturing career cluster.

Description:

Aluminum Welding & Fabrication 1

The Aluminum Welding and Fabrication 1 course prepares students for entry into the aluminum welding industry. Students explore career opportunities and requirements of a professional aluminum welder and fabricator. Content emphasizes beginning skills key to the success of working in the aluminum welding industry. Students study workplace safety and organization, basic manufacturing processes, metals identification, basic interpretation of welding symbols, and aluminum shearing/cutting practices.

Aluminum Welder & Fabricator 2

The Aluminum Welder and Fabricator 2 course is designed to build on the skills and knowledge students learned in Aluminum Welder and Fabricator 1 for entry into the aluminum welding industry. Students explore career opportunities and requirements of a professional aluminum welder. Content emphasizes beginning skills key to the success of working in the aluminum welding industry. Students study drawings, intermediate shearing/cutting practices and basic gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) skills.