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Welding students learn to construct and repair equipment, machinery, parts and piping by fusing metal parts together. Students follow layouts, blueprints, work orders and verbal directions using oxyacetylene, MIG, TIG or arc welding apparatus.

Students completing this course may find employment as a production or construction welder. With experience and further training, a student may become a blacksmith, instrument maker or technical consultant. Possible employers are heavy construction contractors, machine tool shops, shipyards and the aerospace industry.

Course Content:
· Characteristics and properties of metal
· Heat treating
· Cutting
· Brazing
· Oxyacetylene, MIG, TIG, arc and metal electrode welding
· Blueprint reading for welders
· Welding certifications (A.W.S. and New York state)