Welding / Metal Fabrication
Welding/Metal Fabrication is a two-year program to prepare students for entrylevel positions, apprenticeships, and college level training programs. Students learn and work in a professional environment to develop real world employee skills for success in future training and employment. Students who succeed in this program will have a broad base of skills related to the metalworking, manufacturing, and construction industries. Students will learn specific skills using the latest technology in welding and fabrication including SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, OFC, PAC, as well as Shearing, Punching, Forming, Sawing, Grinding, and Drilling.
Topics covered:
Major topics of study will include safety, trade math, ELA skills pertaining to the trade, layout skills, welded joint design, blueprint reading, metal fabrication, metallurgy, testing and inspection of welds, oxy-fuel cutting, air carbon arc gouging, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, flux-cored arc welding, gas tungsten arc welding, and American Welding Society Level 1 Certification.
Belmont Career and Technical Education Center
Ellicottville Career and Technical Education Center
Olean Career and Technical Education Center
Our goal is to provide our students with the skills required to go on to post secondary institutions, apprentice training, or the entry level welding workforce.
Students at our centers interact with students from all of our component schools. This interaction is a wonderful way to learn the important workplace skills needed to interact in a diverse workplace setting. Our students have the opportunity to compete in several events such as the SkillsUSA competitions held both regionally and statewide. The American Welding Society has also sponsored regional welding competitions along with various corporate sponsors. We tour several area colleges and industrial sites throughout the program. We incorporate “real world” projects into our programs to provide services for many community groups in the area. Some past projects include projects for Olean Parks Department, Rotary Club, Cattaraugus County Sherriff’s Department, as well as private individuals. Students are required to create a professional portfolio showcasing their knowledge and experiences
Assessments in the Welding program are set forth by the American Welding Society’s (AWS) Schools Excelling through National Skill Standards Education (S.E.N.S.E.)
Level I program.
Portfolio review
American Welding Society Entry Level I Certification
May earn New York State Technical Endorsement on high school diploma
Dresser – Rand Corporation, Dresser Industries, Allegany-Bradford Corp., Pierce Metal Fabricators, Billings Sheet Metal, Alstom Industries, Aronson Koike, API Airtech, Portville Truck, International Brotherhood Of Boilermakers Union Local #7, Union Sheet Metal Workers Local #71, International Union Of Elevator Constructors Local #14, International Association Of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Ironworkers Local #6, U.A. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local #22.
Plumber, pipefitter or steamfitter $48,000
Structural worker $40,000
Welder, cutter, solderer and brazer $45,000
Sheet-metal workers $67,500
Welder, cutter, solderer and brazer aide $29,000
Boilermaker $47,000
Structural metal fabricator and fitter $43,500
Welding technician $55,000
Materials engineer/Welding engineer $84,000
Welding inspector $50,000
Welding sales representative $50,000
Source: Monster.com salary wizard
Mechanical Drawing or CAD, Chemistry, Physics, Math, ELA, Communication Skills
Earn 7 credits including:
1 Specialized Math
1 Integrated ELA
1 Integrated Science
| Jamestown Community College | 6 credits total; 3 credits each for: WLD 1200 (Safety and Cutting Processes) WLD 1350 (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) (Credit granted through JCC "College Connections"program; students must meet JCC minimum requirements) |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology | Advanced placement based on competency assessment form |
| Triangle Tech. | Credit granted for courses for which student passes advanced standing tests with grade of 75 or better |
Check back for samples of student work.