Below is a description of each welding course and curriculum elective offered at DSLCC.

DRF 166 Welding Blueprint Reading
This course is a study of the orthographic projection method of representation with multi-views and sketching.  It includes the interpretation of several types of drawings and related, pertinent specifications.  It further involves the study of advanced blueprint reading as applied to the welding industry.

WEL 99 Advanced Welding Techniques
This course is designed to provide the student with individual instruction and adequate lab time to develop welding skills and procedures beyond that of other courses.

WEL 116 Welding I (Oxyacetylene)
Teaches oxygenacetylene welding and cutting including safety of equipment, welding, brazing and soldering procedures and cutting procedures.

WEL 117 Oxyfuel Welding & Cutting
Introduces the history of oxyacetylene welding, principles of welding and cutting, nomenclature of the equipment, assembly of the puddle, running flat beads, butt welding in different positions, brazing, hard and soft soldering.  Discuss procedure in the use of tools and equipment.

WEL 121 Arc Welding
Studies the operation of AC and DC power sources, weld heat, polarities, and electrodes for use in joining various alloys by the SMAW process. Covers welds in different types of joints and different welding positions.

WEL 123 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Basic)
Presents the operation of AC transformers and DA motor generator arc welding sets. Teaches polarities, heats, and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process.  Deals with running beads, butt and fillet welds in all positions, and assessment of weld quality through visual inspection.  Emphasizes safety procedures. 

WEL 124 Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Adv.)
The continuing of the study of the operation of AC transformers and DC motor generator arc welding sets.  Teaches polarities, heats, and electrodes for use in joining various metal alloys by the arc welding process.  Deals with running beads, butt and fillet welds in all position, and assessment of weld quality trough visual inspection.  Emphasizes safety procedures. 

WEL 126 Pipe Welding I
Teaches metal arc welding process, including the welding of pressure piping in the horizontal, vertical and horizontal-fixed positions in accordance with Section IX of the ASME Code.

WEL 127 Pipe Welding II
Provides practice in the welding of pressure piping in the horizontal, vertical and fixed positions.

WEL 130 Inert Gas Welding I
Introduces practical operation in use of inert-gas-shield arc welding and equipment, operations in safety practices in various positions, shielding gases, filler rods, process variations and their applications.  Discusses manual, semiautomatic and automatic welding.

WEL 135 Inert Gas Welding II
Continues practical operations in the uses of inert-gas-shield arc welding.  Discusses equipment, safety operation, welding practice in the various applications, manual and semiautomatic welding.

WEL 141 Welder Qualification Tests I
Studies techniques and practices of testing welded joints through destructive and non-destructive tests, guiding, discoloration heat test, porous examinations, tensile, hammer and free bend tests.  Also studies visual, magnetic and fluorescent tests.

WEL 145 Welding Metallurgy
Studies steel classification, heat treatment procedures, and properties of ferrous and non- ferrous metals.  Discusses techniques and practices of testing welded joints and destructive/nondestructive, visual magnetic and fluorescent testing.

WEL 146 Welding Quality Control
 Teaches techniques and practices of inspection and interpretation of tests and measurements. Includes radiographic tests of joints of unlimited thickness welded in 3G and 4G positions.