501 classroom, 399 lab
Train for a Career as a Welder
Program Description
With UTI’s Welding Technology program, students can gain the training required to pursue a career as an entry-level welder and fabricator. UTI’s program gives students the education and skills required in today’s construction, pipe, pressure vessel, shipbuilding, automotive, and general fabrication industries.
The curriculum has been developed with Lincoln Electric to train students in multiple joint configurations, welding processes, and applications. The welding program is designed to develop students’ welding and fabrication techniques using different types of metal transfer as they become equipped with the basic knowledge and skills used in the construction, pipe, pressure vessel, shipbuilding, automotive, and general fabrication industries. Additionally, students learn how to cut metal using thermal cutting techniques, develop fabricating skills, and learn how to calculate the cost of projects.
Successful graduates should have the skills and knowledge necessary to prepare them to take relevant industry welding tests or American Welding Society (AWS) certifications used in structural, construction and pipe projects. Graduates who successfully complete the program will be able to weld using GMAW, SMAW, GTAW and FCAW welding process and equipment on different materials, giving them a skill set valued and/or required by employers in the construction, pipe, pressure vessel, shipbuilding, automotive, and general fabrication industries.
Program Objective
The objective of UTI’s Welding Technology program is to train students so they are equipped with the basic knowledge and skills required to carry out welding of plate, pipe and sheet metal. The program is designed to prepare students to work as entry-level welders in the construction, pipe, pressure vessel, shipbuilding, automotive, and general fabrication industries.