VOB 165 - Career Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick)

This course is designed to enable the student to learn safety, material and equipment setup, and basic techniques for oxy-fuel, gas metal arc (MIG), gas tungsten arc (TIG), and shielded metal arc (Stick) welding. Students will also explore basic metallurgy, welding codes, inspection, and symbols. Students will then advance their skills in the Shielded Metal Arc (Stick) process. Emphasis will be placed on the student’s ability to prepare material and perform welding of fillet and groove welds in carbon steel using E7018 electrodes in all positions. Practice is geared towards Structural Welding Code vertical and overhead tests. Topics to be covered include welding safety, cutting operations, operating oxy-fuel and cutting equipment, basic welding symbols and codes, common alloy metallurgy, material and machine setup, welding inspection methods, horizontal and vertical fillet welds, and flat and vertical groove welds.

Course Objectives:

1. understand and practice safety in all aspects of welding and cutting operations;

2. set-up and operate Oxy-Fuel equipment to perform groove and fillet welds in the flat and horizontal positions;

3. perform cutting of steel, aluminum and stainless steel with Oxy-Fuel and Plasma cutting equipment;

4. perform groove and fillets welds on carbon steel in the flat and horizontal positions with: MIG, TIG, and Stick welding;

5. read and interpret basic welding symbols and understanding welding codes;

6. understand the basics of Visual, Dye Penetrant, Mag Particle, Ultrasonic and Radiographic welding inspection methods;

7. understand the metallurgy of common alloys;

8. perform safety inspection of equipment and accessories;

9. set up and prepare material for Stick welding and adjust machine to correct polarity and amperage setting;

10. make fillet and groove welds in all positions on carbon steel material; and

11. perform AWS D1.1, Structural Welding Code-Steel welder certification test coupons in 3G & 4G positions on 3/8” plate.