2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

WLD 250 - Welded Metal Fabrication


Description: Metal used in manufacturing fabrication and welding techniques. Emphasis on project planning, layout and blueprint reading.

Prerequisites: WLD 113  or WLD 145  or WLD 200  or WLD 210  or instructor permission.

Credits: 4
Lecture: 2
Lab: 6

Course Content:
  1. Fabrication safety and equipment
  2. Metal shapes and sizes
  3. Designing blueprints
  4. Ordering steel from a drawing
  5. Layout and cutting of steel
  6. Use of fabrication equipment
  7. Square and tack welding
  8. Distortion control
  9. Applying finishes to metal 
  10. Robotic welding

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain and use metal fabrication safety procedures. (1)
  2. Identify different structural shapes, sizes and types of metal. (2)
  3. Design quality blueprints of welded metal fabrications. (3)
  4. Use layout tools and fabrication equipment. (1, 5-9)
  5. Order, layout, and fabricate material as required by blueprints. (4-9) 
  6. Demonstrate the use of a robotic welder. (10)