Few career choices offer such vast options for employment and personal development as welding. From industry production lines, to the laboratory, to research and development, to national defense, to sales and repair, the varied welding industry impacts virtually every industry on the globe. From deep in the oceans to high above the planet, there is a position within the welding industry for ambitious, smart professionals ready to excel and achieve new heights!

Employment in the Welding Industry:  This course is designed to help students identify career paths and employment opportunities.  Included is a resume and interviewing workshop to help students design and develop a professional resume which shows their experiences and training.  The resume is then used for interviews as students begin their job search.  Additionally, job seeking plans are discussed. 

Beginning Arc Welding: This course is designed as a beginning course in a comprehensive welding program. The emphasis is on types of welding, kinds of machines, differences in current, and types of electrodes used in the welding process.

Flat and Horizontal Arc Welding:  This course is designed as an introduction to and basic techniques on arc welding in the horizontal position. The basic techniques in arc welding include how to set current and fine settings on power sources. Emphasis is also on striking the arc and motions to be used in running the bead. 
Vertical Arc Welding:  This course is designed as an introduction to and basic techniques on arc welding in the vertical position.  Included are all necessary technical knowledge and skills, motions used and individual practice in vertical welding.

Beginning Oxygen Acetylene Welding:  This course is designed to cover the process by which the oxyacetylene flame is used to heat metal to the melting point.  Included are burning, flame cutting or flame machining.

Brazing and Horizontal Oxygen-Acetylene Welding:  This course is designed as an introduction to oxy-acetylene welding and brazing techniques in the horizontal position.

Open Butt Plate Oxygen-Acetylene Welding:  This course is designed with the emphasis on open butt plate welding. The student learns to cope with the problems of metal expansion and contraction, which can cause serious distortion in the weld.

Heliarc Welding - Mild Steel:  This course is designed as a beginning course in tungsten-inert gas welding which emphasizes fundamentals of the process, equipment and techniques involved. 

Heliarc Welding –Aluminum:  This course is designed as a beginning course in the use of the tungsten-inert gas process of welding aluminum and its weldable alloys.

For additional information,
email Kathy at kdolosic@jjc.edu or call (815) 280-1429.