Beginning students may take any of the first three classes listed below
These classes have no prerequisite requirements.

Weld 100 - Welding Fundamentals (2.5 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None - This class may be taken by all students, no experience is necessary.
This class may be taken concurrently with Weld 120 during the same semester.
This class lets the student survey the various welding processes.
Class meets 1 day per week for 4 hours per day.
- Students will learn the basic welding skills with 4 of the most popular arc welding processes.
- Processes include Arc Welding (SMAW), Mig (GMAW), Tig (GTAW), and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW) that will be welded in the flat and horizontal positions.
- Students will perform cutting or gouging utilizing the Carbon Arc, Plasma Arc and Oxyfuel processes.
- Students will receive demonstrations and technical lectures on safety and proper operational procedures.
- Students will weld daily projects using multiple welding processes.

Weld 120 - Beginning Arc Welding (5 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None. This class may be taken by all beginning students.
This class may be taken concurrently with Weld 100.
Class meets 2 days per week for 4 hours per day.
- This class is the first of 3 classes to become a certified welder.
- Students will learn how to weld using the following processes: (SMAW, GMAW, and FCAW).
- Students will learn how to weld utilizing various electrodes in multiple positions.
- Students will perform cutting or gouging utilizing the Carbon Arc, Plasma Arc and Oxyfuel processes.
- Students will receive demonstrations and technical lectures on safety and proper operational procedures.

Weld 130 - Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Fundamentals (5 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None. This class may be taken by all students, regardless of their welding experience.
This class meets 2 days per week for 4 hours per day.
- GTAW is also known as TIG: Tungsten Inert Gas Welding.
- This welding process is commonly used to weld things like: (Aluminum mountain bikes, Chromoly race car frames, and aerospace componenents used to build Jet Airplanes, Helicopters and Rockets).
- Students will learn how to program sophisticated computerized welding equipment and weld on the following metals: (Aluminum, Carbon Steel, Chromalloy, and Stainless Steel).
- Students will receive technical lectures on all aspects of the GTAW process including: (Types of GTAW equipment, inert gasses, tungstens, filler metals, heat treatment of metals, fabrication techniques, welding of various alloys, quality control, and inspection methods).
- Students can obtain an AWS Aluminum Welding Certification at the end of the semester.

Weld 39 - Welding Shop Math (2 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None.
Recommendation # 1: It is highly recommended that students successfully complete Weld 100 or Weld 120 before taking Weld 39.
Recommendation # 2: It is also recommended this class be taken concurrently with Weld 50.
Class meets 1 day per week for 2 hours per day.
- This class is designed to familiarize the student with the shop math typical to the welding industry.
- This class was also designed to prepare students to successfully pass the math competency tests required to join most welding unions and municipalities.
- Emphasis will be placed on the practical applications of measuring, measuring instruments, area, volume, fractions, decimals, and the metric system.
- Students will learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions
- Students will work on various shop projects which involve: bill of materials, project weights, and the bidding & estimating of job specifications.

Weld 50 - Blueprint Reading for the Welding Trades (3 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None.
Recommendation # 1: It is highly recommended that students successfully complete Weld 100 or Weld 120 before taking Weld 50.
Recommendation # 2: It is also recommended this class be taken concurrently with Weld 39.
Class meets 1 day per week for 3 hours per day.
- This class is designed to familiarize the student with typical structural steel shop drawings and schematics used within the welding industry.
- Students will learn basic orthographic projection, the alphabet of lines, and isometric projection.
- Students will learn how to sketch and interpret an isometric view into orthographic projection.
- Students will learn how to interpret structural steel materials used on a bill of material.
- Students will learn how to interpret welding symbols used on blueprints.

Weld 60 - Safety and the Welding Environment (1 Unit - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None.
Class meets 1 day per week for 1 hour per day.
- This class is designed to familiarize the student with the safety and health systems in various workplaces in the welding industry.
- The following safety topics will be discussed: personal protective equipment, fire prevention, confined spaces, hazardous materials (USA), electrical safety, safe working surfaces, and fall protection.
- This class provides the safety knowledge needed to ensure a safe accident free career.
- This class is a must for people that want to advance into supervision and or management.

NOTE: All classes listed below have prerequisite requirements

Weld 200 - Intermediate Arc Welding (4 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: Weld 120 (students must successfully complete Weld 120 before taking this class)
Class meets 2 days per week for 4 hours per day.
- This is the second class of 3 needed `to become a certified welder.
- Emphasis is placed on welding in the vertical and overhead positions using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW) processes.
- Students will improve their skills in the Carbon Arc, Plasma Arc, and Oxyfuel processes.
- Students will receive technical lectures on welding symbols, joint design and welding inspection.

Weld 210L - Arc Welding Applications (2 Units - Repeatability - 2 times)
Prerequisite: Weld 200 (students must successfully complete Weld 200 before taking Weld 210L)
Class meets 2 days per week for 3 hours per day (6 hours of lab time only).
- This is the last of 3 classes needed to become a certified welder.
- This advanced welding course is designed to prepare students to pass the AWS Structural Steel Welding certification.
- Students can obtain certifications in both the SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW) processes.
- Students will learn how to weld vee-grooves in the 3G and 4G positions with E7018 electrodes in preparation for AWS Structural Steel Certification with the SMAW (manual) process
- Students will learn how to weld vee-grooves in the 3G and 4G positions with NR232 wire in preparation for AWS Structural Steel Certification with the FCAW (semi-auto) process.

Weld 220 - Certification and Licensing for Welders (2 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: None. This class may be taken concurrently with Weld 210L.
Recommendation # 1: Students must successfully complete Weld 200 before taking Weld 220.
Recommendation # 2: Students transferring from other welding schools must be highly skilled in welding out of position groove welds before taking Weld 220.
Class meets 2 days per week for 1 hour per day (night class schedule).
Class meets 1 day per week for 2 hours per day (day class schedule).
- This is a technical lecture only course for the advanced welding student.
- Emphasis will be placed on welding symbols, joint design, electrode identification, and AWS structural code specifications necessary to obtain the L.A. City License and Certification.

Weld 170 - Structural Fabrication (2 Units - Repeatability - 1 time)
Prerequisite: Weld 120 (students must successfully complete Weld 120 before taking Weld 170)
Recommendations: Weld 39 and Weld 50.
Class hours: Class meets 1 day per week for 4 hours.
- This is a course designed to develop the student welder's structural fabrication techniques on real and/or simulated structural fabrication construction projects.
- Emphasis will be placed on the safe operation of industrial fabrication equipment.
- Equipment will include: hydraulic shears and iron workers, various metal cutting saws, and bending and rolling fabrication equipment.
- Students will learn how to miter and cope angle, channel, box tubing, and wide flange beams using industrial fabrication shop equipment.
- This is a unique course only offered at Cerritos College

Weld 270 Structural Fabrications and Layout (3 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: Weld 170 (students must successfully complete Weld 170 before taking Weld 270)
Recommendations: Weld 39 and Weld 50.
- This advanced course is designed to further develop layout skills on structural plate, beams, channel, and angle iron.
- Students will work from blueprints and utilize measuring tools and fabrication equipment to build projects typically found in the welding industry.
- Students will learn fabrication techniques utilizing the following equipment: hydraulic shears, iron workers, magnetic drills, various metal cutting saws, clamps, and fixtures.
- Students will learn how to use the following fabrication equipment: tube benders, pipe benders, and rolling equipment required to build laboratory fabrication projects.
- Students will develop a "teamwork" concept necessary for a safe and successful project.
- This is a unique course only offered at Cerritos College.

Weld 53 - Pipe Layout (2 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite: Weld 120 (students must successfully complete Weld 120 before taking this class)
Class meets 1 day per week for 4 hours.
- This course is designed to teach various techniques and methods used to layout piping and fittings used within the pipe welding industry.
- Emphasis will be placed on practical techniques of pipe layout, terminology, and joint designs.
- Students will learn proper techniques to quarter, miter, bevel, and prepare piping.
- Students will learn how to properly use industry tooling and equipment such as tri-squares, two hole pins, centering heads, contour markers, and pipe wraps.
- Students will learn how to layout and fit-up piping to various flanges, and prefabricated fittings.
- Students will receive technical lectures, safety, and operational procedures for pipe industry equipment.
- This is a unique course only offered at Cerritos College.

Weld 51L - Advanced Arc Welding Specialty Lab (1 Unit - Repeatability - 3 times)
Prerequisite: Weld 120 (Students must successfully complete Weld 120 before taking Weld 51L)
Class meets 1 day per week for 3 hours.
- This is an advanced welding course designed to further develop the students welding skills.
- Students will focus on strengthening their welding skills using SMAW, FCAW, and GMAW processes for structural welding.
- Students in this laboratory only class will sign an educational contract and will work on specific individual goals.

Weld 52 - Pipe Welding Fundamentals (4 Units - Repeatability - 0)
Prerequisite # 1: Weld 210L (Students must successfully complete Weld 210L before taking Weld 52) Prerequisite # 2: Students must be SMAW Structural Steel Certified before taking Weld 52.
Class meets 2 days per week for 4 hours per day.
- This advanced welding course is designed to develop welding skills and techniques required to weld on pipe using the SMAW process.
- Students will learn the proper joint preparation and alignment techniques for pipe joints.
- Students will learn how to use manual and motorized bevellers using the oxyfuel process.
- Emphasis will be placed on open root vee-groove joints in the vertical, horizontal, overhead, and flat positions on 5/16" plate.
- Students will learn how to weld socket joints in the 1F, 2F, 4F, and 5F positions using E7018 electrodes.
- Students will weld 6" schedule 40 pipe joints in the 1G, 2G positions.

Weld 54L - Advanced Pipe Welding (2 Units - Repeatability - 1 time)
Prerequisite: Weld 52 (Students must successfully complete Weld 52 before taking Weld 54)
Class meets 2 days per week for 3 hours per day.
- This course is designed to further develop previously acquired pipe welding skills to prepare students to pass the pipe welding certification test.
- Students will learn how to weld 6" schedule 40 pipes in the 2G and 5G positions.
- Students will weld socket joints in the 1F, 2F, 4F and 5F positions using E7018 electrodes.
- Students will weld pipe in the 6G position, in preparation for the ASME pipe certification test.
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Weld 240L - Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (2 Units - Repeatability - 1 time)
Prerequisite: Weld 130 (Students must successfully complete Weld 130 before taking Weld 240)
Class meets 2 days per week for 3 hours per day.
- This advanced laboratory only class is designed to further develop GTAW skills required to weld on Aluminum, Carbon Steel, Chromoly, and Stainless Steel.
- Students will learn how to weld on round tubing, square tubing, and various thicknesses of sheet metals.
- Students will learn how to weld a variety of joint designs in multiple welding positions.
- Students can obtain an AWS Stainless Steel Certification at the end of the semester.

Weld 250L - Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Applications (2 Units - Repeatability - 1 time)
Prerequisite: Weld 240 (Students must successfully complete Weld 240 before taking Weld 250)
Class meets 2 days per week for 3 hours per day.
- This advanced laboratory only class is designed to further develop GTAW skills required to weld on thin gauge Aluminum, Carbon Steel, Chromoly, and Stainless Steel.
- Students will learn advanced welding techniques while utilizing various welding jigs, fixtures, and motorized positioners.
- Students will prepare for entry level Aerospace welding certification testing.
- Students can obtain an AWS Chromoly Certification at the end of the semester.