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Program Educational Objectives

Program Educational Objectives describe the career and professional accomplishments that graduates, after several years of experience, are prepared to achieve.

The educational objectives of the Welding Technology program are:

  1. Graduates will be well versed in both traditional welding technologies, including all major arc welding processes and the newest advancements in CNC and fabrication equipment. Math and science will be cornerstones for experimenting, testing, data analysis and problem solving with commitment to quality, timeliness, and continuous improvement.
  2. Interpersonal Skills – Graduates will be effective in their communication to ensure that they are relaying a clear message, will respect the viewpoints of others, and will be effective listeners when working as a member of a team.
  3. Professionalism – Graduates will display a strong work ethic and an attention to detail. In addition, graduates will exhibit personal and professional growth through their commitment to lifelong learning, as evidenced by professional society certification(s) and their ability to lead within a team.
  4. Awareness of Societal Impact – Graduates will be aware that their workplace decisions will impact the global community. With an ethical approach to their decision making, our graduates will be empathetic to others and contribute to the greater global good. Graduates will also recognize that a properly set-up process, procedure and technique produces quality welds, and quality welds keep people safe.
  5. Leadership Abilities – Graduates will understand the role of the worker and lead by example. They will be well versed in how to be a productive member of a team and work towards helping others understand the important details of the welding processes. Graduates will be comfortable teaching others and presenting welding and fabrication related information.
  6. Passion for the Trade – Graduates will be actively involved in welding technology and fabrication, and will find an area of expertise related to: assembly design; material weldability; welding procedure specification execution; welding process selection and implementation; training of welders; destructive and non-destructive examination; or welding automation and offline-programming.

Program Goals/Student Outcomes

Program Goals

A graduate of this major should be able to
  • apply knowledge of industrial safety standards to both field and factory environments.
  • apply knowledge, techniques, and skills of an entry-level welder using common welding processes from various levels of automation and sources of energy while distinguishing between the different types of welding power source technology and their characteristics, uses, and limitations.
  • apply knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve well-defined engineering problems appropriate to the welding discipline.
  • conduct visual, destructive, and non-destructive testing methods in order to determine weld integrity and physical and mechanical properties of metals as related to weldability, while ensuring conformance to industry established codes and customer requirements.
  • design solutions for well-defined technical problems and assist the engineering design of systems, components, or processes appropriate to the welding discipline.
  • construct weldments from sketches, blueprints, or oral instructions and conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments to analyze and interpret results.
  • apply written, oral, and graphical communication in well-defined technical and non-technical environments, and an ability to identify and use appropriate literature.

ABET Enrollment and Graduation Data

Academic YearFull-time enrollmentPart-time enrollmentGraduates
2023/24105753
2022/23103860
2021/2296342
2020/21100649
2019/2098537
2018/191021136
2017/18132728
2016/17127829
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