Course Description: Job/site safety and precautions for job/site hazards; uses of personal protective equipment (PPE); safety equipment and procedures related to safe work practices and environment; fire prevention and protection techniques; and Hazardous Communications (HazCom) including Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: McPherson area high school & post-secondary students enrolled in the Industrial Mechanical Maintenance/Industrial Electrical Technology program ONLY.
Course Description: Introduction to equipment, procedures and safety practices used in cutting steel with oxy-fuel equipment, as well as shielded metal arc welding, gas-tungsten arc welding and gas metal arc welding.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This class requires basic tools and proper protective equipment for welding. McPherson High School students only. No books required.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: This class requires basic tools and proper protective equipment for welding. McPherson High School students only. No books required.
Course Description: Job/site safety and precautions for job/site hazards; uses of personal protective equipment (PPE); safety equipment and procedures related to safe work practices and environment; fire prevention and protection techniques; and Hazardous Communications (HazCom) including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only.
Course Description: Identification of the alphabet of lines, common views, industry related materials, abbreviations, American Welding Society (AWS) welding symbols and International Organization Standardization (ISO) welding symbols; interpretation of title block, bill of materials, revision history and isometric shapes to sketch blueprints using orthographic projection practices; application of mathematical equations and basic measuring tools used in welding blueprints.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School students only. No books required.
Course Description: Through classroom and/or lab/shop learning and assessment activities, students in this course will: describe the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process (SMAW); demonstrate the safe and correct set up of
the SMAW workstation; associate SMAW electrode classifications with base metals and joint criteria; demonstrate proper electrode selection and use based on metal types and thicknesses; build pads of
weld beads with selected electrodes in the flat position; build pads of weld beads with selected electrodes in the horizontal position; perform basic SMAW welds on selected weld joints; and perform visual inspection of welds.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: ALSO meets Mondays & Thursdays from Dec 4 - 18, McPherson High School Students only, no books required.
Course Description: Types of mechanical and thermal cutting equipment and processes used in the welding trade; safe and correct set up, operation and shut down of the Oxy-Fuel Cutting (OFC) workstation, Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC) workstation, and Carbon Arc Cutting with Air (CAC-A) workstations, safe and proper operation of a metal shear, iron worker type equipment, band saw, bench and angle grinders, and inspection of quality and tolerance of cuts according to industry standards.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Notes: McPherson High School Students only. No books required.