WELD 1030 Syllabus

Subject Code

WELD

Course Number

1030

Course Title

Blueprint Reading for Welding Technology

Prerequisites

Corequisites

WELD 1000

Terms Offered

Offered Fall

Credit Hours

(2-3-3)

Course Description

This course introduces the knowledge and skills necessary for reading welding and related blueprints and sketches. Instructors place emphasis on identifying types of welds and the associated abbreviations and symbols. Students must pay a $20 supply fee when registering for this course.

Course Outcomes

Basic Lines, Sketching and Sectional Views
Order         Description
   1                Identify basic lines used in welding blueprints.
   2                Demonstrate how and why sketching is important.
   3                Identify and define the basic multi-view prints.
   4                Identify and define a sectional view.

Detailed Specifications and Isometrics
Order           Description
   1                Relate and identify design sizes from prints to job.
   2                Describe the shape of a part from the information given in the detail drawing.
   3                Explain how to assemble the parts for a finished object from information given on the assembly
                     drawing.
   4                Describe an isometric drawing and relate to the actual object.

Structural Shapes and Joint Design
Order Description

1 List and identify standard structural steel shapes.
2 List and identify standard structural steel basic joint designs.

Welding Symbols and Abbreviations
Order          Description
   1               Differentiate between preferred and non-preferred elements.
   2               Define a multiple weld.
   3               Identify and define multiple reference line welding abbreviations.
   4               Describe a properly finished weld.
   5               Describe how a dimension into a welding blueprint.

Industry Welds and Fabrication
Order          Description
   1               Identify and describe the purpose of a fillet weld.
   2               Describe the terms pitch, intermittent, contour, and finish as they apply to fillet welds.
   3               Identify a groove weld and describe its preparation size, root opening, angle, contour, and finish.
   4               Identify backing and melt-thru welds.
   5               Describe proper length, width, direction height of surface welds.

Order          Description
   1               Creatively produce presentation/working drawing using drafting standards.
   2               Prepare drawings with appropriate characteristics for output.