Available at: Swinton Campus
Programme Overview: This comprehensive welding program covers multiple welding processes and prepares skilled welders for various industrial applications, emphasizing safety, quality, and precision.
Duration: 3 Years | Credits: 373 |SAQA ID: 94100
What You'll Learn
- Manual Metal Arc (MMA) welding process
- Metal Inert Gas/Metal Active Gas/Flux Cored Arc (MIG/MAG/FCAW) welding processes
- Gas welding and cutting techniques
- Welding codes, standards and parameters
- Quality control and weld inspection
- Occupational safety and health practices
Minimum Entry Requirements
- NQF Level 1, Grade 09 or equivalent, with Mathematics (the college may recognise RPL against the entry requirements)
- Physical fitness and good hand-eye coordination
- Ability to work in various environmental conditions
Career Opportunities
- Construction industry
- Pipeline construction
- Automotive manufacturing
- Welder Fabricator
- Pipe Welder
- Structural Welder
- Welding Technician
- Welding Inspector
- Welding Supervisor
- Maintenance Welder
- Freelance welding services
Certification: QCTO Occupational Certificate with Red Seal Trade Test pathway upon successful completion of External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA)
Financial Aid: NSFAS funding available for qualifying students.
Knowledge Modules
- Introduction to the welding trade
- Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental Protection
- Welding schematics, calculations, welds and welded joints
- Weld imperfections
- Cutting and gouging
- Welding consumable classification and handling
- Metals and weldability of metals
- Fusion welding
- Arc welding
- Gas welding and cutting
- Welding codes, standards and parameters
- Shrinkage, residual stress and distortion
- Manual Metal Arc, MMA welding process
- The Metal Inert Gas/Metal Active Gas/Flux Cored Arc, MIG/MAG/FCAW welding process
- Manual Metal Arc, MMA welding process
- Welding inspection and quality
Total number of Credits for the Knowledge Modules: 81.
Practical Skills Modules
- Fabricate simple components or work pieces
- Cut, gouge and gas weld material manually
- Perform fillet welds using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform fillet welds using the Gas Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform fillet welds using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process
- Perform plate butt welds using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform plate butt welds using the Gas Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform plate butt welds using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process
- Perform pipe welds using the Shielded Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform pipe welds using the Gas Metal Arc Welding process
- Perform pipe welds using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process
Total number of credits for the Practical Skills Modules: 140.
Work Experience Modules
- Cut and gouge a range of materials in the workplace
- Produce a range of fillet welds using various welding processes in a workplace
- Care for, control and handle consumables and materials in a workshop
- Produce a range of plate welds using various welding processes in a workplace
- Team work, communication and reporting in the workplace
- Produce a range of pipe welds using various welding processes in a workplace
Total credits for the Work Experience Modules: 152. << Back |
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