This 900 hour, one-year certificate program offers students a series of American Welding Society Technical Certificates. Students develop the technical knowledge and trade skills to layout, assemble, and fabricate metal projects. Instruction and assigned tasks familiarize students with metallurgy, plasma arc cutting (PAC), shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), and oxyacetylene welding (OAW) and cutting (OFC). Students also learn the safe use of related hand and power tools, equipment and machines, and fastener systems. Students will demonstrate proficiency with orthographic projections, pattern making and parallel and radical line development. Applied math is taught throughout the program.