Welding Technology
Enjoy a career in a field with growing job demand, higher-than-average starting pay, and good benefits.
Students in the Welding Technology program are trained in international standards set by the American Welding Society, using modern equipment. Students gain hands-on experience through the welding lab, graduating with practical and theoretical experience in both structural and pipe welding. Classes teach students the weldability of metals and alloys, blueprint reading, mathematics, and metallurgy.
Participants will come away with knowledge and skills in welding processes including:
- Shielded metal arc welding
- Gas metal arc welding
- Flux cored arc welding
- Gas tungsten arc welding
- Oxy-acetylene cutting
- Brazing
- Use of plasma arc cutting equipment
Aptitudes
This program has physical requirements that may affect the student’s ability to perform in this field. These requirements can be found on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website or at O-Net OnLine.
Related Careers
- Welder
- Fabricated metal product manufacturing
- Specialty trade contractor
- Repair and maintenance
- Machinery manufacturing
Career data information is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
"When I came to LC State, the focus is on how to make everything perfect and do it any day of the week no matter the conditions. So I guess that degree of fine-tuning was not what I had expected. I was a bit blown away by that. Yet as crazy as it sounds, I can go into the shop right now and perform any weld with any precision with any metal and any process that you like and could probably pass the bend test, just because of what I have been taught here.” - Cisco Perez ’20
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Technical & Industrial
Schweitzer Career & Technical Education Center 216
2947 Cecil Andrus Way
Lewiston, ID 83501