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2024-2025 Catalog

Welding Technology - Structural (WELSO)

Location(s): South Omaha Campus, Fremont Area Center

Award: Certificate of Achievement
Pathway to Associate Degree: Welding Technology (WEAAS)

This certificate of achievement provides students with basic welding skills needed to do structural welding either in construction (e.g., as an ironworker) or as a structural steel fabricator. Students completing the program are exposed to print reading with special focus on interpreting welding symbols as well as skill training in oxy-fuel cutting, shielded metal arc welding (stick), gas metal arc welding (MIG), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), and gas tungsten arc welding (TIG).

 

Graduation Requirements
To earn this degree, a student must complete all required courses.
Total credit hours required: 55.5

 

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Major Requirements - 21.0 credits

Option Requirements - 15.0 credits

Electives Requirements - 6.0 credits

Select 6.0 credit hours from the following:

Certificate of Achievement General Education Requirements - 13.5 credits

The following are General Education requirements for a Certificate of Achievement. Students may not use the same course to satisfy more than one degree requirement.

Communication

1 Course     4.5 credit hrs.

Select 1 Level I course from the list of Communication General Education courses in the current course catalog.

Quantitative/Numeracy

1 Course     4.5 - 5.0 credit hrs. 

Please check your degree program for recommended Math course.

Select 1 college level math course from the list of General Education math courses in the current course catalog.

*Based on the Math course you select, pre-requisites may be required.

Critical Thinking/Creativity & Social/Cultural Awareness

1 Course     4.5 credit hrs.

Select 1course from the list of Humanities or Social Sciences General Education course options in the current course catalog. 

       OR