I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Advanced Metal Fabrication

2. Course Prefix & Number:
WELD 1150

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 4

Lecture Hours: 1

Lab Hours: 6

4. Course Description:

Students will practice and apply skills attained in math, electronics, welding, fabrication, metallurgy, and blueprint reading classes in order to construct a final project. Through this immersion, work-simulated environment, students will be assigned a project and independently build that project from planning to final assessment.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Welding, AAS Degree
Welding, Diploma

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Analyze and follow a sequence of operations	Identify the proper steps utilized in constructing from a print.
Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations	Compare and contrast print design to actual design to insure weldment strength and durability.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Read and understand blueprints as they pertain to class projects;
• List and prioritize benefits and liabilities of various materials as related to project properties;
• Estimate costs and benefits for materials as related to fabrication task;
• Identify and select materials based on needs for a specific task and generate a Bill of Materials (BOM);
• Identify potential problems and determine most efficient process for avoiding them;
• Apply available resources (such as equipment and technical expertise) to issues that arise during the fabrication process;
• Calculate consumable costs such as grinding abrasives, welding wire, and tips, etc.;
• Apply volume formulae to determine weight of products for fabrication;
• Determine weight distribution of project materials and finished project for loading, transportation, etc.;
• Read and import electronic part file and produce layout that best uses materials;
• Load and successfully transfer electronic layout file to CNC cutting software;
• Set-up and test CNC machine cutting program and, when successful, execute part run; and
• Measure finished project against original specifications and assess and address quality control issues.

 

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Selecting a project
2. Selecting the proper material
3. Selecting the proper consumable material
4. Selecting the proper equipment
5. Calculating a bill of material
6. Calculating total weight of a project
7. Layout and fabrication
• Layout/measure with appropriate technology
• Cut
• Shape
• Bend
• Inspect
• Tack/fit up
• Weld
• Finish/clean
• Inspect
• Identify areas in need of change or updating
• Address areas of reengineering
• Final product inspection

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions

1. Project selection
• Market research
2. Calculate bill of materials
• Select structural steel
• Select plate steel
3. Calculate total cost
• Steel cost
• Consumable cost
• Labor cost
• Overhead (shop apace, electricity)
4. Select proper equipment
• Select processes (SMAW, GMAW, GTAW, OAW)
5. Select/setup fabrication area
6. Design/construct fixtures for fabrication
7. Measure/layout material
8. Inspect
9. Prepare material for fabrication with appropriate technolgy
• Cut
• Bend
• Shape
10. Inspect/clean
11. Pre weld assembly (fit up)
• Tack
• Inspect
12. Weld
• Finish/clean
• Identify areas of need or reengineering
• Address areas of redesign or reengineering
• Final weld and inspection