Inspection and Pipe Welding

Effective: Fall 2020
Certificate of Proficiency Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description
Our Inspection and Pipe Welding Certificate will prepare you to fabricate and install piping systems such as those found in hospitals, power plants, refineries, food processing, and server facilities. Instruction in applicable welding codes and hands-on techniques.

What can I do with this major?
Pipe welders are in high demand across industries including but not limited to: hospitals, power plants, refineries, food processing, and server facilities

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Industrial Technology & Automotive

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= Critical Course = Prerequisite for Other Courses = Prerequisite Required = Required for Major GE = General Education

This certificate program is for students at the advanced welding level (i.e. competent in both vertical and overhead welding with both SMAW and GTAW). If you are not already a Chabot College Welding student, please contact the Welding faculty to confirm your level of preparation. 

Semester 1

8 units

WELD 69A
Fabrication and Installing Piping Systems1

3 units
Theory and practical application of pipe joint preparation and design, API (American Petroleum Institute) and AWS (American Welding Society) welding codes specification for pipe and pipe fittings, analysis of joint configuration, plasma and flame cutting of pipes, wire and electrodes selections, pipe welding blue print and welding symbols, SMAW, GMAW, and GTAW of pipe joints, non-destructive and destructive test and qualitative concepts of evaluation.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: WELD 64B

WELD 64B
Advanced Arc, Flux-Core Welding and Blueprint Reading

3 units
Advanced theory and practical application of: Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) and Flux-Core Arc Welding (FCAW) in 3G, 4G, 3F, and 4F positions, plasma, carbon arc and flame cutting, American Welding Society (AWS) nomenclature and codes, welding metalurgical transformations, welding discontinuities and defects, welding electrodes and wire selection, hazardous materials regulation, general shop equipment usage, shop safety, and blueprint reading (as applied in manufacturing industry).
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: WELD 64A
    2. or
  2. Strongly Recommended: WELD 70
Terms Offered: Fall, Spring

WELD 66
Welding Inspection and Testing

2 units
Theory and practical application of inspection testing using destructive and non-destructive methods (dye penetration method, magnetic particle, radiographic, ultrasonic, and metallographic inspection), AWS (American Welding Society) welding codes and specification, analysis of joint configuration, wire and electrodes selections, tensile strength, bend and hardness testing.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: WELD 65B
    2. or
  2. Strongly Recommended: INDT 74
Terms Offered: Fall
  • 1 - prerequisite course is WELD 64B- check with Welding faculty if you have not completed this course.

Semester 2

6 units

WELD 65B
Advanced TIG, MIG, and Blueprint Reading

3 units
Advanced theory and skill development of GTAW and GMAW processes with applications including ferrous and non-ferrous metals and their alloys in the both vertical and overhead positions according to AWS codes and standards, advanced blueprint reading and fitting, oxyacetylene brazing, flame and plasma cutting, electrodes and wire selection, advanced blueprint reading and practical interpretation of welding symbols, proper and safe use of shop and welding equipment, hazardous material regulations.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: WELD 65A
    2. and
  2. Strongly Recommended: WELD 70

WELD 69B
Advanced Pipe Welding

3 units
Advanced theory and practical applications of pipe joint preparation and design, API (American Petroleum Institute) and AWS (American Welding Society) welding codes specifications for pipe and pipe fittings, geometric curve design for branched joint of piping systems, wire and electrodes selections, advanced welding blue print and pipe welding symbols, SMAW, GMAW, and GTAW of pipe joints, metallurgical transformation of weld Heat Affected Area (HAA), welding discontinuities and defects, destructive and non-destructive testing, and methods of inspection and testing.
Course Details:
  1. Prerequisite: WELD 69A

Total Units: 14 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.