San Juan College in New Mexico offers a four-semester program to receive an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree for Welding and Metal Fabrication. Students learn how to weld and fabricate steel plates and pipes, along with reading blueprints. The course is about 75 percent hands-on and 25 percent classroom. The curriculum includes courses in math, metallurgy drafting, oxyacetylene, stick electrode, Metal Inert Gas (MIG) and Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG).
Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon, offers a two-year AAS degree in Welding Technology with emphasis on welding and basic fabrication.
They offer hands-on training in SMAW (shielded metal arc welding), GTAW (gas tungsten arc welding), PAC (plasma-arc cutting), GMAW (gas metal arc welding), FCAW (flux-cored arc welding), OAW (oxyacetylene welding), OAC (oxyacetylene cutting) and basic fabrication. Classroom courses are in blueprint reading, welding principles, structural steel codes, welding inspection, quality control and non-destructive testing I and II.
American River College in Sacramento, California, offer an AAS degree in Welding Technology and two separate certificate programs. It is an accredited testing facility for the American Welding Society. American River provides training in SMAW, GTAW, GMAW, FCAW, Oxyfuel cutting, and Plasma Arc cutting. It also offers two separate courses on fabrication.
College of Eastern Utah located in Price is part of the Utah Sate University system. This college offers a certificate program, an AAS degree and an Associates of Science (AS) degree in Welding Technology. Courses offered include instruction in metal fabrication, reading blueprints, inspections and metallurgy along with training in the different welding techniques, SMAW, GMAW, FCAW and GTAW.