Welding
- Associate of Applied Science (AAS)
- 60 credits
- 2 Years
- Delivery Method: On-Campus
Why Study Welding at LSC?
The welding AAS degree is designed to provide an advanced career pathway in manufacturing, specific to the field of welding technology. It will prepare you for employment at an intermediate to advanced welding or fabrication technologist. In the program, you will develop skills used in the welding industry. This program covers GMAW, GTAW, FCAW, SMAW, and OXY/Fuel welding process.
Career Information
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders Set up, operate, or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser-beam machines.
$56K
$27/hr
Median annual salary/wage for
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
in Minnesota
36K
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders are currently employed
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Median Annual Salary/Wage Earnings for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
the United States
$45K
$21/hr
$35K - $63K
$16/hr - $30/hr
Minnesota
$56K
$27/hr
$45K - $79K
$21/hr - $37/hr
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual states, and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available.
Salary data are from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program (www.bls.gov/oes/). Current as of May 2024.
Employment Numbers for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
the United States
Estimated Employment:
35,600
Minnesota
Estimated Employment:
450
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Alternative Job Titles for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Braze Operator
- Certified Welder
- Fabricator
- Finishing Technician (Finishing Tech)
- Laser Operator
- Machine Operator
- Mig Welder
- Spot Welder
- Weld Technician (Weld Tech)
- Welding Operator
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Job Tasks and Activities for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Add chemicals or materials to workpieces or machines to facilitate bonding or to cool workpieces.
- Adjust equipment controls to regulate gas flow.
- Adjust flow of electricity to tools or production equipment.
- Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.
- Anneal finished workpieces to relieve internal stress.
- Apply lubricants or coolants to workpieces.
- Apply solutions to production equipment.
- Assemble machine tools, parts, or fixtures.
- Assemble metal or plastic parts or products.
- Assemble, align, and clamp workpieces into holding fixtures to bond, heat-treat, or solder fabricated metal components.
- Calculate specific material, equipment, or labor requirements for production.
- Clean production equipment.
- Clean, lubricate, maintain, and adjust equipment to maintain efficient operation, using air hoses, cleaning fluids, and hand tools.
- Compute and record settings for new work, applying knowledge of metal properties, principles of welding, and shop mathematics.
- Conduct test runs of production equipment.
- Conduct trial runs before welding, soldering, or brazing, and make necessary adjustments to equipment.
- Correct problems by adjusting controls or by stopping machines and opening holding devices.
- Design tools, fixtures, or other devices for production equipment.
- Devise or build fixtures or jigs used to hold parts in place during welding, brazing, or soldering.
- Direct operational or production activities.
- Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
- Dress electrodes, using tip dressers, files, emery cloths, or dressing wheels.
- Enter commands, instructions, or specifications into equipment.
- Feed materials or products into or through equipment.
- Fill hoppers and position spouts to direct flow of flux or manually brush flux onto seams of workpieces.
- Give directions to other workers regarding machine set-up and use.
- Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production.
- Immerse completed workpieces into water or acid baths to cool and clean components.
- Immerse objects or workpieces in cleaning or coating solutions.
- Inspect, measure, or test completed metal workpieces to ensure conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing devices.
- Lay out parts to prepare for assembly.
- Lay out, fit, or connect parts to be bonded, calculating production measurements, as necessary.
- Load materials into production equipment.
- Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components.
- Lubricate production equipment.
- Maintain production or processing equipment.
- Mark weld points and positions of components on workpieces, using rules, squares, templates, or scribes.
- Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
- Monitor equipment operation to ensure proper functioning.
- Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
- Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.
- Observe meters, gauges, or machine operations to ensure that soldering or brazing processes meet specifications.
- Operate cutting equipment.
- Operate grinding equipment.
- Operate welding equipment.
- Prepare metal surfaces or workpieces, using hand-operated equipment, such as grinders, cutters, or drills.
- Read blueprints, work orders, or production schedules to determine product or job instructions or specifications.
- Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
- Record operational information on specified production reports.
- Record operational or production data.
- Remove completed workpieces or parts from machinery, using hand tools.
- Remove products or workpieces from production equipment.
- Reshape metal workpieces to established specifications.
- Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.
- Select production equipment according to product specifications.
- Select torch tips, alloys, flux, coil, tubing, or wire, according to metal types or thicknesses, data charts, or records.
- Select, position, align, and bolt jigs, holding fixtures, guides, or stops onto machines, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Set dials and timing controls to regulate electrical current, gas flow pressure, heating or cooling cycles, or shut-off.
- Set up, operate, or tend welding machines that join or bond components to fabricate metal products or assemblies.
- Solder parts or workpieces.
- Start, monitor, and adjust robotic welding production lines.
- Tend auxiliary equipment used in welding processes.
- Transfer components, metal products, or assemblies, using moving equipment.
- Turn and press knobs and buttons or enter operating instructions into computers to adjust and start welding machines.
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Interests for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Realistic
Designing, building, or repairing equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. - Conventional
Following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting.
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Skills for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
In order of importance
- Operations Monitoring
Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
Importance: 60/100 - Operation and Control
Using equipment or systems.
Importance: 56/100 - Monitoring
Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
Importance: 50/100 - Complex Problem Solving
Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Importance: 50/100 - Speaking
Talking to others.
Importance: 50/100 - Reading Comprehension
Reading work-related information.
Importance: 50/100 - Active Listening
Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
Importance: 50/100 - Critical Thinking
Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
Importance: 50/100 - Judgment and Decision Making
Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
Importance: 44/100 - Time Management
Managing your time and the time of other people.
Importance: 41/100 - Coordination
Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
Importance: 41/100 - Active Learning
Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
Importance: 41/100 - Equipment Maintenance
Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.
Importance: 35/100 - Social Perceptiveness
Understanding people's reactions.
Importance: 35/100 - Writing
Writing things for co-workers or customers.
Importance: 31/100 - Repairing
Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.
Importance: 31/100 - Troubleshooting
Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
Importance: 31/100 - Quality Control Analysis
Testing how well a product or service works.
Importance: 31/100 - Systems Evaluation
Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
Importance: 28/100 - Management of Personnel Resources
Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
Importance: 28/100 - Instructing
Teaching people how to do something.
Importance: 28/100 - Equipment Selection
Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
Importance: 28/100 - Systems Analysis
Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Importance: 28/100 - Mathematics
Using math to solve problems.
Importance: 28/100 - Service Orientation
Looking for ways to help people.
Importance: 25/100 - Negotiation
Bringing people together to solve differences.
Importance: 25/100 - Management of Material Resources
Managing equipment and materials.
Importance: 25/100 - Persuasion
Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
Importance: 25/100 - Learning Strategies
Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
Importance: 25/100 - Operations Analysis
Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
Importance: 22/100 - Science
Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.
Importance: 19/100 - Technology Design
Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
Importance: 16/100 - Management of Financial Resources
Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
Importance: 16/100 - Programming
Writing computer programs.
Importance: 3/100 - Installation
Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.
Importance: 3/100
The O*NET database contains a rich set of variables that describe work and worker characteristics, including skill requirements.
Occupation data (titles, sample titles, descriptions, daily work activities, knowledge, skills, abilities, tasks, related occupations, technologies and tools, and work values) come from the O*NET 29.0 Database (www.onetcenter.org/database.html) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Current as of October 2024.
Knowledge for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
In order of importance
- Production and Processing
Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Importance: 70/100 - Administration and Management
Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Importance: 63/100 - Design
Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Importance: 53/100 - Public Safety and Security
Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Importance: 48/100 - Mechanical
Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Importance: 46/100 - English Language
Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Importance: 46/100 - Engineering and Technology
Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Importance: 42/100 - Customer and Personal Service
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Importance: 42/100 - Mathematics
Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Importance: 40/100 - Education and Training
Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Importance: 37/100 - Administrative
Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Importance: 35/100 - Personnel and Human Resources
Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Importance: 34/100 - Computers and Electronics
Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Importance: 30/100 - Building and Construction
Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
Importance: 27/100 - Physics
Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
Importance: 26/100 - Sales and Marketing
Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
Importance: 23/100 - Chemistry
Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
Importance: 17/100 - Transportation
Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
Importance: 16/100 - Law and Government
Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Importance: 16/100 - Economics and Accounting
Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Importance: 15/100 - Communications and Media
Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Importance: 12/100 - Foreign Language
Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
Importance: 11/100 - Telecommunications
Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Importance: 8/100 - Medicine and Dentistry
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
Importance: 7/100 - Food Production
Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Importance: 5/100 - History and Archeology
Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
Importance: 5/100 - Geography
Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
Importance: 4/100 - Therapy and Counseling
Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
Importance: 3/100 - Biology
Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
Importance: 3/100 - Psychology
Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Importance: 2/100 - Philosophy and Theology
Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
Importance: 2/100 - Fine Arts
Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Importance: 1/100 - Sociology and Anthropology
Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Importance: 1/100
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Physical Abilities for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
In order of importance
- Near Vision
Seeing details up close.
Importance: 69/100 - Control Precision
Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
Importance: 66/100 - Arm-Hand Steadiness
Keeping your arm or hand steady.
Importance: 56/100 - Visualization
Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
Importance: 56/100 - Manual Dexterity
Holding or moving items with your hands.
Importance: 56/100 - Selective Attention
Paying attention to something without being distracted.
Importance: 53/100 - Multilimb Coordination
Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.
Importance: 53/100 - Problem Sensitivity
Noticing when problems happen.
Importance: 53/100 - Information Ordering
Ordering or arranging things.
Importance: 53/100 - Rate Control
Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.
Importance: 50/100 - Deductive Reasoning
Using rules to solve problems.
Importance: 50/100 - Oral Expression
Communicating by speaking.
Importance: 50/100 - Category Flexibility
Grouping things in different ways.
Importance: 50/100 - Speech Recognition
Recognizing spoken words.
Importance: 50/100 - Extent Flexibility
Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Importance: 50/100 - Far Vision
Seeing details that are far away.
Importance: 50/100 - Finger Dexterity
Putting together small parts with your fingers.
Importance: 50/100 - Speech Clarity
Speaking clearly.
Importance: 50/100 - Inductive Reasoning
Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
Importance: 50/100 - Perceptual Speed
Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
Importance: 50/100 - Reaction Time
Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.
Importance: 50/100 - Trunk Strength
Using your lower back and stomach.
Importance: 50/100 - Flexibility of Closure
Seeing hidden patterns.
Importance: 47/100 - Auditory Attention
Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
Importance: 47/100 - Static Strength
Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.
Importance: 47/100 - Written Comprehension
Reading and understanding what is written.
Importance: 47/100 - Oral Comprehension
Listening and understanding what people say.
Importance: 47/100 - Depth Perception
Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
Importance: 44/100 - Hearing Sensitivity
Telling the difference between sounds.
Importance: 41/100 - Written Expression
Communicating by writing.
Importance: 38/100 - Dynamic Strength
Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
Importance: 38/100 - Response Orientation
Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.
Importance: 31/100 - Visual Color Discrimination
Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
Importance: 31/100 - Glare Sensitivity
Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.
Importance: 28/100 - Fluency of Ideas
Coming up with lots of ideas.
Importance: 28/100 - Originality
Creating new and original ideas.
Importance: 28/100 - Explosive Strength
Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.
Importance: 28/100 - Speed of Closure
Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
Importance: 28/100 - Time Sharing
Doing two or more things at the same time.
Importance: 28/100 - Gross Body Equilibrium
Keeping your balance or staying upright.
Importance: 28/100 - Stamina
Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.
Importance: 28/100 - Wrist-Finger Speed
Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.
Importance: 25/100 - Number Facility
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
Importance: 25/100 - Mathematical Reasoning
Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
Importance: 25/100 - Gross Body Coordination
Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.
Importance: 25/100 - Peripheral Vision
Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.
Importance: 25/100 - Memorization
Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
Importance: 25/100 - Spatial Orientation
Knowing where things are around you.
Importance: 22/100 - Night Vision
Seeing at night or under low light.
Importance: 22/100 - Sound Localization
Noticing the direction that a sound came from.
Importance: 19/100 - Speed of Limb Movement
Quickly moving your arms and legs.
Importance: 16/100 - Dynamic Flexibility
Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Importance: 10/100
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Tools and Technology used by Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Automatic soldering machine
- Ball peen hammer
- Bench vises
- Blow torch
- Braze welding machine
- C clamps
- Calipers
- Claw hammer
- Cleaning scrapers
- Cold pressure or contact welding machine
- Demolition hammers
- Desktop computers
- Electron beam welding EBW machine
- End cut pliers
- Facial shields
- Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
- Goggles
- Hand clamps
- Hoists
- Hydraulic truck cranes
- Induction heaters
- Laser cutting machine
- Laser welding machine
- Lifts
- Loading equipment
- Locking pliers
- Magnifiers
- Micrometers
- Mill saw file
- Positioning jig
- Power grinders
- Protective gloves
- Punches or nail sets or drifts
- Rulers
- Shielded metal arc welding or stick welding machine
- Slip or groove joint pliers
- Spot welding machine
- Squares
- Tape measures
- Thickness measuring devices
- Tongs
- Tungsten inert gas welding machine
- Welding electrode
- Welding masks
- Welding or brazing tip cleaner file
- Welding or cutting tip
- Welding robots
- Welding tip dresser or accessories
- Winches
- Wire brushes
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- SAP software
- Industrial control software
- Tool center point TCP setting software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Operating system software
- Linux
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft operating system
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
- Word processing software
The O*NET database contains a rich set of variables that describe work and worker characteristics, including skill requirements.
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Employment Industries for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Machinery manufacturing (3331,2,4,9)
4,800 employed - Motor vehicle parts manufacturing
4,400 employed - Fabricated metal product manufacturing (3323,4)
3,900 employed - Fabricated metal product manufacturing (3321,2,5,6,9)
2,800 employed - Motor vehicle manufacturing
2,700 employed - Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
2,300 employed - Temporary help services
1,400 employed - Machine shops
1,100 employed
The O*NET database contains a rich set of variables that describe work and worker characteristics, including skill requirements.
Occupation data (titles, sample titles, descriptions, daily work activities, knowledge, skills, abilities, tasks, related occupations, technologies and tools, and work values) come from the O*NET 29.0 Database (www.onetcenter.org/database.html) by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Current as of October 2024.
Career Information Datasources for Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Wages by occupation
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual states, and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available. Current as of May 2024. - Education and training assignments
U.S Department of Labor, Employment Projections, Education and Training Data, Education and training assignments by detailed occupation
BLS provides information about education and training requirements for hundreds of occupations. In the education and training system, each of the occupations for which the office publishes projections data is assigned separate categories for education, work experience, and on-the-job training. Current as of September 2024. - Occupation data
O*NET at the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA)
The O*NET database contains a rich set of variables that describe work and worker characteristics, including skill requirements. Current as of October 2024. - Occupation outlook
O*NET at the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA)
My Next Move provides career outlook designations that include Bright, Average, or Below Average. Bright Outlook occupations are expected to grow rapidly in the next several years, will have large numbers of job openings, or are new and emerging occupations. Current as of November 2024. - Career videos
Career videos were developed by CareerOneStop.org
Explore our collection of videos on hundreds of different careers. Career videos are organized into 16 clusters, or related types of work. Select a category to view a list of videos related to that cluster. Videos include career details such as tasks, work settings, education needed, and more. Current as of rolling. - Educational attainment, typical education of current workers
USDOL’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program, Education and Training Data,
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Is Manufacturing right for you?
Manufacturing workers work with products and equipment. You might design a new product, decide how the product will be made, or make the product. You might work on cars, computers, appliances, airplanes, or electronic devices.
Plan Your Education
The Welding Program Guide is a tool to help you map out how to successfully get your degree at Lake Superior College.
- 2024-2025 Program Guide
- 2023-2024 Program Guide
- 2022-2023 Program Guide
- 2021-2022 Program Guide
- 2020-2021 Program Guide
View approximate total tuition and fees for MN residents to complete this degree.
This program may be completed in 2 years if prerequisites are complete.
Skills and Knowledge
- Demonstrate proper welder use and safety
- Welding print reading & interpreting symbols
- Demonstrate various weld transfers
- Demonstrate fabrication layout
- GMAW (gas metal arc welding)
- GTAW (gas tungsten arc welding)