Northeast Iowa Community College

This 36-credit diploma uses hands-on, competency-based instruction to prepare students for welding employment. Current official sources document MIG, TIG and Stick welding, pipe welding, flame cutting, plasma cutting, multiple welding positions and blueprint interpretation. The flex-paced program admits students in Fall, Spring and Summer, and its official page explicitly states that it prepares students for an AWS Qualification Exam.

This short-term Career Pathway Certificate introduces basic steel and aluminum wire-fed Gas Metal Arc Welding through hands-on instruction. The 104-hour program also covers welding symbols and blueprint interpretation and is offered at the Cresco Center. Its coursework may transfer into the Welding Diploma.

This noncredit Career Pathway Certificate develops wire-fed Gas Metal Arc Welding skills for structural steel through hands-on training. The 164-hour core includes basic GMAW, while a current Peosta early-admission pathway for the same credential also documents flame and plasma cutting. The program is offered at Calmar, Oelwein, Peosta and Waukon, with flexible lab times documented at Peosta, and coursework may transfer into the Welding Diploma.