Northern Maine Community College

Northern Maine Community College offers a 32-credit Structural Welding certificate at its Presque Isle campus. The two-semester curriculum combines print reading, technical mathematics and industrial safety with sequential shop courses in introductory and electric welding, structural SMAW, open-root welding, flux-core welding and plasma-table operations. Students receive hands-on structural and fabrication training and prepare for the American Welding Society D1-SM-F4-P-A-L structural welding qualification test.

Programs Offered

Structural Welding Certificate

Credential: Certificate
Processes: Stick, Flux-Core, Fabrication
GI Bill: Eligible
Program Length: 32 credit hours
AWS Prep: Available

Schedule: Two semesters; major welding courses within each semester are scheduled sequentially, not concurrently; in-person Presque Isle lab schedule

This 32-credit, two-semester certificate combines classroom work with extensive welding-lab practice. Required… Read full description

This 32-credit, two-semester certificate combines classroom work with extensive welding-lab practice. Required courses cover oxyacetylene welding and cutting, plasma cutting, arc-welding fundamentals, structural SMAW with E7018 electrodes, open-root SMAW with E6010 electrodes, flux-core welding and plasma-table operation, along with print reading, technical mathematics and industrial safety. Major welding courses are scheduled sequentially within each semester. The program explicitly prepares students for the AWS D1-SM-F4-P-A-L structural welding qualification test and employment in fabrication, manufacturing, shipyard and industrial-construction settings.

Offered at

Presque Isle Campus — Presque Isle, ME

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