Welding Technology

Few career choices offer such vast options for employment and personal development as welding.

Graduates in the welding program will be trained and perform weld shop safety and proper handling of tools and shop supplies. Graduates will also be trained and perform skills in (OFW) oxy-fuel welding and cutting, (SMAW) stick welding, (GMAW) mig welding and also (GTAW) tig welding in a variety of positions to ensure the students have the skills needed to enter today's workforce. Graduates will also learn to read and perform duties from weld shop blueprints, proper set up and selection of welding equipment, and perform self examination of welds to meet today's standards and specifications. Graduates will gain the ability and knowledge to properly set up, complete, and pass a welding certification test to AWS (American Welding Society) D1.1 standards to get their welding career started on the right path.

Major Offerings

Major Title (Degree)	Campus(es)	Credits
Welding Technology (DIP)	Winona	34 cr

Career Opportunities

Production manufacturing welding
Structural design welder
Repair and rebuilding career
Specialized welding machine operators
Cutters Pipe fitters
Construction welding
Heavy equipment welding

Job Placement

Not Available - view our tracking summary on Southeast Tech's Class of 2007

Program Highlights

Hands-on experience
Learn a vast range of welding processes needed by today's employers

Instructors

Casey Mann is a 1982 graduate of Winona Technical College and has over 27 years of experience in most welding facets and operations. He has worked in family-owned shops, large scale fabrication shops, road crews and has project management experience on multi-million dollar projects that have been shipped throughout the world. Casey has been an adjunct instructor for Southeast Technical since 2003.

Minnesota State College-Southeast Technical