WELD 130 - Blueprint Reading

3 Credits
This course prepares students to read shop drawings and blueprints. The course covers lines, views, notes, specifications, dimensions, bills of materials, structural shapes, structural prints, detail prints, assembly prints, general symbols, welding symbols, pipe layouts, pipe symbols, and weld testing symbols.

Course Outcomes

Interpret all elements of a blueprint.
Translate all elements of the AWS standard welding and Non Destructive Testing Symbols (NDT).
Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, decimals and fractions while calculating dimensions, tolerances and scales on a blueprint.
Use a tape measure to cut and fabricate a welded fabrication from a blueprint.
Demonstrate the safety hazards, use of personal protective equipment and take the necessary precautions with all welding and fabrication processes.