CLUSTEREngineering and Technical

COURSEBlueprint Reading and Metallurgy

WVEIS CODE1983

Course Description:

The Skill Sets in this course are representative of the basic knowledge included in a Career and Technical Education Welding concentration. Areas of study include drawing fundamentals, sketching and fabricating, basic welding symbols, and properties of metals and alloys. This course is recommended as an Elective in the Welding concentration.

SKILL SETS

Drawing Fundamentals

Sketching and Fabrication

Welding Symbols

Properties of Metals and Alloys

Blueprint Reading and MetallurgyWVEIS 1983

Skill Set / Drawing Fundamentals
Knowledge Objectives / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
  • basic dimensioning skills.
  • distinguishing between notes and specs and being able to analyze the title block.
  • creating a title block and a bill of materials.

Performance Objectives / Students will
  • identify the accepted standards and methods of dimensioning a welding blueprint.
  • explain the procedures for dimensioning welding drawings.
  • differentiate between notes and specifications.
  • explain processing requirements from the title block.
  • explain why tolerances are used in blueprints.
  • develop a bill of materials from a drawing.
  • explain the concepts related to sketching.
  • construct an isometric sketch.
  • construct an orthographic sketch.

Skill Set / Sketching and Fabrication
Knowledge Objectives / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
  • basic sketching skills and techniques.
  • fabricating parts from drawings.

Performance Objectives / Students will
  • identify the concepts related to sketching.
  • explain the concepts related to sketching mult-iviews.
  • construct an isometric and orthographic views.
  • fabricate parts from a drawing or sketch or blueprint.

Skill Set / Basic Welding Symbols
Knowledge Objectives / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
  • basic welding symbols.
  • structural and non-structural steel.

Performance Objectives / Students will
  • draw welding symbols on a sketch or blueprint.
  • describe common types of welds and joints.
  • draw fillet and groove welding symbols with different requirements.
  • interpret common abbreviations for blueprints and welding processes.
  • identify the different types of structural and non-structural steel and their uses.

Skill Set / Metal and Alloy Properties
Knowledge Objectives / Students will demonstrate knowledge of
  • metallurgy properties and related terminology.
  • heat treating ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Performance Objectives / Students will
  • define metallurgy terms.
  • distinguish between mechanical and physical properties.
  • describe various heat treating processes..
  • explain welding characteristics of low, medium, and high carbon steel.
  • explain welding techniques used on alloy steels and cast iron.

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