MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

SYLLABUS SPRING 09

COURSE: WLD 140 GMAW Lecture

PREREQUISITES: Must take with 141 and have had at least 2 prior welding courses (or instructor approval)

INSTRUCTOR: Reid Davis

OFFICE NUMBER: 231 B.B.C.

OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: 824-1760

OFFICE HOURS: 2:00-3:00

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is designed to teach students the identification, inspection and maintenance of GMAW machines: identification, selection and storage of GMAW electrodes; principles of related processes such as FCAW and SAW and metallurgy are also included.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

A.  Students will be proficient with shop safety procedures.

B.  Students will use shop equipment and tools to an adequate level of safety.

C.  Students will set up gas metal arc equipment properly.

D.  Students will set up oxy-fuel equipment properly.

E.  Students will use power equipment for shearing and grinding to prepare metal.

TEXTBOOK REQUIRED: “Welding Skills” ATI Publishers 6th edition

INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES:

Pens

Pencils

Paper

Calculator

Leather work boots with sewn-in tongues (no tennis shoes allowed)

Approved safety glasses

All leather high top gloves

·  All students must provide necessary equipment

GRADING:

90-100 = A

80-89 = B

70-79 = C

60-69 = D

59-Below F

·  Grades based on performance and written tests.

CRITICAL THINKING:

Students will make connections in learning across the disciplines and draw logical conclusions. This will be done by selecting correct shielding gases for applications, correct wire diameters, correct feed, correct speed, and correct voltages.

ADA Policy
If you have a documented disability and need any type of accommodation, you are required to register with the Disability Resource Coordinator. Contact Valerie Wolfe, Disability Resource Coordinator, in Room 112 of the LRC building or at (270) 824-1708. The Disability Resources Office provides accommodations for students with permanent or temporary documented disabilities. This includes, but is not limited to, students with physical or psychological disabilities, learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, and other health problems.
Attendance Policy
Students are expected to be in class every time it is scheduled to meet. This class should be treated like a job. If you can not attend, call in and let the instructor know why you are going to be absent.
Late Work Policy
Students are expected to turn in assignments the next class period after their absence. One letter grade will be deducted for every class day the assignment is turned in late . Some assignments can be sent electronically to the instructor. These will be expected on the due date no mater what.
Make-up Policy
Students will be expected to make up any in class work as soon as feasible with the instructor's OK. It is the students responsibility to ask of assignments that were missed
Withdrawal Policy
Please refer to the most current semester schedule
Homework Help Online
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Student Code of Conduct
You can locate the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) Student Code of Conduct at http://www.kctcs.edu/student/code.htm
Writing
To satisfy the general education requirement of writing across the curriculum, "Instructors in all courses are expected to call attention to proper English usage and may penalize for errors and/or require the rewriting of papers which do not meet acceptable standards in English." (Senate Rules, Section V, 2.3.3)
Course Requirements (applies only to technical courses)
Students must be able to lift heavy objects, work in hot conditions, and work well with others

COURSE OUTLINE:

1 Practice lab safety procedures

2 Use lab equipment and tools

3 Apply principles of GMAW to weld metals, to include FCAW and SAW

4 Apply knowledge of the effects of variables of GMAW to weld plate and pipe

5 Apply knowledge of basic metallurgy to control chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of alloy

steels

6 Identify and select filler materials for GMAW processes

7 Critical thinking exercises will be administered thru the selection of welding electrodes for a task, selection of shielding gases and equipment, and a variety of “Live Shop Work” situations, which cause the student to think independently.

Note: The instructor reserves the right to modify syllabus at any point