# Welding (WELD) courses

Cuesta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 18 courses

Source: https://cuesta.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/29980/29981/30061

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026.

### WELD 101 — SURVEY OF WELDING

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 4 hours per week: (1.00 lecture hours/3.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade Only

Provides welding process instruction to include Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Oxy Acetylene Welding (OAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW). Also includes instruction in Oxy Fuel Cutting (OFC) and Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC). Safety instruction will include industry standard Job Safety Analysis (JSA) with material from ANSI Z49.1.

### WELD 193 — WELDING TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL TOPIC

- **Units:** 0.5 to 4
- **Hours:** 0.5 to 4 hours per week: (0.50 - 4.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Examines a special topic in the field of study related to the discipline offering this course.

### WELD 247 — INDEPENDENT STUDIES: METALS TECHNOLOGY

- **Units:** 2
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (0.00 lecture hours/6.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** The student must have completed preparatory course work in the technical field in which the study is to be undertaken.
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Provides an opportunity for in-depth study or practicum experience by an individual student in a selected topic in the Welding Technology area with support and direction from an instructor.

### WELD 252 — WORK EXPERIENCE IN WELDING

- **Units:** 0.5 to 4
- **Hours:** 1.5 to 12 hours per week: (0.00 - 0.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours/1.50 - 12.00 work experience hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade Only
- Repeatable: 3 Times

Provides opportunities for students in Welding to connect academic curricula to experiential learning in the workplace as an internship, Service Learning placement or general employment. Allows students to develop and work on learning objectives in workplace competencies and technical skills relevant for their course of study and career pathway. Students must work 54 hours for each unit of credit earned, in half-unit increments (27 hours), up to a maximum of 4 units. Employment can be paid or unpaid.

### WELD 270A — BASIC WELDING

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Provides basic instruction in oxyacetylene and shielded metal arc welding. Begins with the fundamentals and quickly progresses through intermediate skills for welding steel. Includes information on cutting, braze welding, metallurgy, vertical arc welding and non-ferrous welding. Emphasizes the development of good manipulative welding skills for joining steel in the flat and horizontal positions.

### WELD 270B — ADVANCED WELDING

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Continues WELD 270A with emphasis placed on vertical and overhead welding with the shielded metal arc processes. Includes instruction on air carbon arc gouging, flux core arc welding, and development of welding procedures and techniques.

### WELD 270C — WELDING: GMAW & GTAW

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade Only

Focuses on using the Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW) processes to produce complex welded joints on ferrous and nonferrous materials in a variety of positions.

### WELD 273 — METALLURGY

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 5 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/3.00 lab hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Emphasizes the mechanical and physical properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Includes preparation and inspection of metal samples and manufacturing and forming processes.

### WELD 275 — BLUEPRINT READING AND INDUSTRY PRACTICES

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Provides students with instruction and experience with structural, architectural and shop blueprints commonly utilized in the welding industry. Interpretation, drawing, and application of skills will be applied to determining job cost, material acquisition and project construction.

### WELD 276 — WELDING POWER

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Applies principles of selection, maintenance, diagnostics and repair of various welding power supplies and external drive mechanisms. Includes instruction and hands on experiences in electrical principles as they pertain to machine selection, installation, operation and maintenance. Manual, semiautomatic and automatic equipment will be included as focus topics for this course.

### WELD 277 — METAL FABRICATION

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A or WELD 101
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/summer-2026/weld.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Prepares the student to meet industry standards through the design and construct of major projects through the instruction on manufacturing processes, and current industry production techniques. Includes development of a project proposal in which students develop drawings, budgets, cut lists and bills of materials.

### WELD 280A — STRUCTURAL STEEL WELDING CERTIFICATION

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270B and WELD 270C
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade or P/NP

Continues WELD 270B. Prepares the student to meet industry standards in shielded metal arc welding on plate steel. Includes performance and procedure qualification, workmanship, techniques, inspection. Provides opportunity for certification to the American Welding Society D1.1 Structural Welding Code.

### WELD 280B — PIPE WELDING CERTIFICATION

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Advisory:** WELD 270B
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Letter Grade Only

Prepares the student to meet industry standards in Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) on plate and pipe, as well as introduces Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) on pipe. Includes workmanship and pipe fitting techniques, providing opportunity for certification to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section IX Boiler and Pressure Vessel code.

### WELD 770A — BASIC WELDING

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Provides basic instruction in oxyacetylene and shielded metal arc welding. Begins with the fundamentals and quickly progresses through intermediate skills for welding steel. Includes information on cutting, braze welding, metallurgy, vertical arc welding and non-ferrous welding. Emphasizes the development of good manipulative welding skills for joining steel in the flat and horizontal positions.

### WELD 770B — ADVANCED WELDING

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A or WELD 770A
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Continues WELD 270A with emphasis placed on vertical and overhead welding with the shielded metal arc processes. Includes instruction on air carbon arc gouging, flux core arc welding, and development of welding procedures and techniques.

### WELD 777 — METAL FABRICATION

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270A or WELD 770A or WELD 101
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Prepares the student to meet industry standards through the design and construct of major projects through the instruction on manufacturing processes, and current industry production techniques. Includes development of a project proposal in which students develop drawings, budgets, cut lists and bills of materials.

### WELD 780A — STRUCTURAL STEEL WELDING CERTIFICATION

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Prerequisite:** WELD 270B or WELD 770B and WELD 270C
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/cuesta-college/schedule/fall-2026/weld.md)
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Continues WELD 270B. Prepares the student to meet industry standards in shielded metal arc welding on plate steel. Includes performance and procedure qualification, workmanship, techniques, inspection. Provides opportunity for certification to the American Welding Society D1.1 Structural Welding Code.

### WELD 780B — PIPE WELDING CERTIFICATION

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 6 hours per week: (2.00 lecture hours/4.00 lab hours)
- **Advisory:** WELD 270B
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026 schedules
- Non Credit
- Non-Credit Gradeable Course/SP

Prepares the student to meet industry standards in Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) on plate and pipe, as well as introduces Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) on pipe. Includes workmanship and pipe fitting techniques, providing opportunity for certification to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section IX Boiler and Pressure Vessel code.