Fabrication and Welding Technology

Watch the sparks fly while working with metal starting your career in Fabrication and Welding Technology.

Cooperative Education Welding Fabrication

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Cooperative Education classes can help you stand out when you’re searching for a job by giving you real world experience.

All your options

In this program, you can pursue a degree or build your own path with certificates. Our program gives you a variety of options for success. The associates degree ensures you’re highly skilled and ready for a variety of fields within fabrication and welding. If you don’t have two years to complete the full program, then the one-year Fabrication and Welding Certificate is a great place for you to learn the immediate skills you need to start your career. The Welding Processes Certificate and our Career Pathways program prepare you for specific aspects of welding and fabrication, but don’t provide the comprehensive knowledge you learn in our other programs.

Associate Degree

Lane’s Welding and Fabrication program is designed to create a foundation of skills and knowledge leading to a career in welding and fabrication. You’ll be prepared with techniques that elevate your skill set above the competition. Our students develop skills in welding processes, cutting processes, metallurgy, fabrication, blueprint reading, and layout.

You’ll take a mix of hands-on labs with classroom theory to ensure the lessons you’re learning make practical sense. You’ll be learning from instructors with a wealth of industry experience and professionalism, who teach you the skills you need to start a successful career right after your program.

Learn more about the Fabrication/Welding Technology, AAS

2 years full-time

$18,740 Full program

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Shielded Metal arc Welding, Gas Tungsten Arc Welding, and many Wire drive processes
Semi and fully automatic Oxy Acetylene and Plasma arc thermal cutting
Metal saws, press brakes, punches, iron workers, plater rollers, tube and pipe bending
Comprehensive understanding of welding blueprints, Forklift and overhead crane
Fabrication, lay out, metallurgy and AWS Certification
Pipe fitting and welding, and much more

AFTER LANE

Once you’ve completed your program, you’ll have a wide variety of career options open to you as welding and fabrication are always in high demand! Employment prospects include the manufacture of equipment utilized in many fields such as aerospace and transportation, medical, recreation, recycling, energy processing, delivery, road construction, shipping and management. Welder/fabricators build bridges, buildings, bicycles, machine tools and more.