Students will spend two semesters learning a wide range of skills needed in today’s fast-paced workplaces, including health and safety, blueprint readings and sketching, applied math, communication, shielded metal arc welding, gas metal arc welding, introduction to computers and all-position pipe welding. Learning welding theory is vital, but so is the practical training needed to perform the most basic welding techniques. With Fanshawe College's welding program, students will: • Complete a 120-hour unpaid work placement that will help make connections in the field and earn experience; • Develop hands-on skills and confidence using real-world industry equipment; • Be qualified to work as a welder, welder fitter trainee or as an apprentice in a wide range of trades including boilermaker, construction millwright, industrial mechanic/millwright, ironworker or pipefitter.