Ignite your passion for welding
Short-term welding training options
If you are looking to enter the workforce quickly, we can create a personalized education and employment plan for you. This plan will focus on the specific knowledge and skills you need to jumpstart your career or switch paths. To learn more, contact faculty advisor Dustin Bates at 503-594-3973 or dustinb@clackamas.edu.
Required classes for the Welding Technology Certificate
Weld your way to a rewarding future
- Fabricated metal products
- Manufacturing of vehicles and equipment
- Construction
- Transportation equipment
- Ship and boat building and repair
- Aircraft and parts manufacturing
- Self-employment (welding services)
- Other miscellaneous metal product fabrication
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For more information on career opportunities for this program, view the course catalog.Get industry-standard training from expert welding instructors
- Welding techniques: Fillet and groove welds using SMAW, GMAW, FCAW and GTAW on steel, stainless steel and aluminum with various electrodes.
- Cutting techniques: Plasma arc cutting (PAC), air carbon arc cutting (CAC-A) and gouging, along with manual and automatic oxy-fuel cutting (OFC and OFC-Track Burner) processes.
- Welding theory: Understand the science behind materials and welding processes.
- Practical skills: Develop experience in blueprint reading, weld inspection, quality control, safety protocols and essential shop practices.
- Fabrication from concept to completion: Learn fabrication techniques including job costing, layout, sketching, creating bills of materials, and applying fitting and cutting skills to real-world projects designed in collaboration with industry partners.
With a Welding Technology Certificate from CCC, you should gain the knowledge and hands-on skills to excel in your welding career, learning to perform a variety of techniques that will prepare you for any welding job.
For more information on expected outcomes of successfully completing this program, view the course catalog.Investing in your future
Clackamas Community College offers some of the lowest tuition rates in the Portland metro area. To begin building the cost for your program, you can start with the base estimate below.
This estimate includes the cost of tuition and the general fees applied per class and per academic term. This estimate does not include additional fees required for many courses or the cost of course materials. Contact the program to learn more about additional costs that may apply.
You can also find more information about the costs of attending CCC on the Tuition and Fees page.
Get help paying for college
Scholarships and grants (free money!) are available for students in this program. For help with financial aid and scholarships, contact the Financial Aid Resource Lab.