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Welding (Gove County Location - Quinter, KS)
Course Outline

Program Overview

Gove County Welding Campus
102 Sunset Avenue, Quinter, KS 67752

Fort Hays Tech | Northwest delivers much more than a your typical classroom and book-learning experience — you will learn hands-on, acquiring essential skills and professional connections along the way.

Fort Hays Tech | Northwest’s welding department presents unique opportunities for you, the student, by devoting the majority of its program to actual work-based experience, including in-shop training and on-the-job site training. Additionally, our curriculum is continually being updated to provide you with the latest training for the industry as technology and equipment advance.

Welding is designed to teach specific skills in all aspects of the welding trade, which include arc welding, oxyacetylene welding, TIG, MIG, brazing, and semi-automatic cutting. Other related areas of study include blueprint reading, job layout, shop math, hard surfacing (ARC as well as powder torch), and pipe welding. You will learn welding processes that allow you to work with mild steel, cast iron, brass, aluminum, stainless steel, and some alloy metals. Fort Hays Tech | Northwest's welding program is a 2-year program for Junior & Senior's in High School that allows them to obtain a Technical Certificate.

Degree and Certificate Options

Associate of Applied Science (or Technical Certificate)

Learning Outcomes

  • Demonstrate welding safety and the proper use of shop tools.
  • Demonstrate oxy-acetylene and cutting skills.
  • Demonstrate shielded metal arc welding skills.
  • Demonstrate gas metal arc welding skills.
  • Perform braze welding.
  • Demonstrate gas tungsten welding.
  • Demonstrate mathematical and reasoning skills.
  • Demonstrate effective reading, writing, speaking, listening and time management skills.
  • Construct a resume.

Career Outcomes in
Welding (Gove County Location - Quinter, KS)

Projected Salary
$25,000– $50,000 per year

Job Placement

Newest Program: Data Available in 2022

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Faculty

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Faculty & Advisors

Kayla Luera

Kayla Luera
Director of Enrollment Management & Outreach

Office: 785-890-1512
kayla.luera@fhnw.edu

Brad Wagoner

Brad Wagoner
Welding Instructor

brad.wagoner@fhnw.edu

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Admissions Checklist

Below is a list of items Fort Hays Tech | Northwest’s Admissions Team will need prior to your acceptance into the Collision Repair program.

  • A Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Application Completed and Submitted

  • High School or GED Transcript Submitted

  • (If Applicable) College Transcript Submitted

  • ACT or AccuPlacer Scores Submitted (AccuPlacer Testing can be scheduled on-site at the Fort Hays Tech | Northwest campus)

Required items can be submitted in person at the Fort Hays Tech | Northwest campus, via postal mail addressed to Fort Hays Tech | Northwest Admissions, 1209 Harrison, Goodland, KS, or through email communications with admissions@fhnw.edu.

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Advisory Committee

Steve Evert
Gary Farris
L.D. Smith
Frank Otter
Mitch Janisch
Pat Arasmith
Dennis Malsom
Bill Jones