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Brad Wagoner
Gove County Welding Certification Instructor
Kayla Luera
Director of Enrollement Management & Outreach
Program Overview
Northwest Tech 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.
Northwest Tech’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.
Northwest Tech'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)
Projected Salary
$31,000 per yearAdmissions Checklist
Below is a list of items Northwest Tech’s Admissions Team will need prior to your acceptance into the Collision Repair program.
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A Northwest Tech Application Completed and Submitted
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$25 Application Fee Paid
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High School or GED Transcript Submitted
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(If Applicable) College Transcript Submitted
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ACT or AccuPlacer Scores Submitted (AccuPlacer Testing can be scheduled on-site at the Northwest Tech campus)
Required items can be submitted in person at the Northwest Tech campus, via postal mail addressed to Northwest Tech Admissions, 1209 Harrison, Goodland, KS, or through email communications with admission@fhnw.edu.
Job Placement
Newest Program: Data Available in 2022
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.
Advisory Committee
- Steve Evert
- Gary Farris
- L.D. Smith
- Frank Otter
- Mitch Janisch
- Pat Arasmith
- Dennis Malsom
- Bill Jones
Brad Wagoner
Gove County Welding Certification Instructor
Kayla Luera
Director of Enrollement Management & Outreach
Program Overview
Northwest Tech 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.
Northwest Tech’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.
Northwest Tech'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)
Projected Salary
$31,000 per yearAdmissions Checklist
Below is a list of items Northwest Tech’s Admissions Team will need prior to your acceptance into the Collision Repair program.
-
A Northwest Tech Application Completed and Submitted
-
$25 Application Fee Paid
-
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 Northwest Tech campus)
Required items can be submitted in person at the Northwest Tech campus, via postal mail addressed to Northwest Tech Admissions, 1209 Harrison, Goodland, KS, or through email communications with admission@fhnw.edu.
Job Placement
Newest Program: Data Available in 2022
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.
Advisory Committee
- Steve Evert
- Gary Farris
- L.D. Smith
- Frank Otter
- Mitch Janisch
- Pat Arasmith
- Dennis Malsom
- Bill Jones
