Specialty Programs

Manufacturing - Welding (Dual Enrollment)

Manufacturing Career Cluster

The Manufacturing Career Cluster is focused on planning, managing and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing, and process engineering.

 

Program Information

Program Type

Transfer

Students participating in this program will transfer to the program location for all courses and activities. Express Bus Transportation is available to accepted students living outside the program location boundaries through Specialty Program Transportation.

Schools
Potomac High School

Welding Dual Enrollment

This curriculum is designed for individuals wishing to obtain fundamental skills for immediate entry-level positions in the welding trade as welding apprentices or welding laboratory assistants.

PWCS students will graduate with 15 of 18 college credits in the Welding: Basic Techniques Career Studies Certificate (C.S.C.).

GradePWCS CoursesPWCS 
Credits
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) CoursesNVCC
Credits

9

Production Systems

1

  

10

Welding 1 DE

1

WEL120, Introduction to Welding, and
WEL 121, Arc Welding

2
2

11

Welding 2 DE

2

WEL 122, Welding II (Electric Arc), and
WEL 150, Welding Drawing and Interpretation 

3
2

12

Welding 3 DE

2

WEL 130, Inert Gas Welding, and
WEL 160, Semi-automatic Welding Processes

3
3

 Total Credits

6

 

15

Sub-Total Credits
4-4.00