{
  "college": "sierra-college",
  "edition": "2025-2026",
  "departmentName": "Welding Technology",
  "id": "welding-technology--fabricator",
  "name": "Metal Fabricator and Designer",
  "award": "Skills Certificate",
  "department": "welding-technology",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.sierracollege.edu/archive/2025-2026/departments/welding-technology/#Fabricator",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "The Metal Fabricator and Designer Skills Certificate provides students knowledge of the processes, manner and techniques of metalworking used in the welding industry or artistic metal expression applications. It can be a lead into employment with a typical metal fabrication organization and may parallel the manner of methods used by Ironworkers, Boilermakers and Millwrights; however, each of these specialty areas of metalwork encompasses their own system of apprenticeship which this skills certificate is not designed to replace. A skills certificate is designed to provide career technical skill for the focused subject area; it is not equivalent to the Welding Certificate and does not replace Welder Certification which is solely skill performance based."
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "title": "Required Courses",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ART 0022",
          "title": "Metal Arts",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 0001B",
          "title": "Basic Welding Fabrication",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 0002A",
          "title": "Gas Metal Arc Welding of Mild Carbon Steel on Sheet and Plate",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 0003A",
          "title": "Gas Tungsten Arc Welding of Mild Carbon Steel on Sheet and Plate",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 0005A",
          "title": "Manual Metal Arc Welding of Mild Carbon Steel Fillet Welds",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WELD 0015A",
          "title": "Manual Metal Arc Welding on Pipe Level 1",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "total",
          "text": "Total Units",
          "units": "13"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}