The Construction and Energy Technology noncredit Certificate of Completion prepares students to work for businesses in residential and commercial energy auditing, electrical wiring and commercial lighting retrofit trade industries.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

✔ Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the construction and energy industries and identify career pathways and opportunities.

✔ Identify code compliant construction.

✔ Demonstrate safety compliance in the construction and energy industries.

✔ Utilize fundamental building principles to lay out and construct structures and systems.

✔ Explain the principles of Green Building and prescribe building solutions utilizing emerging technology.

The Construction Fundamentals certificate of completion provides the essential skills and workforce preparation needed for entry level careers in the building trades and construction industry.  Students will gain knowledge and skills interpreting technical trade calculations, taking accurate measurements, blueprint reading, handling equipment and materials, basic building and installation methods and practicing safety construction techniques according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

✔ Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the construction and energy industries and identify career pathways and opportunities.

✔ Identify code compliant construction.

✔ Demonstrate safety compliance in the construction and energy industries.

✔ Utilize fundamental building principles to lay out and construct structures and systems.

✔ Explain the principles of Green Building and prescribe building solutions utilizing emerging technology.

The Construction Basics Skills Certificate curriculum prepares students to work safely for small to large home builders in a labor role. This skills certificate provides a foundation for students to help employers directly build residential homes. A skills certificate is designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

✔ Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the construction and energy industries and identify career pathways and opportunities.

✔ Identify code compliant construction.

✔ Demonstrate safety compliance in the construction and energy industries.

✔ Utilize fundamental building principles to lay out and construct structures and systems.

✔ Explain the principles of Green Building and prescribe building solutions utilizing emerging technology.

Designed to give students the drafting support knowledge and abilities required to enter the workforce at the specialist level. Focuses on skills relative to specialized architectural documentation such as is used in architectural and civil construction trades. Appropriate for students seeking retraining. This is a specialty skills certificate designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

✔ Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the construction and energy industries and identify career pathways and opportunities.

✔ Identify code compliant construction.

✔ Demonstrate safety compliance in the construction and energy industries.

✔ Utilize fundamental building principles to lay out and construct structures and systems.

✔ Explain the principles of Green Building and prescribe building solutions utilizing emerging technology.

Successful completion of the curriculum in Drafting Architectural/Civil prepares students for entry-level positions as document support technicians in the fields of architecture, interior design and kitchen/bath design. A certificate is designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

✔ Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of the construction and energy industries and identify career pathways and opportunities.

✔ Identify code compliant construction.

✔ Demonstrate safety compliance in the construction and energy industries.

✔ Utilize fundamental building principles to lay out and construct structures and systems.

✔ Explain the principles of Green Building and prescribe building solutions utilizing emerging technology.

This certificate promotes competence in solving equipment, mathematical and manufacturing problems that apply to the welding trade. It emphasizes metal placement, measurement, and layout of tools used in construction, as well as the fundamentals of blueprint reading and welding equipment repair.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ evaluate algebraic expressions by substituting given numbers for letter values
✔ solve formulas by substituting numbers for letters, analyzing word statements and diagram values
✔ compute the area, radius, and diameter of a circle
✔ compute area, radius, and central angles of a sector
✔ measure angles in degrees, minutes, and seconds
✔ identify and demonstrate the proper use of common power tools and accessories used in the welding trade
✔ interpret fabrication blueprints using a systematic process
✔ interpret graphic welding symbols
✔ interpret electrical and electronically controlled circuits
✔ evaluate testing equipment used for welding maintenance repair

This certificate promotes competence in pipe welding with emphasis on power sources, electrode/filler metal selection on various joint designs, techniques, and positions for welding. Instruction includes safety, math, and proper procedures in making fillet and groove welds that are in compliance with structural and pipe welding codes.
Certificate completers may find employment in a number of industries, including PG&E pipeline construction, oil refining, power generation, structural building, bridge construction, and small commercial fabricating shops.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ interpret electrode and filler metal classifications and specifications.
✔ select correct amperage setting for the job application.
✔ define principles of arc welding.
✔ perform Shielded Metal Arc Welding and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding operations in various positions using selected electrodes on different joint designs.
✔ use math in welding applications.

The Gas Tungsten Arc Welding certificate promotes competence in welding ferrous and nonferrous materials. Emphasis is on proper use of gas tungsten arc welding (GTA) equipment setup requirements, process variables, material requirements, and welding procedures that are in compliance with industry standards.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ identify GTA principles and safe practices.
✔ define GTA applications and limitations.
✔ weld mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminum alloys using GTA procedures in all positions.
✔ evaluate and demonstrate procedures for a given welding project or application.
✔ relate the requirements of welding ferrous and nonferrous materials.
✔ select the appropriate settings and applications methods of GTA process.

The Gas Metal Arc Welding certificate promotes competence in welding with different types of metal transfer, constant voltage power sources, different types of shielding gases, and electrode selection on various joint designs. Instruction is provided in gas metal and flux cored arc welding on fillet and groove welds to specific structural and pipe standards.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ select the correct electrode classification and parameters for various thicknesses of material and welding positions on ferrous and nonferrous metals
✔ define principles of gas metal arc welding
✔ interpret electrode classification and specification
✔ analyze gas metal arc welding operations on various joint designs using selected electrodes for different welding positions

This certificate provides skills and knowledge in manual and semi-automatic welding processes used in the metal fabrication and construction industries. Instruction covers materials, equipment, welding procedures, testing techniques, inspection, welding metallurgy, blueprint reading, and welding safety. Competencies include techniques of joining ferrous and non-ferrous metals by the use of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). Oxyacetylene welding, oxyacetylene cutting and plasma arc cutting, are also covered.
Graduates may find employment in a number of industries including; pipe line construction, oil refining, aerospace, structural building, bridge construction, automotive, and small commercial fabricating. They may also work as welding shop supervisors and welding sales persons, and they can also become welding shop owners.

Student Learning Outcomes
✔ list the factors that must be considered before a welding process is selected.
✔ evaluate a weld according to a given standard or code.
✔ compare the three types of welding current used for Gas Tungsten Arc Welding.
✔ define voltage, electrical potential, amperage, and electrical current as related to Gas Metal Arc Welding.
✔ discuss how the Gas Metal Arc Welding molten weld pool can be controlled by varying the shielding gas, power settings, weave pattern, travel speed, electrode extension, and gun angle.
✔ explain what each of the digits in a standard Flux Cored Arc Welding electrode identification number mean.
✔ list and define the three units used to measure a welding current.
✔ give the characteristics of the three filler metal groups E6010 and E6011, E6012 and E6013, and E7016 and E7018.
✔ discuss three general categories of pipe welds including how they are used and what type of weld root penetration and strength they require.
✔ make a single V-groove butt welded joint on a pipe in any position to code specifications.
✔ list the crystalline structures of metals and explain how grains form.
✔ describe practical applications of metallurgy.
✔ solve basic welding fabrication math problems.
✔ read a set of welding blueprint drawings and explain each item shown and its dimensioning.