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CWI Training Courses: Micro-credentials

Learn new skills and stay current with affordable micro-credential courses from the American Welding Program.

CWI Training Courses Online Lessons, On Your Time

Each micro-credential course allows learners to explore a subject in detail through engaging online lessons. Put that knowledge to the test with interactive exercises, knowledge checks, and exams. Content is accessible for hobbyists looking to improve their skills, yet detailed for professionals seeking to stay current in their field or make a career change.

Online lessons bring learning to life with animations and video, and a variety of interactive activities enable you to engage directly with key concepts. Return to and review previous lessons to prepare for quizzes and exams designed to challenge what you’ve learned and provide immediate feedback on your responses.

Dive deeper into each course with comprehensive digital textbooks, links to industry articles or videos, and other student resources. All content is available for the duration of the course and can be accessed at any time from your phone, tablet, laptop, or other digital device.

Drawing Interpretation

Drawing Interpretation

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of drawing interpretation. Topics include: basic drafting concepts, types of structural and pipe drawings, interpretation of structural and pipe drawings, views, and drawing information, and more.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Health and Safety AWP

Health and Safety

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding health and safety. Topics include, workplace health and safety, personal protective equipment (PPE), fire hazard precautions, and many more. This course covers standard occupational tasks in metal fabrication.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Visual Inspection AWP

Visual Inspection

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of visual inspection concepts and techniques. Topics include: measurement errors, tools used for visual welding inspection, applying acceptance criteria, measuring fit-up, welds, discontinuities, and more.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Joint Design AWP

Joint Design and Preparation

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of joint design and preparation. Topics include different types of welded joints, mechanical, thermal and non-thermal methods of joint preparation, and the effects of thermal and non-thermal cutting and gouging.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

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Weld Symbols AWP

Weld Symbols

This course is suitable for anyone looking to gain intermediate knowledge in welding, metal fabrication, or quality assurance as either a welding practitioner, engineer, metallurgist, or someone simply looking for more knowledge on the topic.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding AWP

Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). Topics include power sources, shielded metal arc welding equipment, arc heat, process variables, electrical theory, and more.

PDH Icon 16PDHs            Price Icon   $349

 

 

Basic Inspection Concepts and Methods AWP

Basic Inspection Codes and Methods

This is a professional level course focusing on inspection codes and methods. Topics include the qualifications, functions, and duties of a welding inspector, the different stages of welding inspection, and the principles, techniques, and applications of non-destructive testing methods.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Hand and Power Tools AWP

Hand and Power Tools

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding hand and power tools. Topics include hand tools, measuring tools, layout tools, cutting tools, and many more. Course materials cover proper usage, tool maintenance, and safety best practices to ensure tool accuracy and longevity.

PDH Icon 16PDHs            Price Icon   $349

 

 

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Welding Processes and Equipment AWP

Welding Processes and Equipment

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding processes. Topics include classification of welding processes, equipment for each welding process, weld soundness, variables and typical discontinuities associated with each welding process.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Basic Wire Process Welding AWP

Basic Wire Process Welding

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of wire-fed processes. Topics include, power sources, gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), metal cored arc welding (MCAW), modes of metal transfer, and more.

PDH Icon 16PDHs            Price Icon   $349

 

 

Metallurgy and Material Specifications AWP

Metallurgy and Material Specifications

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of metallurgy. Topics include, the groupings, properties, and applications of engineered materials, microstructures of steel, an introduction to the iron-carbon phase diagram, and steel specifications, designed for welders, engineers, and metallurgists.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Weld Faults: Inspection and Causes AWP

Weld Faults: Inspection and Causes

This professional level course focuses on comprehensive knowledge of welding faults. Topics include different types and causes of weld discontinuities and defects, and the application of visual inspection criteria, suitable for learners looking to gain intermediate knowledge in welding, metal fabrication, or quality assurance.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

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Oxyfuel Cutting AWP

Oxyfuel Cutting

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of oxyfuel cutting. Topics include, oxyfuel cylinder safety, pressure regulators and their functions, start up and shut down procedures, and best practices for storage of combustible gas cylinders.

PDH Icon 12PDHs            Price Icon   $249

 

 

Codes, Standards, and Specifications AWP

Codes, Standards, and Specifications

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of codes, standards, and specifications related to welding. Topics include agencies that set codes and standards, welding codes and standards relevant to the welding and fabrication industry, and more.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Functions of the Inspector AWP

Functions of the Inspector

This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of the functions of a welding inspector. Topics include interpreting a mill test report, verifying welding procedure specifications have been properly qualified, explaining the processes required for inspection prior to, during, and after welding, and more.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Carbon Arc Gouging AWP

Carbon Arc Gouging

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of Air Carbon Arc Cutting. Topics include CAC-A theory; safety requirements; equipment; applications; electrodes and their applications; elements affecting cutting; cutting and gouging operations.

PDH Icon 2PDHs            Price Icon   $99

 

 

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Plasma Arc Welding AWP

Plasma Arc Welding

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of Plasma Arc Cutting. Topics include applications, operating variables, elements affecting quality, and the Plasma Arc Cutting process. Course materials cover proper usage and safety best practices to ensure precise cuts. 

PDH Icon 2PDHs            Price Icon   $99

 

 

Submerged Arc Welding AWP

Submerged Arc Welding

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of Submerged Arc Welding. Topics include the SAW process, principles, and applications, SAW equipment and its operation, the characteristics of fluxes, their care and storage, SAW electrodes, defects and discontinuities.

PDH Icon 2PDHs            Price Icon   $99

 

 

Basic Wire Process Welding AWP

Intermediate Wire Process Welding

This course is an intermediate course focusing on wire-fed processes on low-carbon steel pipe. Topics start with a review of basic wire-fed process concepts and progress into weld soundness, modes of metal transfer, best practices for pipe, and more.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding AWP

Intermediate Shielded Metal Arc Welding

This intermediate course focuses on shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) of low-alloy steels and low-carbon steel pipe. Topics review basics, low-alloy and stainless-steel electrodes, weld soundness, best practices for welding pipe.

PDH Icon 8PDHs            Price Icon   $199

 

 

Welding Processes and Equipment AWP

Basic Gas Tungsten Arc Welding

This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). Topics include power sources, process variables, discontinuities, and more. Course materials cover proper usage and safety best practices to ensure quality welds.

PDH Icon 16PDHs            Price Icon   $349

 

 

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