Build your career to help with rewarding work as a Welder, Fabricator, Engineer,
Inspector, Welding Technician, Joining Technician, Business owner, or Sales
and Service Representative.
Build your career to help with rewarding work as a Welder, Fabricator, Engineer,
Inspector, Welding Technician, Joining Technician, Business owner, or Sales
and Service Representative.In the future the best jobs will go to those people who best prepare themselves in Trade schools, Community College, or four years at a University. Starting wages for a trained welder is roughly three to five times minimum wage depending upon location and skill levels. This can go higher than ten times minimum wage in some cases. Welding Engineers with four-year degrees earn attractive salaries.
All of
these career opportunities are open to woman and men a like. The Welding and
Joining curriculum is designated to provide the student with entry-level job
skills in either welding or light fabrication. The correct use of tools and
equipment along with the proper work techniques involved in welding trades is
stressed in the first year course.
Southern Lakes Career Technical Center offers students
an additional opportunity to gain advanced placement credit with many colleges
and universities. If students demonstrate competence at a specific skill level,
they are given college credit. This is possible through an articulation agreement
with certain two-year colleges and four-year universities. Best
of all, there is NO charge for the college credit.
Continuation of education after high school is encouraged and recommended. Point
and click the heading above to see a charting
of present articulations with Mott Community college, Baker
College, Ferris State University, Kettering University, lansing Community College,
Washtenaw Community College, and the Universal Technical Institute.
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