Welding Lab

The welding lab is a metal fabrication area providing students exposure to common fabrication and joining processes and sourcing metal forming services to SOET senior design teams.

Educational Application

Common processes include soldering, brazing, stick, mig, and tig welding.  Students are provided an active hands-on environment design and fabricate assemblies and fixtures using common joining practices listed above.  These fixtures and assemblies are used as support hardware within laboratories such as the Smart Foundry, Senior Capstone Laboratory, Smart Learning Factory, and the Machining and Fabrication Laboratory.

The laboratory serves:

• MET 143 (Materials and Processes I)
• ENGT 480/481 (ET Capstone I/II)
• MET 581 (Welding Technology for Mfg/Ag)
• ABE 501 (Welding Engineering)

Available Equipment

• 4 Lincoln Square Wave Tig 275 stick/tig welders
• 5 Miller Dialarc HF stick/tig welders
• 1 Miller Dynasty 300 stick/mig/tig welder
• 1 Miller MPS-10AFT resistance “spot” welder
• Bend tester
• Oxy-Acetylene torches
• Dewalt abrasive hot saw
• Misc forming tools