Manufacturing Welding Engineer

NEW BLENDED LEARNING PROGRAM (E-LEARNING AND IN-CLASS) BY THE WELDING GREEK INSTITUTE

Manufacturing Welding Engineer

Start date MAY 2015 - ATHENS

The Market Needs - Purpose of Education:

 The Welding Related Personnel are staff which is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, supervising, inspecting and performing welding activities.

The categories are as follow:

-          Welding Coordination Personnel

-          Welding Inspection Personnel

-          Welders

The education structure:

 The Welding Greek Institute (WGI) offers an innovative and specialized short-term training program, recognized and accredited by major Welding Institutes and accepted by the international market, the Manufacturing Welding Engineer.

The program will be implemented in blended learning (e-learning and in-class) or exclusively on e-learning.

The duration is 320 hours (8 weeks).

Access conditions:

·       Diploma from a Higher Education Private College in relevant subject – minimum 3 years of study.

·       Merchant Shipping Academies – Diploma of Mechanical School. 

·       Relevant Diploma from Highest Educational Institution.

Teaching is divided into three (3) modules:

1. QA/QC Welding Coordinator
2. Inspection & NDT
3. Desing of Welded Structures

Training syllabus:

1. QA/QC Welding Coordinator Module

1.1 Quality Management Systems

1.2 Welding Technology

1.3 QC Welding Coordinator

2. Inspection & NDT Module

2.1 General Introduction to Welding Inspection

2.2 Testing

2.3 Weld imperfections

2.4 Testing methods

2.5 Quality Assurance

2.6  Management of inspection function

3. Design of welded structures

3.1 Basic theory of structural systems

3.2 Fundamentals of the strength of materials

3.3 Joint design for Welding and Brazing

3.4 Basics of weld design

3.5 Behaviour of welded structures under different types of loading

3.6 Design of welded structures with predominantly static loading

3.7 Behaviour of welded structures under cyclic loading

3.8 Design of cyclic loaded welded structures

3.9 Design of welded pressure equipment

Alternative Routes for education:

Diploma holders (or higher)	Modules or Chapters Education is NOT obligatory
Lead Auditor ISO 9000	1.1
Lead Auditor ISO 9000 & International Welding Specialist diploma	1.1 & 1.2
Lead Auditor ISO 9000 & International Welding Engineer	1.1 , 1.2 & 3 (all the module)
International Welding Specialist	1.2
Welding Inspector (IWI/C-S-B, AWS, CSWIP, CBIP, SAIW, AICIP, API)	1.2 & 2
NDT Inspector  (Level 2 ASNT/ISO9712/API – either RT, UT, VT, MT, PT	1.2
QA/QC Welding Coordinator	1 (all the module)
International Welded Structures Designer	3 (all the module)

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Contact details: Telephone +30 210 3630050 or e-mail training@wgi.gr or visit us at our offices Panepistimiou 44, 6th floor Athens. www.wgi.gr