Room #140 - Welding Engineering Technology

Swan Annex Room #140

Automation Welding Lab: Semi-Automatic, Automatic and Robotic Welding Processes

Designed for 200/300 level course work for the instructional development and applications for semi-automatic, automatic and robotic welding & cutting applications. The lab space has the following equipment features:

4,024 square feet of instructional space
GMAW robotic work cell systems with coordinated motion (CM), through the are seam tracking (TAST), touch sensing (TS), off-line programming software, nozzle cleaning stations, barrier safety fencing, cell operator control panels
Robot mounted 6Kw fiber laser welding & cutting work cell with barrier safety fencing, in-cell mounted video observation cameras, operator control panel, downdraft table ventilation
Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) mast & boom systems with AC/DC welding power supplies. One 650 amp and one 1,000 amp power sources
Oil & Gas industry Single-head and Dual-head Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) orbital welding system for operator skill and procedure development
Student weldment fabrication stations –
- Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) / Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) – AC/DC, Advanced AC waveform technology
- Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) / Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) – Advanced DC waveform technology with pulsation
Down draft ventilation cutting table station for manual OFC and PAC
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) rotational welding system for the processing of sanitary and food grade piping
Semi-automatic GTAW horizontal seamer with cold-wire feeder system and rotational lathe-style positioner with cold-wire feeder system
Ultrasonic Welding (UW) system for spot welding of foil type material