META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN WELDING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · AWS SENSE LEVEL 1
Cutting & Weld Inspection
Cut & Inspect · in YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real
6 weeks of YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real: Oxyfuel Cutting · Plasma Cutting · Gouging & Joint Prep · Blueprints & Weld Symbols · Inspect Like a CWI …
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
TECHNOLOGY & TRADESMATHART & DESIGNSCIENCEREADING & WRITINGBUSINESS & ENTERPRISECODING & AI
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
LEADS TO · THE CERTIFICATION
AWS SENSE Level 1 · the welder performance qualification (WPQ) IN PERSON · issued by American Welding Society · a certified welding inspector. In the booth. A test plate welded in position, bent and judged by a CWI — there is no virtual weld test.
EVERY CERTIFICATION →WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Oxyfuel doesn’t melt steel — it burns it
- Where oxyfuel burns steel, plasma melts and blows — with a jet of superheated, electrically charged gas hot as the surface of the sun.
- A great weld starts before you strike an arc — with how the joint is cut, beveled, and fit together
- A welder who can’t read a print is guessing
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 Oxyfuel Cutting → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN WELDING · YWC WELDING COURSES · WELD FOR REAL
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · Oxyfuel Cutting → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1Oxyfuel CuttingCUT & INSPECT
Oxyfuel doesn’t melt steel — it burns it. A preheat flame gets the steel glowing, then a jet of pure oxygen sets it on fire and blows the burning metal out of the cut.
WK 2Plasma Cutting
Where oxyfuel burns steel, plasma melts and blows — with a jet of superheated, electrically charged gas hot as the surface of the sun.
WK 3Gouging & Joint Prep
A great weld starts before you strike an arc — with how the joint is cut, beveled, and fit together. This week is joint preparation: gouging out bad metal, beveling for penetration, and the fit-up that decides whether a…
WK 4Blueprints & Weld Symbols
A welder who can’t read a print is guessing. The weld symbol is a compact language that tells you exactly what weld to make, where, how big, and what shape — all in a few marks. This week you learn to read it fluently.
WK 5Inspect Like a CWI
This is the whole course pointed back at the weld: learning to judge it the way a Certified Welding Inspector does.
WK 6The Cut & Inspect Capstone
The complete fabrication loop in one make: cut the metal, bevel and fit the joint, read the weld symbol, weld it, then inspect and defend the result to code.
WK 7–9The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does Cut & Inspect ask you to be able to do by week 6?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: Oxyfuel Cutting · Plasma Cutting · Gouging & Joint Prep · Blueprints & Weld Symbols …
The evidence. Handed in through Cut & Inspect inside YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
One pass includes Cutting & Weld Inspection and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.