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To meet high demand, Aims added a new weekend welding schedule for career-changers with families or full-time jobs (or both). You can complete the entire welding degree program on a weekend schedule on the campus of your choice—no need to switch campuses or take welding classes during the week.
The Aims welding program is popular and the weekend program is expected to fill up fast.
Are you mechanically inclined or do you enjoy working with your hands? Are you interested in a career that combines skill and attention to detail? The Aims welding technology program gives you the training you need to begin a rewarding career in the welding industry.
Welding uses heat to fuse metal parts. Welders can create something new, such as a trailer, fire pit, or sculpture, and repair existing structures and objects, including vehicles, pipelines, bridges, and more. Learn vital welding skills such as fabrication, a variety of welding techniques and weld inspection at the recently remodeled Greeley or Fort Lupton campuses.
Earn your welding associate degree at Aims and start a career in any number of industries where you can make a difference creating or repairing vital components and infrastructure that keep our society running.
Aims welding technology instructor Jeff Klein describes the pride in craftsmanship you’ll gain from taking raw materials and making something new, from art to functional necessities.
The welding program at Aims teaches the most common welding processes used in the industry today. With each welding technology degree course, build your knowledge and skills to prepare you for work in the industry.
Study techniques including:
We have many success stories and students who come to see us afterward and say, ‘I'm working here and I love it, and this shop is amazing.’ That's the passion that we want to have as faculty members in the welding department at Aims, to see these students flourish and continue to grow.
Work closely with experienced instructors while learning specialized welding techniques, safety standards and inspections.
You’ll receive your own equipment and welding booth for each class. Choose between recently remodeled facilities at the Greeley or Fort Lupton campuses.
Both welding facilities feature:
The Aims welding facilities are equipped with a variety of standard welding and cutting equipment that is specific to the processes being taught. These processes include oxyacetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) and more. The fabrication shops at Aims have specialized metal fabrication equipment, including CNC plasma cutters, plate shears, ironworking, cold saw, band saw and specialized fabrication tables.
The welding associate degree program at Aims also teaches soft skills that employers want. These include attention to detail and the patience to follow through with difficult projects. A capstone course allows you to apply everything you’ve learned by designing and fabricating a pressure vessel.
Watch Aims welding student Justin McEntee successfully test his pressure vessel to 1000 lbs. of pressure for a welding class project.
Aims Community College Welding Technology students can take their skills to the next level by training on industry-leading software and hardware with our X-Definition accu-kut CNC plasma cutting table from AKS Cutting Systems.
Watch Aims graduate Shayla Lamb talk about her time at Aims Community College and her journey through the Welding Technology program.
If you’re mechanically inclined or love working with your hands, a welding career offers various career opportunities. Work in diverse industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, construction, HVAC, and oil and gas.
Types of welding jobs you can get with a welding associate degree include:
Learn from instructors with real-world industry experience in many different types of welding from a variety of industries. While earning your welding associate degree, gain feedback from people who have worked in the field and understand what employers expect.
