Member: $194
Non-member: $259
Course – 30 days
Exam – 10 more days
Approximately 6 hours
6 PDHs / 0.6 CEUs

- Anyone involved in the design, fabrication, or inspection of welded, brazed, or soldered joints
- Anyone wishing to learn how to decipher welding symbols and prints
- Anyone seeking to prepare for the AWS Certified Welding Inspector exam
- Anyone seeking to prepare for the AWS Certified Welding Inspector exam
This student body may encompass many positions, including:
Welders
Welding engineers
Welding inspectors
Welding sales reps
Welding supervisors
Shop owners
While no prior courses are necessary to fulfill prerequisite level knowledge, we advise novice students to take our Welding Fundamentals I course to become more familiar with welding terminology.
This course teaches students how to:
- Explain crystal structures and grain growth
- Describe how metals interact through solubility and diffusion
- Extract information from phase, TTT, and CCT diagrams
- Explain the need for heat treatments and stress relief
- Differentiate between plastic and elastic deformation
- Explain how a material’s thermal characteristics affects is weldability
Welding involves various metallurgical phenomena, including melting, freezing, diffusion, precipitation, thermal strains, and shrinkage. If disregarded or misunderstood, these effects can lead to cracking, porosity, or welds with poor properties.
This course builds on the fundamental principles described in Metallurgy I to provide a basic understanding of the nature of metals, the metallurgical phenomena involved in welding, and the effects of these phenomena on the properties of welded materials. Click on the Course Modules tab below to see a list of the topics covered.
The American Welding Society is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.
Upon completion of Metallurgy II, students will be able to:
