Member: $489
Non-member: $652
Approximately 13 hours
13 PDHs / 1.3 CEUs
30 days
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Course Description
Basic Training for Welding Sales Representatives
This course is designed to serve as an overview of important concepts in common welding, cutting, and joining processes. It is focused on a sales, distribution, and manufacturing perspective. Specifically, this course focuses on the basics, equipment, consumables, variables, and disadvantages of common joining and cutting processes (SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW, SAW, OFC, PAC, CAC-A, brazing, and soldering). The course also focuses on standard welding terms, safety, shielding gas types, electrical characteristics of welding power sources, and welding procedure specifications and procedure qualification records.
• Anyone interested in transitioning to sales in the welding industry
• Anyone preparing to take the Certified Welding Sales Representative (CWSR) exam
This student body may encompass many positions, including:
Welding students
Entry-level welders
Welding sales personnel
Professionals Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
There are no academic or professional prerequisites for taking this course.
- Take on the various roles of a welding sales representative
- Use standard welding terminology
- Identify and prevent welding safety hazards
- Analyze when personal protective equipment is necessary and use it properly
- Comprehend the AWS shielding gas classification system
- Describe the parts of an electrical circuit, electrical variables, and power source types used in welding
- Explain the basics of typical welding, thermal cutting, brazing, and soldering processes
- Describe the equipment, variables, advantages, and disadvantages inherent to typical welding and cutting processes as well as brazing and soldering
- Read and fill out a WPS and PQR
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completing the “Welding Sales Representative” course, students will be able to:
