Features:

• Modular program delivery with one-on-one coaching makes this program ideal for both beginner and experienced welders
• Program eligible for financial aid
• Small class sizes: student/instructor ratio is 18:1

The Welding Foundation pre-apprenticeship certificate program — previously known as Welding Level C — offers you the best basic training for entry-level employment in a broad variety of welding and steel fabrication. You get layout and fabrication experience by completing hands-on exercises and projects, using top-of-the line welding equipment.

  Sample topics include:

• Oxyfuel Gas Cutting (OFC)
• Gas welding and braze welding
• Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW #1)
• Air carbon arc gouging (AAG)
• Gas Metal Arc Welding  (GMAW #1)
• Flux cored arc welding  (FCAW #1)
• Material Handling
• Blueprint Reading
• Mathematics Welding Metallurgy

After you complete your Welding Foundation certificate successfully, you can earn your Red Seal by completing Welding Level B and Welding Level A at UFV.

Go to  Welding Foundation entrance requirements in the UFV Academic Calendar

This program is not open to international students.

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If you’re currently or recently employed as a welder, our upgrading program allows you to complete your certificate requirements or to become proficient in a specific process or technique.

As an upgrading student, you are expected to meet program prerequisites through previous enrolment or proof of industry experience, approved by the program instructor.

Upgrading students cannot be enrolled for more than 13 weeks or cannot displace anyone registered in an upcoming intake.