This course provides the beginner student with a thorough technical understanding of flux cored arc welding, welding metallurgy, and joint design. This course is designed to provide training to develop welding skills on carbon steels using small and large diameter flux-cored electrodes (with and without shielding gas) in all positions on fillet and groove welds. This course also teaches trouble shooting and the use of the proper equipment, filler metal selection, and welding with different gases. Seventy (70) hours of booth instruction and ten (10) hours of lecture and practice, as well as forty (40) hours of mock up training make up this course (120 hours total).