Micro-Credentials
Upgrade your skills and stay current with low-cost micro-credential courses.
What is a micro-credential?
Micro-credentials are compact, focused courses that offer affordable and flexible options for learning and professional development. Each micro-credential is independent, and may be completed in any order as learners pursue personal goals or career growth.
Choose what to learn and when. Micro-credentials allow learners to fit education into busy schedules and other obligations. There are no course schedules or classes to attend; log in and learn at your own pace and on your own time.
Pathways

Get where you need to go with pathways
Carve your own path to grow your career. Stack micro-credentials to build on knowledge or branch out and explore new learning opportunities.
Defined stacks of micro-credential courses are called pathways, and provide a clear route to recognized, expert-level knowledge sets, with some offering paths to new or advanced careers.
There are two types of pathways.Â
- ÒõAPPµ¼º½ pathways provide a clear route for those seeking to progress their career as a certified welding inspector or welding supervisor.Â
- Recognized pathways link courses that combine to provide complimentary knowledge sets, providing job-ready skills in existing or future positions.
Whether choosing a defined pathway or forging their own, learners have the flexibility and control to guide their own development.
Micro Credential Courses

Basic Inspection Codes and Methods
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of basic inspection codes and methods. Topics include the qualifications, functions, and duties of a welding inspector, describing the different stages of welding inspection, and the principles, techniques, and applications of non-destructive testing methods.

Intermediate Drawing Interpretation
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of drawing interpretation. Topics include types of drawings, interpreting structural drawings, types of pipe drawings, views, and drawing information, and more.

Distortion
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of distortion. Topics include factors influencing distortion, control of distortion, correction of distortion, and more.

Basic Drafting and Structural Drawing Interpretation
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of drawing interpretation. Topics include types of drawings, types of views, units of measurement, and more.

Drawings, Layout, and Fabrication
This course is an intermediate course focusing on structural drawings, pipe drawings, layout and fabrication. Topics include pipe fittings, reading pipe drawings, fitting and fabrication equipment, and more.

Electrodes and Consumables
This professional level course focuses on comprehensive knowledge of welding electrodes and consumables. Topics include understanding the groupings and classifications of standard electrodes covered in various CSA and AWS standards, understanding the basic classifications for low alloy steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper and nickel alloy electrodes, understanding classification of electrodes for soldering and brazing filler metals, and more.

Basic Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). Topics include power sources, process variables, discontinuities, and more.

Welding Health and Safety
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding health and safety. Topics include workplace health and safety, personal protective equipment (PPE), fire hazard precautions, and many more.

Welding Health and Safety
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding health and safety. Topics include workplace health and safety, personal protective equipment (PPE), fire hazard precautions, and many more.

Functions of the Inspector
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of the functions of a welding inspector. Topics include interpreting a mill test report, verifying welding procedure specifications have been properly qualified, explaining the processes required for inspection prior to, during, and after welding, and more.Â

Joint Design and Preparation
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of joint design and preparation. Topics include describing the different types of welded joints, describing the mechanical method of joint preparation, identifying the effects of thermal and non-thermal cutting and gouging, and more.

Basic Welding Metallurgy
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding metallurgy. Topics include mechanical and physical properties of metal, weldability of steels, heat treatment, and more.

Metallurgy and Material Specification
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of metallurgy. Topics include identifying the groupings, properties, and applications of engineered materials, identifying the microstructures of steel, interpret the iron-carbon phase diagram, describe tests for identifying metals, and more.

Review of Physical Metallurgy
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of physical metallurgy. Topics covered in this course include, understanding the making of iron and steel, understanding the crystallographic differences between the ferrite and austenite lattice, understanding strengthening mechanisms, and more.

Introduction of Welding Metallurgy of Steel
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding metallurgy of steel. Topics covered in this course include metallurgical transformations, cracking tests, lamellar tearing, meld metal reactions, avoidance of hydrogen induced cold crack, and more.

Metallurgy of Stainless Steels
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding metallurgy of stainless steels. Topics covered in this course include explaining the role of various alloying elements in stainless steels, explaining the major problems in welding stainless steels and how to overcome them, understanding the welding procedures for stainless steels, and more.

Lifting, Hoisting, and Rigging
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of lifting, rigging, and hoisting. Topics include safe handling and storage of materials, calculating the weight of loads, sling configurations applications and working load limits, and many more.

Mechanical Testing of Welds
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of mechanical testing of welds. Topics covered in this course include the concepts of stress and strain, the method behind tensile tests and bend tests, the requirements of various codes for tensile and bend tests, and more.

Oxy-Fuel Cutting
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of oxy-fuel cutting. Topics include oxy-fuel cylinder safety, pressure regulators and their functions, start up and shut down procedures, and more.

GMAW Orbital Welding
This course is an advanced course focusing on the fundamentals of GMAW orbital welding. This program has been developed in partnership with Liburdi Automation and details the use of their industry leading orbital equipment. Topics include welding heads, joint design and preparation, system operation, and more.

GTAW Orbital Welding
This course is an advanced course focusing on the fundamentals of GTAW orbital welding. This program has been developed in partnership with Liburdi Automation and details the use of their industry leading orbital equipment. Topics include welding heads, joint design and preparation, system operation, and more.

Plasma Arc Cutting
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of plasma arc cutting. Topics include applications, operating variables, elements affecting quality and plasma arc cutting process.

Welding Processes
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding processes. Topics include describing the classification of welding processes, identifying torches/guns for each welding process, explaining weld soundness and variables associated with each welding process, and identifying typical discontinuities for each welding process.

Welding Processes and Equipment
This is a professional level course focusing on advanced welding processes and equipment. It provides an overview of major welding processes, with emphasis on arc welding, and a broad understanding of the principles of operation of each process, general characteristics and equipment. Processes such as resistance welding (RW), plasma arc welding (PAW), electron beam (EBW), laser beam welding (LBW) and electroslag welding (ESW) are also covered.

Power Sources for Welding
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of power sources used in welding. Topics include describing the static and dynamic characteristics of welding power sources, distinguishing between conductors and insulators, describing the evolution of welding power sources, and more.

Weld Quality and Discontinuities
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of weld quality and discontinuities. Topics include discontinuities and defects, geometric discontinuities, structural discontinuities, and more.

Radiographic Inspection
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of radiographic inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include describing how radiography works, explaining how images are formed and what controls their quality, recognizing radiographic images of various defects, describing safety practices with radiographic inspection, and more.

Residual Stress and Distortion
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding related stress and distortion. Topics covered in this course include, describing the causes of distortion, identifying the residual stress patterns in rolled shapes, identifying the types of distortion and explaining techniques of limiting and controlling distortion, and more.

Codes, Standards, Specifications, and Welder Qualifications
This course is an intermediate course focusing on the codes and standards as they relate to various certification bodies. Topics include agencies that set codes and standards, structural applications, pressure applications, and more.

Codes, Standards, and Specifications
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of codes, standards, and specifications related to welding. Topics include identifying the primary agencies that set codes and standards, identifying and describing welding codes and standards used in North America, and describing the responsibilities of the ÒõAPPµ¼º½.

Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of shielded metal arc welding (SMAW). Topics include power sources, SMAW equipment, process variables, and more.

Surface Inspection
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of surface inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include explaining the basic principles of LP and MP inspection methods, understanding the components of typical inspection procedures and techniques, identifying false and non-relevant indications, and more.

Intermediate Welding Symbols
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding symbols. Topics include the key elements of welding symbols, symbols used for fillet, groove, arc spot and plug welds, combined symbols, and symbols referenced by CSA, AWS, and ISO.

Welding Hand and Power Tools
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of welding hand and power tools. Topics include hand tools, measuring tools, cutting tools, and many more.

Ultrasonic Inspection
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of ultrasonic inspection of welds. Topics covered in this course include describing how ultrasonic inspection works, calibrating equipment and the suitability of equipment and materials for the specifications of ultrasonic testing, describe the typical code requirements governing ultrasonic testing, and more.

Visual Inspection Concepts and Techniques
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of visual inspection concepts and techniques. Topics include identifying types of measurement errors, identifying measuring devices used for inspection, describing the application of acceptance criteria, and more.

Welding Faults: Inspection and Causes
This is a professional level course focusing on comprehensive knowledge of welding faults. Topics include identifying different types of weld discontinuities, describing the causes of weld discontinuities, and applying visual inspection criteria.

Basic Wire Process Welding
This course is an introductory course focusing on the fundamentals of wire process welding. Topics include power sources, gas metal arc welding (GMAW), modes of metal transfer, and more.