Northern’s School of Welding Engineering Technology sets the standard for welding education in Canada. The curriculum is challenging but provides the student with a solid foundation of mathematics, science, metallurgy and welding process technology.

There is more to welding than making arcs and sparks. Welding engineering technologists combine their theoretical education in engineering with their hands-on experience with major welding processes and nondestructive examination equipment to work as knowledge professionals who from time to time get their hands “dirty.”

Northern College’s School of Welding Engineering Technology is leading the way in welding education with our recent approval as North America’s first Authorized Training Body for the International Institute of Welding (IIW). Certification as an International Welding Technologist through the Canadian Welding Bureau (the authorized national body for the IIW) provides our technology graduates with job opportunities in 38 IIW member countries across the globe. Other plans for the School include the continued establishment of an independent applied welding research centre called Materials Joining Innovation Centre (MaJIC) at the Kirkland Lake Campus, which became operational in April 2008.

Features and Highlights

• Earn certificates for classroom training for Nondestructive Examination methods. (Some restrictions may apply.)
• Level I Radiography Inspection
• Level I Ultrasound
• Level II Magnetic Particle Inspection
• Level II Liquid Penetrant Inspection
• Graduates of the Welding Engineering Technician program are eligible to qualify to CSA W178.2 as visual welding inspectors.
• Welding Engineering Technician and Technology programs are recognized by the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) for certification.
• A short preparatory course (International Welding Technologist Option – WE6022) is offered to graduating Welding Engineering Technology students during their final semester to prepare them to write the qualifying examination for certification as an International Welding Technologist.
• Optional co-op program allows students to earn while they learn. Students are able to put into practice the theory they have learned while gaining valuable work experience and industrial contacts.