Sheet Metal Building Trades

Program Overview

This Associate in Science program in Sheet Metal Fabrication and Installation provides students with the skills to detail, fabricate, and install sheet metal products, ensuring compliance with industry standards and environmental efficiency. The program includes courses in trade introduction, sheet metal tools, drafting, welding, HVAC systems, and foreman training. Graduates are prepared for careers as sheet metal workers, structural metal fabricators, and other related occupations.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Program Content:
• Detailing, fabricating, and installing a variety of sheet metal products
• Complying with applicable standards and codes
• Aiming for optimum environmental and energy efficiency
• Program Structure:
• Associate in Science degree
• 95.5 - 98.5 units
• Course Schedule:
• 11-14 term program
• Courses cover topics such as:
• Trade introduction
• Certified safety and beginning trade math
• Sheet metal tools and shop
• Soldering and common seams
• Drafting introduction and views
• Beginning duct fittings
• Parallel line fittings
• Triangulation fittings
• Radial line layout and ogee offsets
• Basics of architectural sheet metal
• Architectural sheet metal
• Field installation
• Welding 1: Process and safety overview
• Welding 2: GMAW
• Plans and specifications
• Submittal and shop drawings
• Natural sciences
• English
• Industrial and stainless steel introduction
• HVAC air systems and duct design
• Introduction to testing, adjusting, and balancing HVAC systems
• TABB technician certification
• Title 24 mechanical acceptance testing
• Service basics
• Codes and standards
• HVAC energy conservation and environmental technology
• Measuring and sketching
• Fabrication and shortcuts
• Metal roofing
• Detailing

Careers:

• Career Paths:
• Sheet metal workers
• Structural metal fabricators and fitters
• Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Foundry mold and coremakers
• Model makers, metal and plastic
• Patternmakers, metal and plastic
• Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
• Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Career Opportunities:
• Nationwide growth is expected to shrink from 2019 to 2029, with a -2.4% growth rate for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, and a +3.6% growth rate for sheet metal workers.
• Career Outcomes:
• Salary range: $28,000 to $104,000
• Average salary: $45,000