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Welcome to Kaskaskia College's Welding Technology Program! Welcome to the official page of the Kaskaskia College Welding Program!

Our comprehensive program is designed to develop your skills in labs outfitted with modern industrial welding equipment. Kaskaskia’s Welding Technology Program allows students to explore the many avenues available within the field of welding. This program is designed to help students prepare for a career in the metal fabrication trades as a skilled welding operator. The knowledge and demonstrated

skill of a qualified welder are in demand and pay well. The Welding Technology Program requires dedication to learning and understanding all aspects of welding dynamics through classroom lectures and intensive hands-on experience in the laboratory setting. Upon successful completion of this degree, students will be prepared for employment in the following fields:

Welder
Journeyman
Foreman
Inspector
Manager

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06/22/2026

🔨⚙️🔥 Explore Your Future in the Skilled Trades! 🔥⚙️🔨

Interested in a hands-on career with strong job demand and excellent earning potential? Join us for the Industrial Trades Fall Open House and Registration Event at Kaskaskia College's Crisp Manufacturing and Trades Center!

✅ Tour the Manufacturing and Trades Center
✅ Meet Industrial Trades instructors
✅ Learn about career opportunities in the trades
✅ Register for Fall 2026 classes

Featured Programs:
🔹 Carpentry Occupations
🔹 Welding Technology
🔹 HVAC
🔹 Industrial Technology

📅 August 10, 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Crisp Manufacturing and Trades Center
2005 E. McCord St., Centralia, IL

Whether you're graduating high school, changing careers, or looking to build new skills, this is a great opportunity to see what KC's Industrial Trades programs have to offer.

📞 RSVP: (618) 545-3434

06/10/2026

This years Welding camp finished up today. It was hot in the shop but the kids did well. Now they can go grill dinner on their grills they built. They built grills and charcoal starters using MIG welding and brake pressing. At the end of the day they got to try their hand at some stick welding as well.

06/08/2026

Today was day one of Kaskaskia College’s Welding departments summer camp. Students learned the basics of GMAW welding and Oxy-fuel cutting. They also started building their own portable barbecue cue grills. Grills will be finished on day two, Wednesday.

06/03/2026

For the Girls! Ella LaCaze is a graduate of Kaskaskia College's Residential & Commercial Electricity program and is currently employed at Arentsen Farm Sales & Service in Albers. Way to represent KC, Ella!! This Dairy Life, thank you for sharing Ella's work on your project!

June 3 - For the Girls

A very, very long story short- we are moving the location of the sprinkler system for the cows (I’ll talk about that later).

They showed up yesterday morning and a 20-something girl hopped out of the truck. I was immediately mad. They sent a girl to pass them tools, at least that is what I thought.

NOPE. She was the WELDER.

Let me repeat. She was the welder. SHE was here to do the work.

To say that I was both humbled and impressed is an understatement. Our girls watched her work. I watched her work. I wish I would have taken her picture but I didn’t want to be creepy. I hope she sees this and knows she made a small impact on a couple of young girls.

05/20/2026

05/17/2026

Summer classes start Tuesday. There is still time to register.

05/02/2026

The Mobile lab and other Kaskaskia College faculty and staff participated in the Breese Central High School career fair today. Students got to try some hands on activities at the trailer.

04/26/2026

Congratulations to Dawson Rudolphi on receiving the St. Louis AWS Section and Kaskaskia College’s outstanding Student award. Dawson was accompanied by KC Welding Instructor Eric Howard on last Thursday night. Very well deserved Dawson.

04/25/2026

The Mobile Manufacturing Lab with the Welding , HVAC, and INDT departments was at All Saints grade school in Breese Illinois today. The sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students at the school got to learn about these fields in the trades. Students got to weld steel, braze copper, and run a robot or milling machine. Around 100 students visited the trailer today.

04/23/2026

The Kaskaskia College Welding Class spent Tuesday and Thursday at Sandoval high school. The students replaced the top rail of the guard around the backside of the school and made guards for all of the drains around the baseball field and school. It was a good project to get students some real world experience and help neighboring schools.

Address

2005 E McCord Street
Centralia, IL
62801

Telephone

+16185453406

Website

https://www.kaskaskia.edu/welding-technology/

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