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This Automation and Control Certificate of Achievement is intended for those students interested in gaining knowledge and technical skills in operating, programming, and troubleshooting Automation and Control Process used in Manufacturing, Fluid, Electromechanical and Bottling process.
Graduates will be able to:
Depending upon a student's placement or for transfer purposes, this program may have pre-requisite(s). See a pathway coordinator or student development specialist for advisement.
This course introduces the various disciplines of engineering, with emphasis on learning concepts and practicing skills that are used in the engineering and engineering technology
fields. It is designed to develop students’ ability to identify and practice the different types of engineering problem solving, make effective written communications and oral presentations,
and understand the professional, ethical, and social responsibilities of an engineer. Feasibility and project management concepts are also introduced.
Fall, Spring
This course introduces the theory and application of passive direct current circuits. Topics include Ohm's law, series and parallel resistor networks, Kirchhoff's circuit laws, network theorems, and methods of analyzing circuits. The lab provides practical experience with electrical components, instruments, and circuitry. A computer-aided circuit simulation package is introduced. This course is only offered in the Fall.
MA-108
or
Test placement
or
Permission of Department Chairperson
Fall
This course introduces the theory, applications, and design of digital circuits. Topics include digital numbering systems and codes, Boolean algebra, combinational logic circuits, flip-flops and their applications, the fundamentals of synchronous logic design, and digital arithmetic. The lab provides practical experience with TTL logic devices and circuits.
MA 108 - College Algebra
OR
Test placement
OR
Permission of the Department Chairperson
Spring
This course is designed to provide students with skills and knowledge associated with programmable logic controllers-PLC's. It includes mastery of introductory/advanced instructions, operations and languages that are defined in the IEC61131-3 programmable logic controller standard; thus preparing students to write and troubleshoot control programs for a variety of engineering applications.
ET 111 - DC-System
OR
Permission of the Department Chairperson.
Spring
This course provides a practical introduction to industrial networks and addresses advanced PLC instructions, operations, languages set by the International Electrotechnical commission standard (3); IEC 61131-3. It includes all three of Allen-Bradley processors; PLC5, SLC500 and Controllogix.
ET 230 - Introduction to Programmable Logic Controller
OR
Permission of the Department Chairperson.
Fall
