Industrial Maintenance - Certificate
Courses are designed for maintenance technicians providing skills and understanding of the preliminary fundamentals of PLC’s, motors and drives, pneumatics, hydraulics and mechanics.
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Program Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition: $2,769, Books: $366, Supplies: $100
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Curriculum
This certificate cannot be completed in one semester. Students should reach out to an admissions advisor to learn how long it takes to complete this certificate.
Course Descriptions
Introduces the concepts of AC and DC power and basic circuits. Using a multimeter, students learn about voltage, current, and resistance in both AC and DC circuits.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringElectric motor control components such as switches, relays, starters, transformers; and safely mount and install motor and motor control components and perform related wiring and troubleshooting of motor control circuits.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringElectric motor control components such as sensors, timers and counters. (Co-requisite: 10-664-100, Automation 1: Control Logic)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringBasic programmable logic controller programming and troubleshooting.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringTroubleshooting a PLC system, applying Event Sequencing, developing PLC applications, applying timer instructions and counter instructions. (Co-requisite: 10-664-102, Automation 3: PLC)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringApplication, troubleshooting, and implementation of program control, math and data move instructions, analog I/O modules, and producing a PLC program from specification. (Co-Requisite: 10-664-103, Automation 4: PLC)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringThis course provides the opportunity for the student to develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of the power and control circuitry of AC drives and application and troubleshooting of these industrial AC drives (VFD's) to AC induction motors. This course concentrates on the AB PowerFlex 525 Variable Speed Drive. (Prerequisite: 10-664-101, Automation 2)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringWhat fluid power is, differentiate between hydraulics and pneumatics, implement basic pneumatic circuits, utilize schematics, apply Pascal's Law, define properties of fluids, implement airflow control and hydraulics cylinder circuits.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringHydraulic pumps, basic hydraulics actuator circuits, hydraulic schematics, apply Pascal's Law, summarize the effects of fluids friction, define properties of hydraulic energy, design hydraulic circuits with directional control valves. (Co-requisite: 10-620-100, Fluids 1: Basic Pneumatics)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringThe basic skills of rigging, employment of hoists, slings, lifts, wire rope, and chain slings as part of rigging system.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringMechanical drive system components related to V-belt drives, chain drives, and gear drives.
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringIntroduction to basic mechanical devices and tools used for assembly, disassembly and adjustment.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringIntroduction to the function of commonly used machinery safety devices, wiring of these devices to complete safety circuits, overview of safety system design. (Prerequisite: 10-664-101, Automation 1: Control Logic)
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringThis course provides the opportunity for the student to develop the knowledge, skills, process and understanding of: Causes and results of magnetism and magnetic fields, laws of magnetic/electric interactions, DC Series, Permanent Magnet, Shunt, and Compound motor performance and operating characteristics. (Prerequisite: 10-660-116, Intro to AC/DC)
Course Typically Offered: Fall Spring