Electrical Systems Technology Certificate

This technical degree prepares the student to enter cooperative training in an energy-related field. Often these training experiences result in long-term employment with the training entity. This degree is alsodesigned to be a pre-apprenticeship preparation for an electrical career. This concentration provides students opportunities to gain the knowledge and skills needed to: read blueprints and technical diagrams; install and inspect wiring, control and lighting systems, including transformers and circuit breakers; and troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair or replace wiring and equipment safely to NEC standards using a variety of testing instruments, hand and power tools.

This is the first year core common to all concentrations within the Energy Systems Technology AAS degree program. All students should complete this first year course sequence prior to advancing to a concentration leading to the AAS degree.

Certificate Outcomes:

• Demonstrate knowledge of electrical safety, theory, vocabulary, and calculations of series, parallel, and combination circuits involving direct and alternating current.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of capacitors, resistive-inductive-capacitive reactance circuits, single and three-phase transformers, DC generators and motors, three-phase alternators, and single and three-phase motors.
• Demonstrate ability to read schematics, wire and test various types of electrical circuits.
• Demonstrate or describe proper safety procedures for working with rotating machinery, moving heavy objects, pressurized vessels and systems, chemicals, ladders and energy; electrical, heat, cold, fluid.
• Explain solid state components & devices.