Oct 10, 2024  
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog

Energy Systems Technology, AAS

Location(s): Walla Walla, Clarkston


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This technical degree prepares the student to enter into a cooperative training experience, often resulting in long-term employment with the training entity. This degree is designed as a pre-apprenticeship preparation.

Degree 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.
  • 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 and devices.
  • Demonstrate understanding of programmable logic controls (PLC) and direct digital controls (DDC).

Transferability: The AAS Degree is designed for students planning to enter their chosen career upon graduation. Often only selected credits are considered transferable to public or private baccalaureate institutions.

Year One


Year Two


Choose a degree concentration below for second year sequence:

  [Walla Walla]
    [Clarkston]
   [Walla Walla]

Grand Total: 91.4-102.4


PLAN CODE: EEIESAPT (Previously EPC: 780A)
REQUIRED: FYE (3 credits) required to be taken as well.
*AMATH 105  and AMATH 106  are for Certificate completion only, not for degree completion.
**Students will work with advisor to choose a concentration which will determine which elective courses will be taken.
The following courses meet the related instruction requirements of this certificate/degree (one course per category required):
(W) - ENGL& 101 

(M) - AMATH 106 
(O) - ACOM 102 , CMST& 210 , CMST& 240  
(R) - BUS 157 , PSYC& 100  

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