Energy Systems Technology - Mechanical Electrical Concentration, AAS

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.

This concentration provides students opportunities to gain the knowledge and skills needed to: read blueprints or 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 devices and power tools.

Students must complete the Electrical Systems Technology Certificate (i.e. the year one core of the Energy Systems Technology degree) before they can complete the Mechanical Electrical Concentration.

Degree Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the highest standards of personal and professional safety.
2. Apply electrical: safety, theory, vocabulary, and calculations of series, parallel, and combination circuits involving direct and alternating current.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of: resistors, inductors and capacitors; resistive-inductive-capacitive reactance circuits, single and three-phase transformers, DC generators and motors, three-phase alternators, and single and three-phase motors.
4. Wire and test various types of electrical circuits based on their schematics.
5. Describe and apply proper safety procedures for working with rotating machinery, pressurized vessels and systems, chemicals, ladders and energy, electricity, hot and cold fluids, and heavy objects.
6. Explain the operation and function of solid-state components and devices.
7. Use programmable logic controls (PLC) and direct digital controls (DDC).
8. Install, maintain and repair equipment used for manufacturing, processing and packaging.

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.