Energy Systems Technology - Industrial Mechanics Concentration, AAS

This technical degree prepares the student to enter into a cooperative training experience in an energy related field. Often these training experiences result in long-term employment with the training entity. This degree is 
also designed to be a pre-apprenticeship preparation for an electrical career. Graduates of the Industrial Mechanics concentration will enter the workforce with the knowledge and skills to: Maintain and repair equipment and industrial machinery, such as: conveying systems, production machinery and packaging equipment; Control and operate plant equipment, such as: turbines, pumps, valves, gates, fans, and controllers; Read blueprints and technical diagrams; Identify electrical problems using a variety of testing devices; Repair or replace wiring, equipment, and instruments safely to NEC standards using hand and power tools.

Degree Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of electrical safety, theory, vocabulary, and calculations of series, parallel, and combination circuits involving direct and alternating current.
2. 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.
3. Ability to read schematics, wire and test various types of electrical circuits.
4. 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.
5. Explain solid state components and devices.
6. Demonstrate understanding of programmable logic controls (PLC) and direct digital controls (DDC).
7. Maintain and repair equipment and industrial machinery, such as: conveying systems, production machinery, and packaging equipment
8. Control and operate plant equipment, such as: turbines, pumps, valves, gates, fans, and controllers
9. Read blueprints or technical diagrams
10. Identify electrical problems using a variety of testing devices
11. Repair or replace wiring, equipment, and instruments safely to NEC standards using hand and power tools

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.

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 Industrial Maintenance Concentration.