Energy Systems Technology - Electrical Heating and Cooling 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. The Electrical Heating and Cooling Concentration is for students who want to install, monitor, and manage heating, cooling, ventilation, electrical, security, and other building and campus scale systems using direct digital controls.

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 for residential and commercial heating and cooling systems.

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.