Energy Systems Technology - Renewable Energy 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.  The Renewable Energy concentration prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to assemble, install, operate, maintain, and repair renewable energy systems. Includes instruction in installing, maintaining and testing various types of equipment.

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. Assemble and install renewable energy systems (solar, wind, hydro-electric);
9. Monitor and control/adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance, including: turbines, pumps, valves, gates, fans, controllers, filters, and instruments.

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.