Emphasis: Electronics, Robotics & Automation
Degree: Associate in Applied Science
Total Units: 96-98
Class Type: Lecture, Lab, Hybrid
Purpose: The goal of this program is to provide a graduate with the skills needed to find a job at a company that uses high-end automation equipment. This equipment ranges from devices controlled by programmable logic controllers (industrial computers) to robotic devices. A successful student will have learned core electronics skills, characteristics, and operation of various types of electric motors, pneumatics and embedded controllers.
Program Outcomes: Upon successful completion, students will have demonstrated the ability to:
- Safely operate equipment and evaluate situations for safety issues
- Work as members of a team in an office or industrial setting
- Determine quantitative solutions to AC/DC electronic circuits
- Apply common theorems and instrumentation to safely troubleshoot complex circuits
- Design, implement and maintain automated systems using Programmable Logic Controllers and industrial sensors
- Integrate modern microcontrollers into robotic systems to retrieve data and produce specified results
- Obtain, process and articulate visualizations of sets of data from industrial equipment, and use that data to propose logical system improvements
- • Think independently to obtain solutions, and to recognize the need to pursue results which exceed the minimum standards whenever possible.
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