Electrical Technology (EET)
Introduces students to electrical hazards that are associated with working around electricity and the precautions that must be taken to ensure a safe working environment. Focuses on potential hazards that may be encountered on the job such as electric shock and arc flash. Covers personal protective equipment, Lock-Out-Tagout practices, tool safety, equipment safety, and guidelines for working in and around hazardous environments according to OSHA and the NFPA 70E. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours)
Introduces students to the telecommunication industry. Provides entry-level telecommunications cabling installers with the background, knowledge, and basic skills needed to function effectively on the job. Prepares students with little or no telecommunication installation experience. Lecture: 4 credits (75 contact hours).
Provides a technical level of understanding in the areas of networking connectivity, data communications concepts and communication protocols. Introduces students to communications and networking concepts including hardware, software, and transmission media; access methods and protocols; and network configurations area are addressed. Emphasizes local area networks, and installation of a basic network. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Introduces basic electricity concepts applicable to AC and DC circuits pertinent to the electrical technology industry. Provides an in-depth study of Ohm's Law, series, parallel, and series-parallel circuit characteristics. Focuses on providing students with an overview of common electrical safety practices, AC generation, AC and DC Principles, magnetic principles, transformers, capacitors, inductors, and basic electrical testing equipment along with a focus on the construction, calculation, measurement, and troubleshooting of various AC and DC circuits by way of laboratory exercises and classroom lecture. Lecture/Lab: 5.0 credits (45 contact hours Lecture / 60 contact hours Lab)
Serves as the capstone course for the Electrical Technology degree program and all of its concentrations. Integrates prior learning outcomes into a single integrated learning experience. Includes an exit exam that all program graduates must take. Lecture: 1 credit (15 contact hours).
Focuses on the operation, installation and application of AC single-phase and three-phase transformers. Emphasizes the testing and maintaining transformer equipment, with safety integrated as a core component of the study. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Focuses on the operation, installation and application of AC single-phase and three-phase transformers. Emphasizes the testing and maintaining transformer equipment, with safety integrated as a core component of the study. Pre-requisite (ELT 110 or EET 119) with a minimum grade of "C" or consent of Electrical Technology program advisor(s). Lab: 1 credit (30 contact hours).
Introduces students to the materials and procedures used in construction wiring. Prerequisite: (ELT 110 or EET 119) with a minimum grade of "C" or consent of Electrical Technology program advisor(s). Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Provides students hands-on experiences with electrical materials and equipment in construction wiring. Prerequisite: (ELT 110 or EET 119) with a minimum grade of "C" or consent of Electrical Technology program advisor(s). Laboratory: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Provides supervised on-the-job work experience related to the student's educational objectives. (Students participating in the Practicum Education program do not receive compensation for their work.) 2.0 credits (150 contact hours).
Introduces students to the history, terminology, theory, and common applications of robotic systems. Provides instruction in basic robot programming techniques, file execution and manipulation, coordinate systems, and file maintenance. Focuses students on robotic system components and preventative maintenance tasks. Prepares students to identify safety devices and utilize safety procedures while working with robotic systems. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 2.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Introduces students to advanced robot programming concepts used in manufacturing. Prepares students to work with various power systems used with a robotic system. Provides a basic introduction of concepts and techniques used to maintain electrical and mechanical robotic systems. Provides an introduction into vision systems used within a manufacturing environment. Prepares students to identify safety devices and utilize safety procedures while working with robotic systems. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 2.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Introduces students to robotic maintenance commonly performed on robots in manufacturing. Prepares students to back up software, isolate all electrical and mechanical power. Prepares students to perform preventative maintenance procedures according to manufacturer specifications. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 2.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Introduces students to vision systems commonly used with robots in manufacturing environments. Prepares students to setup, calibrate, and utilize vision systems. Prepares students to master the robot, create tool and user frames used with the vision system and process, and program the robot to respond to vision results. Provides hands on applications of procedures and utilization of common vision systems found in industry. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 2.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Emphasizes the importance of the National Electrical Code as it applies to electrical installations: electrical safety issues, prevention of fire due to the use of electrical energy, prevention of loss of life and property from the hazards that might arise from the use of electrical energy, and proper selection of electrical equipment for hazardous and non-hazardous environments. Provides a learning resource in the preparation for electrical licensing examinations. Lecture: 4 credits (60 contact hours).
Provides hands-on experiences needed to work in commercial and industrial construction wiring. Laboratory: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Focuses on the study of materials and procedures and expands the knowledge and skills needed to work in commercial and industrial construction wiring. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours).
Provides hands-on experiences with electrical materials and equipment related to commercial and industrial construction wiring. Laboratory : 4 credits (120 contact hours).
Focuses on the underlying principles of rotating electrical equipment including DC and AC motors and generating equipment construction, operating applications, and the maintenance of DC and AC motors and generating equipment. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Focuses on the principles of operation, application and maintenance of single-phase and three-phase AC motors and AC alternators, DC motors, DC generators. Introduces students to the standards of the National Electrical Code and its use. Lab: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Focuses on the principles of operation and application of single-phase and three-phase AC transformers to include: analysis of voltage, current and power parameters and connection configurations. Gives an in-depth study of direct and alternating current rotating machinery that produces and utilizes electrical energy. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Applies the principles of operation, application and maintenance of single-phase and three-phase AC transformers, motors and alternators, and DC motors and generators. Focuses on the compliance with current National Electric Code standards to insure safe installation methods. Lab: 3.0 credits (90 contact hours)
Focuses on the construction, operation and maintenance of DC motors and generators and AC motors and alternators. Addresses the diversity of control devices and applications used in industry today. Emphasizes the importance safety and electrical lockouts are also included. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Provides practical experience in the use of control devices and their applications in industry today. Focuses on the construction, operation and maintenance of AC motors and alternators, and DC motors and generators. Emphasizes the importance of safety and electrical lockouts. Laboratory: 4 credits (120 contact hours).
Addresses the diversity of control devices and applications used in industry today. Emphasizes the importance of safety and electrical lockouts. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Provides practical experience in the use of control devices and their applications in industry today. Emphasizes the importance of safety and electrical lockouts. Lab: 2 credit (60 contact hours).
Introduces advanced study of motor controls in industry. Focuses on solid state relays, hall effect sensors, proximity detectors and photo detectors. Provides "hands-on" instruction to include sketching, installing, and troubleshooting the following; three phase controls, variable speed drives using relays as well as solid state devices. Provides an introduction to the installation and programming of Programmable Logic Controllers. Lecture: 2 Credits (30 contact hours).
Provides hands-on experience in advanced studies in electrical controls used in industry including three-phase motor control and variable speed control using solid state devices and Programmable Logic Controllers. Prerequisite: EET 271 or EET 265 or EET 269 with a minimum grade of "C" or consent of Electrical Technology program advisor(s). Laboratory: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Addresses the diversity of control devices and applications used in industry today. Emphasizes the importance of safety and electrical lockouts. Focuses on the advanced study of motor controls in industry. Focuses on solid state relays, hall effect sensors, proximity detectors and photo detectors. Examines the sketching, installing and troubleshooting the following: three phase controls, variable speed drives, relays, solid state devices, and programmable controls. Lecture: 3.0 credits (45 contact hours).
Provides practical experience in the use of control devices and their applications in industry today. Emphasizes the importance of safety and electrical lockouts. Provides hands-on experience in advanced studies in electrical controls used in industry including three-phase motor control and variable speed control using solid state devices and programmable controls. Lab: 4.0 credits (120 contact hours).
Introduces principles and applications of programmable logic controllers including installation, logic fundamentals, and numbering systems; basic programming of inputs, outputs, timers, and counters, comparators, basic data manipulation, and safety circuits of industrial PLCs. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Provides practical applications of programmable logic controllers including installation, logic fundamentals, and numbering systems; basic programming of inputs, outputs, timers, and counters, comparators, basic data manipulation, and safety circuits of industrial. Lab: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Introduces students to multiple platforms of programmable logic controllers (PLC). Prepares students to wire, communicate with, program and troubleshoot multiple brands of PLCs. Introduces students to basic programming of inputs, outputs, internal relay, timers, counters, comparator, math and data manipulation instructions. Provides hands on lab application of multiple platforms of programmable logic controllers found in industry. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 4 credits (90 contact hours).
A course designed for the student who has demonstrated specific special needs. Laboratory: 1 credit (45 contact hours).
A course designed for the student who has demonstrated specific special needs. Laboratory: 2 credits (90 contact hours).
A course designed for the student who has demonstrated specific special needs. Laboratory: 3 credits (135 contact hours).
Focuses on sequencer instructions, shift registers, process control instructions, networking, communications, human to machine interfaces, and troubleshooting techniques used with programmable logic controllers. Lecture: 2 credits (30 contact hours).
Provides hands on lab applications dealing with sequencers, shift registers, networks, communication software, human to machine interfaces, analog devices, and troubleshooting. Laboratory: 2 credits (60 contact hours).
Introduces students to basic electrical troubleshooting concepts pertinent to the electrical technology industry. Provides an in-depth study of electrical troubleshooting using schematics, wiring diagrams, digital multi-meters, programmable logic controllers, and motoranalyzers. Prepares students to learn how to troubleshoot common electrical faults using a multi-meter. Focuses primarily on providing students with an overview of common electrical faults and how to pinpoint them using a programmable logic controllers. Integrated Lecture/Lab: 4 credits (90 contact hours).
Introduces students to the methods and equipment necessary for the installation and maintenances of photovoltaic and, wind electrical generation system. Covers the standards and requirements set forth by the National Electric Code and the National Association of Certified Energy Practitioners for alternative energy electrical generation systems. Lecture: 3 credits (45 contact hours). Lab: 1 credit (30 contact hours).
Provides supervised on-the-job work experience related to the student's educational objectives. (Students participating in the Practicum do not receive compensation). This course may be taken for 1 - 8 credits. Practicum: 1-8 credits (75-600 contact hours).
Provides supervised on-the-job work experience related to the student's educational objectives. (Students participating in the Cooperative Education program receive compensation for their work). This course may be taken for 1 - 8 credits.