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EPT 2010 - OSHA 10
Clock Hours: 10
Delivery Mode on-ground
Industry Certifications NCCER
Course Description: The goal of this course is to acquire OSHA 10 certification.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Training for OSHA certification.
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EPT 2020 - NCCER Plumbing Level 1
Clock Hours: 190
Delivery Mode on-ground
Industry Certifications NCCER
Course Description: The goal of this course is to introduce students to the plumbing profession.The student will learn some of the basic math used in plumbing and how to calculate pipe length. The goal of plumbing safety is for the student to be made aware of the common causes of plumbing-related accidents and injuries. Students will learn how to identify situations and unsafe conditions as well as how to handle and respond to these situations and conditions.The tools of the plumbing profession are used to measure, lay out, cut drill, bore, and ream. Students will learn how to safely use, properly care for, and maintain plumbing tools. The student will learn the types of construction drawings typically used in the plumbing trade, explain the relationship among these drawings, and discuss applicable code requirements. The student will learn how to read, interpret, and sketch construction drawings, as well as how to draw lines to scale. The student will learn about plastic pipe, copper tubing, cast-iron pipe, and steel pipe with the fittings.
Student Learning Outcomes: Intro to Plumbing Profession
- Describe the history of the plumbing profession.
- Identify the responsibilities of a person working in the plumbing industry.
- State the personal characteristics of a professional.
- Identify the stages of progress within the plumbing profession and its positive impact on society.
- Identify how green technology in incorporated into plumbing.
Plumbing Math
- Explain what the metric system is and how it is important in the plumbing trade.
- Square various numbers and take square roots of numbers, with and without a calculator.
- Identify the parts of a fitting and use common pipe-measuring techniques.
- Use fitting dimension table to determine fitting allowances and thread makeup.
- Calculate end-to-end measurements using filling allowances and thread makeup.
- Identify the functions of a construction calculator.
- Measure pipe using the following:
- End-to-end
- End-to-center
- Center-to-center
- End-to-face
- Face-to-face
- Face-to-throat
- Determine end-to-end dimensions by figuring allowances and thread makeup.
Plumbing Safety and Tools
- Describe the common unsafe acts and unsafe conditions that cause accidents.
- Describe how to handle unsafe acts and unsafe conditions.
- Explain how the cost of accidents and illnesses affects everyone on site.
- Demonstrate the use and care or appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Identify job-site hazardous work specific to plumbers.
- Explain how to work safely in and around a trench.
- Explain how to work safely in and around confined spaces.
- Demonstrate the proper use of ladders.
- Demonstrate how to maintain power tools safely.
- Describe and demonstrate the lockout/tagout process.
- Identify the benefits of a job safety analysis.
- Identify the basic hand and power tools used in the plumbing trade.
- Demonstrate the proper use of plumbing tools.
- Demonstrate the ability to select the proper tool (s) for tasks.
- Demonstrate proper maintenance and storage for hand and power tools.
- Describe the safety requirements for using power and hand tools common to the plumbing trade.
Reading Commercial Drawings
- Identify various plumbing drawings and describe how the different views are used.
- Identify the basic symbols used in schematic drawings of pipe assemblies
- Explain the types of drawings in a complete set of drawings and how they relate to each other.
- Interpret plumbing-related information from a set of drawings.
- Sketch an orthographic and isometric drawing.
- Use an architect’s scale to draw lines to scale and to measure lines drawn to scale.
- Describe how code requirements apply to certain drawings.
- Sketch an orthographic and isometric drawing.
Types, Installations, Testing Pipes & Fittings
- Plastic Pipe
- Identify the various types of plastic pipe.
- Identify the material properties, storage, and handling requirement of plastic pipe.
- Identify the types of fittings and valves used with plastic pipe.
- Identify the techniques used in hanging and supporting plastic pipe.
- Properly measure, cut, ad join plastic pipe.
- Identify the hazards and safety precautions associated with plastic pipe.
- Select correct types of materials for plastic piping systems.
- Identify types of fittings and valves and their uses.
- Select and appropriate personal protective equipment for working with plastic piping.
- Measure, cut, and join plastic piping.
- Copper Tube
- Identify the various types of copper tube.
- Identify the material properties, storage, and handling requirements of copper tube.
- Identify the types of fittings and valves used with copper tube.
- Identify the techniques used in hanging and supporting copper tube.
- Properly measure, cut , and join copper tube.
- Identify the hazards and safety precautions associated with copper tube.
- Cast-Iron Pipe
- Identify the various types of cast-iron pipe.
- Identify the material properties, storage, and handling requirements of cast-iron pipe.
- Identify the types of fittings and valves used with cast-iron pipe.
- Identify the techniques used in hanging and supporting cast-iron pipe.
- Properly measure, cut, and join cast-iron pipe.
- Identify the hazards and safety precautions associated with cast-iron pipe.
- Steel Pipe
- Identify the types of steel pipe.
- Identify the material properties, storage, and handling requirements of steel pipe.
- Identify the types of fittings and valves used with steel pipe.
- Identify the techniques used in hanging and supporting steel pipe.
- Properly measure, cut, and join steel pipe.
- Identify the hazards and safety precautions associated with steel pipe.
- Identify the common types of materials, schedules, sizes, and labels used for steel piping.
- Identify the various techniques used in hanging and supporting steel piping.
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EPT 2130 - NCCER Electrician Level 1
Clock Hours: 263
Delivery Mode on-ground
Industry Certifications NCCER
Course Description: This course discusses electrical hazards and various types of personal protective equipment (PPE) used to reduce injuries. It also covers standards related to electrical safety and OSHA. The tools required to work in the electrical field are discussed. This course is basic atomic theory that discusses units of electrical measurement and explains how unknown values can be determined using Ohm’s law and the power equation. It also provides an overview of schematic diagrams and describes how to calculate the value of a resistor. This course describes the purpose of the NEC and explains how to use it to find the installation requirements for various electrical devices and wiring methods. This course describes the various types of boxes and explains how to calculate the NEC fill requirements for outlet and junction boxes under 100 cubic inches. It covers mounting methods. Also, it covers conductor types, cable markings, color codes, and ampacity derating. The student will learn how to install conductors using fish tape and power conduit fishing systems.This course describes methods for hand bending conduit. It covers 90-degree bends, back-to-back bends, offset, and saddle bends. It also describes how to cut, ream, and thread conduit. This course describes the various types of raceway systems, along with their installation and NEC requirements. It also describes the use of various conduit bodies. This course describes how to interpret electrical drawings, including lighting plans, power rise diagrams, equipment schedules, and specifications. It also covers the use of architect’s and engineer’s scales. This course discusses basic load calculations and NEC requirements for residential electrical systems. It also describes how to lay out branch circuits, install wiring, size outlet boxes, and install wiring devices. This course covers the applications of various types of electrical test equipment and describes meter safety precautions and category ratings.
Student Learning Outcomes: Electrical Safety Tools
- Identify electrical hazards and their effects.
- Explain the effects of electrical shock on the human body.
- Explain how circuits are de-energized.
- Use of PPE to reduce the risk of injury and electrical safety.
- Identify OSHA requirements for protective equipment.
- Purpose of NFPA 70E.
- Identify safety requirements
- Identify the safety hazards associated with ladders, scaffolds, and lift equipment.
- Proper lifting techniques to avoid back injury.
- Identify confined space entry procedures.
- Work safely with dangerous materials.
- Select and use appropriate fall protection.
- Use of tools for electrical safety.
- Use of rubber gloves
- Insulating blankets
- Hot sticks
- Fuse pullers
- Shorting probes
- Safety glasses
- Face shields
- Hard hats
- GFCI device
- Work gloves
- Stepladders
- Straight ladders
- Safety harnesses
Electical Theory Circuits
- Describe atomic structure as it relates to electricity.
- Identify the components of an atom.
- Compare the atomic structures of conductors and insulators.
- Identify the role of magnetism in electrical devices.
- Identify the basic components in a power distribution system.
- Identify electrical units of measurement.
- Define current.
- Define voltage.
- Define resistance.
- Use Ohm’s law to solve for unknown circuit values.
- Read schematic diagrams.
- Identify the symbol for a resistor and determine its value based on color codes.
- Distinguish EPTween series and parallel circuits.
- Identify the instruments used to measure circuit values.
- Calculate electrical power.
- Explain the differences between EPTween series and parallel circuits.
- Identify the instruments used to measure circuit values.
National Electrical Codes
- Purpose and history of NEC
- Role of other organizations
- Use of NEC
- Samples of wiring specifications
Device Boxes. Conductors, and Cables
- Size and install outlet boxes
- Identify boxes and their applications.
- Identify outlet size boxes.
- Install outlet boxes.
- Install and identify size of pull and junction boxes.
- Identify size pull and junction boxes
- Install pull and junction boxes.
- Identify the appropriate box type and size for a given application.
- Show conduit entering and exiting for a straight pull.
- Show conduit entering and exiting at an angle.
- Classify conductors by wire size, insulation, and application.
- Identify wire sizes.
- Determine conductor ampacities.
- Identify conductor materials.
- Identify conductor insulation.
- Identify fixture wiring.
- Identify cable types and applications.
- Identify instrumentation control wiring.
- Install conductors in a conduit system.
- Install conductors using fish tape.
- Install conductors using pulling equipment.
- Install conductors in a raceway system.
Hand Bending
- Select and use hand bending equipment.
- Use geometry to make a bend.
- Make 90 degree bends.
- Make offset bends.
- Cut, ream, and thread conduit.
- Cut conduit using a hacksaw.
- Cut conduit using a pipe cutter.
- Ream conduit.
- Thread conduit.
- Cut and join PVC conduit.
Raceways and Fittings
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Select and install raceway systems.
- Identify types of conduit and their applications.
- Properly bond conduit for use as a ground path.
- Install metal conduit fittings.
- Make conduit-to-box connections.
- Identify raceway supports.
- Identify installation requirements for various construction methods.
- Select fasteners and anchors for the installation of raceway systems.
- Select and install tie wraps.
- Select and install screws.
- Select and install hammer-driven pins and studs.
- Identify the safety requirements for stud-type guns.
- Select and install masonry anchors.
- Select and install hollow-wall anchors.
- Select and install epoxy anchoring systems.
- Select and install wireways and other specialty raceways.
- Identify types of wireways and their components.
- Install wireway supports.
- Identify and install specialty raceways.
- Select and install cable trays.
- Identify cable tray types and fittings.
- Install cable tray supports.
- Handle and store raceways.
- Handle raceways.
- Store raceways.
Electrical Construction Drawing
- Identify types of construction drawings.
- Identify the information found on site plans.
- Identify the information found on floor plans.
- Identify the information found on elevation drawings.
- Identify the information found on sectional views.
- Identify the information found on title blocks.
- Interpret drafting lines.
- Work with scale drawings.
- Use an architect’s scale.
- Use an engineer’s scale.
- Use a metric scale.
- Read electrical drawings.
- Interpret electrical symbols.
- Analyze a set of electrical drawings.
- Identify fixtures in a lighting floor plan.
- Read block and schematic diagrams.
- Interpret written specifications.
Residential Electrical Services
- Size the electric service for a dwelling
- Calculate the electric service load.
- Apply demand factors.
- Calculate appliance loads.
- Size the load center.
- Identify the grounding requirements for a residential electrical system.
- Size grounding electrodes.
- Size the main bonding jumper.
- Install the equipment grounding system.
- Install service-entrance equipment.
- Identify the service drop location.
- Select the panelboard location.
- Identify wiring methods for various types of residences.
- Select and install cable systems.
- Select and install raceways.
- Lay out branch circuits and size outlet boxes.
- Complete the branch circuit layout for power.
- Complete the branch circuit layout for lighting.
- Install outlet boxes.
- Select and install various wiring devices.
- Select and install receptacles.
- Select and install switches.
- Install devices near residential swimming pools, spas, and hot tubs.
Test Equiptment
- Identify various types of electrical test equipment.
- Identify the applications of a voltmeter.
- Identify the applications of an ohmmeter.
- Identify the applications of an ammeter.
- Identify the applications of a multimeter.
- Identify the applications of other meters.
- Select a meter with the correct category rating for an application.
- Identify electrical test equipment safety hazards.
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EPT 2140 - NCCER Electrician Level 2
Clock Hours: 163
Delivery Mode on-ground
Industry Certifications NCCER
Course Description: This course describes the AC circuits and explains how to apply Ohm’s law to solve for unknown circuit values. It also explains how to make power calculations in AC circuits and describes various types of transformers and how they operate. The course describes AC and DC motors, including their components, circuits, and connections. Also the principles of human vision and the characteristics of light. It describes how to identify and install incandescent, LED, fluorescent, and HID lamps and ballasts. It also examines how to select and install various types of lighting fixtures and lighting controls. This course describes how to calculate and make conduit bends using mechanical, hydraulic, and electric benders.This course describes how to size and install pull and junction boxes. It also identifies various specialty enclosures, including conduit bodies, FS and FD boxes, and handholes. It also describes various types of cable tray, supports, and associated fittings and explains how to determine the loads on a cable tray and calculate fill per NEC requirements. This course describes how to prepare conduit for conductors. It also explains how to set up and complete a cable-pulling operation. It also explains how to prepare cable ends for terminations and splices. It also describes how to train cable at termination points and describes crimping techniques. This course describes the grounding and bonding requirements of NEC. It also explains how to size the main and system bonding jumpers as well and the grounding electrode conductor for various AC systems. This course describes the operating principles of circuit breakers and fuses. It also explains how to select and install overcurrent devices.This course describes the operating principles of contactors and relays, including both mechanical and solid-state devices. It also explains how to select and install relays and troubleshoot control circuits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Alternating Current
- Identify AC waveforms.
- Define the terminology of sine waves.
- Define AC phase relationships.
- Identify nonsinusoidal waveforms.
- Determine unknown values in AC circuits.
- Find unknown values in purely resistive AC circuits.
- Find unknown values in inductive AC circuits.
- Find unknown values in capacitive AC circuits.
- Find unknown values in combination circuits.
- Make power calculations in AC circuits.
- Calculate true power.
- Calculate apparent power.
- Calculate reactive power.
- Calculate power factor.
- Use the power triangle to determine unknown values.
- Identify transformers and explain how they operate.
- Identify the basic components in a transformer.
- Identify transformer operating characteristics.
- Calculate turns and voltage ratios.
- Identify various types of transformers and their applications.
Motors and Lighting
- Identify direct current (DC) motors and describe their operating characteristics.
- Understand how DC motors operate.
- Identify types of DC motors.
- Identify alternating current (AC) motors and describe their operating characteristics.
- Understand how AC motors operate.
- Identify three-phase induction motors.
- Identify synchronous motors.
- Identify single-phase induction motors.
- Identify variable-speed drives and describe their operating characteristics.
- Identify types of adjustable speed loads.
- Identify types of motor speed control.
- Identify breaking methods.
- Identify motor enclosures, frame designations, and operating characteristics.
- Identify types of motor enclosures.
- Identify NEMA frame designations.
- Identify motor operating characteristics using nameplate data.
- Identify the connections and terminal markings for AC motors.
- Identify the terminals of wye-connected motors.
- Identify the terminals of delta-connected motors.
- Identify the NEC requirements for motors.
- Identify NEC installation requirements.
- Identify NEC motor protection requirements.
- Explain the relationship EPTween human vision and light.
- Identify how the human eye operates.
- Identify the characteristics of light.
- Identify and install lamps and ballasts.
- Identify and install lamps.
- Identify and install ballasts.
- Select and install lighting fixtures for various applications.
- Identify lighting fixtures and their applications.
- Store and handle lamps and lighting fixtures.
- Install light fixtures.
- Select lighting controls for various applications.
- Select occupancy sensors.
- Select photosensors.
- Use Lighting timers.
- Program energy management systems.
Conduit Bending
- Identify the NEC requirements of conduit bends.
- Identify the minimum radius requirements for various types of conduit.
- Calculate the number of bends per run.
- Use equations to find bend distances.
- Use right-angle mathematics to find bend distances.
- Use the circumference of a circle to determine bend distances.
- Use mechanical benders.
- Chart a mechanical bender.
- Make mechanical bends.
- Use electric and hydraulic conduit benders.
- Use electric conduit benders.
- Use hydraulic conduit benders.
- Install PVC conduit.
- Join PVC conduit.
- Bend PVC conduit.
Pull & Junction Boxes, Cable Tray
- Identify boxes and fittings.
- Select pull and junction boxes.
- Select and install fittings.
- Size pull and junction boxes.
- Size pull and junction boxes for systems under 1,000V.
- Size pull and junction boxes for systems over 1,000V.
- Identify specialty enclosures.
- Identify conduit bodies and other cast enclosures.
- Select and install handholes.
- Identify cable tray components.
- Select cable tray fittings.
- Identify cable tray supports.
- Calculate the load on a cable tray.
- Determine the load on supports
- Identify types of failure under load.
- Identify installation requirement for cable tray.
- Determine cable tray fill.
- Determine the number of conductors allowed in cable tray operating at 2,000V or less.
- Identify derating factors for cable tray conductors.
Conductor Installations & Terminations
- Install cable in conduit systems.
- Plan the installation.
- Identify a pulling location and set up the cable reels.
- Prepare raceways for conductors.
- Install a pull line.
- Prepare the cable ends for pulling.
- Select cable-pulling equipment.
- Set up for high-force cable pulling.
- Set up the feeding end.
- Support conductors.
- Pull cable in cable trays.
- Identify cable limitations when pulling.
- Calculate the allowable tension on pulling devices.
- Calculate the allowable tension on conductors.
- Calculate the sidewall loading.
- Strip and train conductors.
- Strip small conductors.
- Strip large conductors.
- Bend cable and train conductors.
- Make wire connections.
- Install various types of connectors.
- Make aluminum connections.
- Install control and signal cables.
- Reinsulate electrical connections.
- Tape electrical connections.
- Install heat-shrink insulators and use motor connection kits.
Grounding and Bonding
- Identify grounding requirements and applications.
- Identify the purpose of grounding and bonding.
- Identify the grounding requirements for various systems.
- Identify service grounding methods.
- Size and install a grounding electrode conductor.
- Select other electrodes.
- Size and select equipment grounding.
- Size and equipment grounding conductor.
- Ground an enclosure.
- Bond service equipment.
- Size the main bonding jumper.
- Bond multiple service disconnects.
- Bond enclosures and equipment.
- Ground and bond separately derived systems.
- Ground separately derived systems.
- Install grounding at more than one building.
- Test for effective grounds.
- Measure earth resistance using the fall-of-potential method.
- Complete a three-point test.
Circuit Breakers & Fuses
- Identify the function of overcurrent protective devices.
- Identify types of overcurrent conditions.
- Identify NEC requirements for overcurrent protective devices.
- Size and select circuit breakers.
- Identify circuit breaker components.
- Identify circuit breaker types and ratings.
- Size and select fuses.
- Identify fuse types and markings.
- Size fuses.
- Coordinate the operation on overcurrent protective devices.
Contron Systems & Concepts
- Identify magnetic and mechanically held contactors.
- Select lighting contactors.
- Make forward and reverse motor contactor connections.
- Select mechanically held contactors.
- Select and troubleshoot relays.
- Select control relays.
- Select timers and timing relays
- Select solid-state relays.
- Select overload relays.
- Troubleshoot relays.
- Install low-voltage remote control switching systems.
- Identify remote control switching system components and operating characteristics.
- Plan and install a remote control switching system.
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EPT 3020 - NCCER Plumbing Level 4
Clock Hours: 245
Delivery Mode on-ground
Industry Certifications NCCER
Course Description: This course introduces students to concepts and practices that are essential for competitive, successful plumbing businesses. It also covers basic accounting and project estimating, as well as techniques for cost control and task organization. This course teaches the skills needed to become an effective crew leader. It also covers basic leadership skills, safety, and project control. This course builds on students’ previous experience with pumps, storage tanks, controls, and pipes and fittings by teaching them to assemble these components into systems that boost water pressure and provide hot water. This course describes the code requirements and installation procedures for systems that protect against contamination from indirect and special wastes. This course introduces the basic types of hydronic and solar heating systems and their components. It also reviews hydronic and solar heating system layout, installation, testing, and balancing. This course teaches the students about basic pipe systems, fixtures, and repair of appliances. This course describes the operation of pumps and well components. This course introduces students to plumbing systems in swimming pools, hot tubs, and spas.
Student Learning Outcomes: Business Principles
- Identify cost control measures.
- Identify the information required to prepare a material takeoff.
Skills for Crew Leader
- Discuss the leadership role that is needed in the field.
- List the characteristics of effective leaders.
- Explain the importance of safety.
- Describe the three phases of a construction project.
- Describe the difference EPTween authority, responsibility, and accountability.
Water Pressure
- Describe the characteristics of a water pressure booster system and identify its components.
- Describe the characteristics of a recirculation system and identify its components.
Indirect and Special Waste
- Identify indirect waste systems.
- Identify special waste systems.
Hydronic & Solar Heating Systems
- Describe the principles of hydronic and solar heating systems.
- Describe the basic types of hydronic and solar heating systems and their components.
- Describe the procedures for roughing-in, installing, and testing hydronic and solar heating system piping.
Pipe Systems, Fixtures & Appliance Repair
- Describe the basic pipe system and its uses.
- Explain the choices of fixtures as options.
- Basic repair of some appliances.
Private Water Supply Well Systems & Disposal Systems
- Explain how to drill wells, size, construction, and clean wells.
- Explain the operation of various types of pumps and pump components.
- Explain how to select and install water supply and storage components.
- Describe the type of private waste disposal systems.
- Explain how to locate and size private waste disposal systems.
- Explain how to install private waste disposal systems.
- Explain how to clean and service private waste disposal systems.
Service Plumbing
- Explain how to size and install swimming pool systems and components.
- Identify hot tub and spa systems and their components.
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ESCI 1010 - Weather and Climate
Credit hours: 4
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ESCI 1020 - Landforms
Credit hours: 4
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FAT 0001 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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FAT 0002 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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FAT 0003 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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FAT 1020 - Forestry Technology
Clock Hours: 18
Course Description: This course covers the techniques, procedures, and equipment used to measure tree and forest parameters, including various forest products.
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FAT 1030 - Introduction to Forestry
Clock Hours: 40
Course Description: This course will be an introduction to topography and soils, physiographic regions, forest types, forestland ownership and forest certification.
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FAT 1040 - Manufacturing Forest Products
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course will provide knowledge in the forestry areas of pulp and paper as well as sawmills, types of engineered wood products and cover wood energy and secondary wood products.
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FAT 1050 - Cruising Timber and Determining Volume
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course will begin with tree identification, land measurement and provide knowledge in the areas of boundary marking & maintenance, tree measurements, volume and tree weight and use of aerial photography and GPS.
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FAT 1060 - Harvesting Timber
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course will discuss marketing Timber, harvesting systems, best management practices (BMPs), forest roads, closing harvest, and logging safety.
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FAT 1070 - Growing Trees
Clock Hours: 40
Course Description: This course will provide knowledge in basic tree growth concepts, silvicultural systems, regeneration techniques, site preparation, and planting.
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FAT 1080 - Managing Forest Stands
Clock Hours: 40
Course Description: This course will provide study in vegetation management, prescribed burning, thinning, fertilization and pruning.
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FAT 1090 - Protecting Forests
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This unit will discuss risks to forest, wildfires, insects and disease and nonnative invasive plants.
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FAT 1100 - Non-Timber Forest Resources
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course will provide knowledge in forest management for wildlife and an overview of oil, gas and minerals.
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FAT 1110 - Legal Issues in Forestry
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course will cover property rights, boundary disputes, easements and right-of-ways, trespass and encroachment, liability and timber theft.
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FAT 1120 - Working in Forestry
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course will cover many occupations involved in forestry work to include logging, forestry and forest production manufacturing.
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FAT 2010 - Safety
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course will provide students of the knowledge and application of basic safety procedures in the agricultural workplace including current Occupational and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines, CPR certification, and First Aid training.
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FAT 2020 - Introduction to Agriculture
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course is an overview of the fundamental principles of agriculture which prepares students to understand agriculture technology. This course introduces students to basic skills and knowledge in construction and land management, agriculture mechanics, irrigation and drainage, and agriculture business.
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FAT 2030 - Agri-Business
Clock Hours: 36
Course Description: This course is a study of the general principles in farm accounting and financial analysis including financial statements. Students will be informed of the different credit agencies and what they have to offer beginning farmers. Students will learn what is required of them to obtain credit. Communication between lender and the farmer is also discussed.
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FAT 2040 - Computer Essentials
Clock Hours: 36
Course Description: This course covers the operation of the personal computer including both the hardware and software concepts. It includes an overview of a professional computer operating system, word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail usage, Internet operations, and agriculture software.
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FAT 2050 - Word Applications
Clock Hours: 36
Course Description: This course will provide an overview of the different features of Microsoft Word. Participants will learn to use Microsoft Word to produce professional-looking documents. Features included are typing, formatting, editing, document spacing, margins, page numbering and saving a document.
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FAT 2060 - Hydrology
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course will provide an introduction to physical and applied hydrology and explores the components of the hydrologic cycle including processes of precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, infiltration, ground-water flow, surface runoff and streamflow.
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FAT 2070 - Soil Science
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course will introduce students to basic plant and soil science. Topics include plant growth development, composition of row crops and pastureland, soil conservation, and environmental factors that affect crop and grassland maintenance.
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FAT 2080 - Introduction to Geographic information Systems
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course is designed to introduce the student to the basic principles and techniques of Geographic Information Systems and the practice of geospatial analysis.
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FAT 2090 - Basic Industrial Electricity and Electronics
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course introduces safety, basic circuits/theory, introduction to NEC (National Electrical Code), device boxes and conduit bending/installation, raceway/fittings, conductors/cables, electrical drawings, test equipment and materials associated with farmstead maintenance.
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FAT 2100 - Basic Agriculture Machinery and Maintenance
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course provides the student basic engine system operation and maintenance skills and knowledge. Provides the students with knowledge and skills needed to maintain and service the electrical systems associated with agricultural machinery and livestock equipment, including the selection of components and their replacement. Students will maintain and troubleshoot agricultural machinery, livestock equipment, electrical systems, such as monitors, special lighting, electrical solenoids and controls, and coolant systems.
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FAT 2110 - Welding
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course introduces the processes of Shielded Metal Arc Welding (Stick Welding), Thermal Cutting, and Brazing. Safety for students such as Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) and safe welding practices in the welding shop will be emphasized. Welding and cutting equipment, selection of welding supplies, and materials that are used in industry are introduced.
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FAT 3010 - Spreadsheet Applications
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course is a study of the general principles in forestry accounting and financial analysis including financial statements. Students will be informed of the different credit agencies and what they have to offer beginning foresters. Students will learn what is required of them to obtain credit. Communication between lender and the farmer is also discussed.
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FAT 3020 - Equipment Safety
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course will provide students of the knowledge and application of basic safety procedures related to heavy equipment operation in the field of forestry.
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FAT 3030 - Basic Sawmill Operation
Clock Hours: 42
Course Description: This course will provide students with knowledge pertaining to logging, debarking, metal detection, merchandising, edging, and drying, as well as other aspects of sawmill operations.
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FAT 3040 - Saw Filing
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: This course teaches the student how to safely maintain saw equipment, perform machine alignment, and provide preventative maintenance to saw filing machine. This provides safe operation of saw equipment and is crucial to operating an efficient sawmill.
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FAT 3050 - Lumber Grading
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course will help students better understand lumber grading rules, grading techniques and different types of defects and characteristics common to various species of lumber.
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FAT 3060 - Basics of Forestry Machinery
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course deals with advanced aspects of forestry machinery maintenance and the typical problems which could determine profit and loss. How much machinery, what size, how acquired, alternatives to owning, and machine costs are all studied. Methods will be presented for the selection of forest land preparation, planting, crop maintenance, harvesting, and transportation equipment.
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FAT 3070 - Suspension, Steering and Brakes
Clock Hours: 54
Course Description: This course will provide students with a fundamental knowledge of brakes, suspension, alignment and tires, as well as knowledge related to performing basic brake and suspension repair, alignment and tire service.
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FAT 3080 - Heavy Equipment Operation
Clock Hours: 54
Course Description: This course will prepare students to operate logging equipment used in the industry, as well as provide the students with fundamental concepts and safety specific to operating equipment.
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FAT 3090 - Advanced Forestry Machinery and Maintenance
Clock Hours: 48
Course Description: This course covers advanced technologies utilized in precision forestry. Topics include the following: variable rate control of seed, chemicals, and fertilizer; advanced planter monitors; automatic section control; remote crop health sensing technologies; components, calibration, installation, and troubleshooting of variable rate equipment.
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FAT 3100 - Forestry Occupations
Clock Hours: 12
Course Description: This course will provide students with an orientation to forestry occupations, forestry mechanics, and forestry management.
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FAT 3110 - Co-op and Work-Based Learning Experience
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: Work based learning opportunities will be provided to students through Co-op arrangements to provide the students with practical real-life experiences in the field of Forestry. These work based learning opportunities will allow students to connect the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom with learning experiences in the workplace.
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GEN 1010 - First Year Seminar
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HED 120 - Introduction to Wellness
Credit hours: 3
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HEO 0002 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: This course uses ten identified traits to develop a more viable and effective employee for the workforce. The course will assist the students to begin employment with positive work ethic skills which will enhance their value as employees.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Attendance
- Attends class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies).
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honesty, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline, and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is asked of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive?
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communications
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Demonstrates problem-solving capabilities.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment.
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HEO 1010 - Technology Foundations
Clock Hours: 20
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: Technology Foundations is an academic learning support course needed by a student to be successful in technical college programs and/or to meet minimum applied mathematics, graphic literacy, and reading, and writing g for information competencies as required by faculty in programs. The purpose of learning support is to enhance academic success in technical college programs and increase the likelihood of program completion that will prepare students for career success in their chosen field of study.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Reading material such as workplace documents such as messages, emails, letters, directions, signs, bulletins, manuals, policies, contracts, and regulations.
- Using the information read to make job-related decisions and solve problems.
- Identify correct meaning of a word when the word is defined in the reading.
- Identify correct meaning of a word based on how the word is used in passage.
- Identify acronyms, jargons or technical terms that are defined in passage.
- Identify purposes, main idea and/or topics in messages.
- Identify details that support topics in messages.
- Identify needed actions from messages.
- Identify steps, and sub steps, in a set of directions.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions in correct order.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions that include if-then-else statements.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions that include maps, diagrams or floor plans.
- Identify cause and effect in directions.
- Solve problems from troubleshooting directions using cases and effects.
- Apply general reading strategies for reading directions.
- Find information in indexes, tables of contents, and glossaries.
Basic Writing
- Produce writing that consists of complete sentences.
- Exhibit organization of thoughts and ideas.
- Develop writing using proper sentence parts/parts of speech and sentence structure.
- Use punctuation and capitalization appropriately.
- Demonstrate proper use of plural forms for names, compound words and numbers.
- Identify verb tenses and demonstrate using them properly.
- Identify adjectives and adverbs and demonstrate using them properly.
- Identify commonly misspelled words.
- Proofread and edit writing.
- Write structurally, grammatically, and mechanically correct sentences.
- Demonstrate the phases of writing including draft, revision, and final copy.
- Construct an easy-to-follow, logical progression of ideas and information.
Graphic Literacy
- Read, review and interpret simple to more complex graphs, charts (bar, line, & pie), and tables.
- Identify trends and patterns in graphs, charts and/or tables; and locate information in graphs, charts and/or tables.
- Read and interpret blueprints, schematic drawings, diagrams, specifications, and/or work orders/ticketing systems.
- Read and understand various equipment gauges, valves, levels, dials, dashboards, etc. for operation monitoring.
- Follow and understand checklists.
- Practice visualization to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved, rearranged, or newly assembled.
- Demonstrate an understanding of data relationships and comparing trends - variables, dependency, creating summaries, etc.
- Draw conclusions and/or apply data from graphs, charts, and/or tables to specific situations.
- Evaluate information/data to determine compliance with standards.
- Making decisions and solving problems by analyzing information/data and evaluating results.
- Ability to concentrate on a task over time without being distracted.
Applied Mathematics
- Efficiently and accurately solve basic mathematical operations dealing with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
- Apply basic mathematical operations to applied mathematical situations.
- Apply basic graphing and statistical principals to a technical field.
- Efficiently and accurately solve basic algebraic methods and operations.
- Calculate one- and two-step conversions.
- Calculate averages, simple ratios, proportions and rates using whole numbers and decimals.
- Locate and use appropriate formulas.
- Calculate using mixed units.
- Calculate perimeter and areas of basic shapes.
- Calculate percentage discounts or markups.
- Decide what information, calculations, or unit conversions to use to find the answer to a problem.
- Identify where a mistake occurred in a calculation.
- Solve problems that require mathematical operations using mixed units - ie. 6 feet 2 inches.
- Conversions between standard and metric measurements.
- Able to work multiplication and division with ease.
- Calculate volume of basic shapes.
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HEO 1030 - Heavy Equipment Safety
Clock Hours: 60
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: Working in and around heavy equipment is hazardous. Heavy equipment operators and other workers need to work together to keep the job site safe. The heavy equipment operator’s job is to operate the equipment in a manner that protects both the operator and other workers. When working around heavy equipment, operators must act in a way that does not place them or their co-workers in danger of an accident. This course covers some of the dangers about working around heavy equipment. Because heavy equipment work is hazardous, there are a number of specific rules and procedures in place to decrease the chances for an accident. This module provides basic information about how to stay safe around heavy equipment.
Student Learning Outcomes: Competency 1:
Explain work zone safety requirements.
- Describe signs, barriers, and other devices and methods used for work zone safety.
- Describe traffic control safety methods.
Competency 2:
Explain hazard communication.
- Explain the purpose and content of Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Describe the labeling systems used for hazardous materials.
- Describe noise control methods.
Competency 3:
Identify and describe safety practices associated with heavy equipment operation.
- List job site and equipment safety requirements.
- Explain the safety hazards associated with weather.
- Explain safety practices associated with equipment maintenance.
Competency 4:
Identify safety practices associated with trenches and excavations.
- Explain how soil composition relates to trench failures.
- Describe the methods used to protect workers in trenches and excavations.
- Identify personal safety hazards related to dust and soils.
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HEO 1040 - Identification of Heavy Equipment
Clock Hours: 20
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: There are many different types of machines in the heavy equipment domain. Each machine was initially designed for a particular type of work, but many can be modified with attachments to perform other functions. Heavy equipment operators must know the capabilities and limitations of the machine being operated. Operators also must be familiar with the various attachments that can be used with any given machine and know how to use them. With such levels of knowledge, the equipment operator will have many opportunities for advancement.
Student Learning Outcomes: Competency 1:
Identify and describe heavy equipment used in construction and mining.
- Identify and describe equipment used in excavating and grading construction sites.
- Identify and describe trenching equipment.
- Identify and describe heavy equipment used in mining.
Competency 2:
Describe the vehicle drive systems used in heavy equipment.
- Describe engines used in heavy equipment.
- Describe auxiliary systems, including fuel, exhaust, cooling, electrical, lubrication, and air filtration systems.
Competency 3:
Explain hydraulic systems and their components.
- Explain hydraulic system fundamentals.
- Identify and describe the equipment and components used in hydraulic systems.
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HEO 1050 - Basic Operational Techniques
Clock Hours: 100
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: Learning to operate a piece of heavy equipment is something like learning to drive and take care of a car. One of the first things an operator must learn is how to check the vehicle before starting it. Visual inspections of the vehicle are critical. The tires should appear to be inflated and undamaged. The lights and horn should be functional. All vehicle body parts need to be in place and usable. After the vehicle has been checked out, the operator should get into the operator’s seat, fasten the seat belt, and become familiar with all the instruments and controls.
After verifying that the vehicle is safe to use, and after becoming familiar with the controls, the operator can start the vehicle, move it forward, change its direction, stop it, and move it backwards before parking it. Heavy equipment operators must learn to do such basic actions before they can move on to operating any attachments installed on the heavy equipment.
Student Learning Outcomes: Competency 1
Describe the prestart procedures for heavy equipment.
- Describe how to safely mount a vehicle.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for equipment, attachments, and tires.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for power trains.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for hydraulic systems.
- Describe common operator prestart inspection procedures for electrical systems.
Competency 2:
Describe the procedures for starting, operating, and shutting down heavy equipment.
- Describe how to perform initial checks.
- Describe basic operating procedures for the various items of equipment.
- Explain how to properly shut down and secure equipment.
Competency 3:
Perform basic prestart inspection, startup, operational movement, and shutdown for 3 of the 13 listed pieces of heavy equipment:
- Utility tractors
- Dozers
- Loaders
- Backhoes
- Excavators
- Compaction equipment
- Motor graders
- Scrapers
- On-road dump trucks
- Off-road dump trucks
- Forklifts
- Skid steers
- Trenchers
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HEO 1070 - Introduction to Earthmoving and Gradng
Clock Hours: 46
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: One of the main purposes of heavy equipment operations is moving earth to excavate, fill, and shape the land surface. In this module you will receive an overview of the various aspects of earthmoving operations. These include the planning and safety measures involved, typical equipment used, grading methods, worksite practices, and soil properties and stabilization.
Heavy equipment operators are often involved in moving earth to level the ground in preparation for planned construction. The proper completion of this phase is essential for the ultimate stability of the final structure or road. Project engineers coordinate the work of surveyors and equipment operators to establish the required land surface, cutting high areas and filling low areas as needed. In this module, you will receive an introduction to the surveying and civil-engineering methods involved in changing the lay of the land’s surface as part of a construction project.
Student Learning Outcomes: Describe earthmoving operations.
- Describe the general approach to excavations and related planning.
- Describe the characteristics of different types of soils.
- Explain how plans and specifications are used in earthmoving.
- Describe methods used to lay out slopes and grades.
- Explain how to set up and coordinate operations, including setting up of staging areas, determining cycle times, and site preparation.
- Describe site drainage requirements.
- Explain the safety practices related to earthmoving operations.
Competency 2:
Describe the equipment and methods used in excavating.
- Describe how to measure production for various earthmoving activities.
- Describe the equipment and methods used in loading excavated soil.
- Describe the equipment and methods used in hauling excavated soil.
- Describe the equipment and methods used in dumping excavated soil.
- Describe fill, backfill, and embankment construction.
Competency 3:
Describe the different methods used in stabilizing soils.
- Identify the different types of binders.
- Explain how to apply binders to soil.
- Explain soil compacting.
Competency 4:
Explain how to plan and lay out a site for grading.
- Explain the planning process for grading.
- Explain how to mark and set grade stakes.
Competency 5:
Describe the equipment and methods used in making site measurements and establishing finish grades.
- Explain how to make horizontal and vertical measurements.
- Describe the electronic equipment and systems used in site measurement and grading.
- Explain how to establish and check finish grade.
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HEO 1080 - Basic Small/Medium Equiptment Stick
Clock Hours: 100
Delivery Mode on-ground
Prerequisites: HEO 1060: Basic Simulations
Course Description: This course is an introduction and operation of actual common small / medium heavy equipment. This course provides a safe hands-on experience for the students utilizing on-campus and job-site space under a controlled environment. Students will operate the equipment to competencies defined by the instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Equipment control
- Spatial Awareness
- Precision in Maneuvers
- Understanding Machine Functions
- Effective Communication
- Applied Safety
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HEO 2010 - Excavation Math
Clock Hours: 60
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: This course provides training on the formulas and calculations used to determine the amounts of soil and other material to be removed from or added to a job-site excavation, focusing on volume and weight calculations.
Student Learning Outcomes: Explain how to use formulas.
- Explain the sequence of operations in solving a problem using a formula.
- Explain how squares and square roots are derived.
- Define angles and identify the types of angles.
Competency 2:
Explain how math is used to solve right triangle problems.
- Explain how to determine the length of a slope.
- Explain how a building is laid out using right triangle math.
Competency 3:
Define area and explain why determining the area of a space is required.
- Determine the area of squares and rectangles.
- Determine the area of a triangle.
- Determine the area of a trapezoid.
- Determine the area of a circle.
Competency 4:
Define volume and explain the purpose of calculating volume.
- Calculate the volume of a cube.
- Calculate the volume of a prism.
- Calculate the volume of a cylinder.
- Describe the estimating process used to determine the volume and weight of simple and complex excavations.
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HEO 2030 - Soils and Site Work
Clock Hours: 90
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: This course describes the work involved in preparing a site for excavation and construction. The module first identifies important site safety practices. Other key topics include controlling water on a site, establishing grades, and laying pipe. Further, the course introduces trainees to the various types of soils, their properties, and how these properties affect the heavy equipment operator.
Student Learning Outcomes: Describe the safety practices associated with site grading work.
- Explain the purpose of a site safety program.
- Describe why safety inspections and investigations are important.
- Explain how hazardous materials are controlled on a job site.
- Describe safety practices associated with trenching and excavations.
- Describe how to prepare heavy equipment for transporting.
Competency 2:
Describe the methods used to control water on job sites.
- Explain the importance of maintaining proper drainage on a job site.
- Describe the methods used to control groundwater and surface water.
- Describe the safety practices and construction methods used when working around bodies of water
Competency 3:
Explain how grades are established on a job site.
- Describe how to set grades from a benchmark.
- Describe how grades are set for highway construction.
- Describe how grades are set for building construction.
- Explain how grading operations are performed.
- Describe the use of stakeless and stringless grading systems
Competency 4:
Describe grading and installation practices for pipe-laying operations.
- Explain how grades are established for pipelaying operations.
- Describe the equipment and methods used to lay pipe.
Competency 5:
Describe the different types and characteristics of soils.
- Identify the types of soils.
- Describe the properties of soils.
- Explain how soil density is determined.
- Explain how moisture affects soil.
Competency 6:
Describe the factors that affect soil excavation.
- Explain what the swell factor is and how to calculate the swell factor of soils.
- Explain what the shrink factor is and how to calculate the shrink factor of soils.
- Describe how swell and shrink factors affect cycle times and equipment selection.
Competency 7:
Describe working in various soil conditions.
- Describe the weight bearing and flotation properties of different soils.
- Explain how soil characteristics affect machine performance.
- Describe how soil conditions can affect trenching safety.
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HEO 2040 - Common Earthmoving Equiptment
Clock Hours: 90
Delivery Mode on-ground
Course Description: This course provides training on the primary components of a skid steer, prestart inspections, preventive maintenance, and the proper operating procedures. Common procedures used by skid steer operators on site are also presented. In addition, this course provides training on the primary components of a loader, prestart inspections, preventive maintenance, and the proper operating procedures. Common procedures used by loader operators on site are also presented. Further, this course provides training on the primary components, prestart inspections, preventive maintenance, and the proper operating procedures of a scraper. Common procedures used by scraper operators on site are also presented.
Student Learning Outcomes: Competency 1:
Identify and describe the components of a skid steer, loaders, scrappers.
- Identify and describe chassis components.
- Identify and describe skid steer, loader and scrapper controls.
- Identify and describe skid steer, loader, and scrapper instrumentation.
- Identify and describe skid steer, loader, and scrapper attachments.
Competency 2:
Describe the prestart inspection and preventive maintenance requirements for a skid steer, loader, and scrapper.
- Describe prestart inspection procedures.
- Describe preventive maintenance requirements.
Competency 3:
Describe the startup, shutdown, and operating procedures for a skid steer, loader, and scrapper.
- Identify related safety guidelines.
- Describe startup, warm-up, and shutdown procedures.
- Describe basic maneuvers and operations.
- Describe related work activities.
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HHP 1300 - First Aid and CPR
Credit hours: 3
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): American Heart Association Healthcare Provider CPR certification
Course Description: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid including the use of an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). Topics include adult and infant CPR (both one-man and two-man), basic first aid and AED use. American Heart Association Healthcare Provider CPR Certification will be awarded upon successful completion.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- The student will successfully demonstrate all competencies necessary for Healthcare Provider CPR certification to American Heart Association standards.
- The student will successfully demonstrate all competencies necessary for First Aid certification to American Heart Association standards.
- The student will successfully demonstrate all competencies necessary to properly operate a Bag Valve Mask (BVM) and an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).
- The student will demonstrate how to properly recognize and to properly assist in treating breathing emergencies like choking, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- The student will demonstrate how to properly recognize and to properly assist in treating medical emergencies like Heart Attack, Stroke, Fainting, Seizures, Shock, and Diabetic emergencies.
- The student will demonstrate all competencies necessary to perform a proper head to toe survey of a patient and to properly report information to responding medical personnel.
- The student will demonstrate how to control internal and external bleeding and shock in a patient by the use of multiple methods (like direct pressure bandages, elevation, and direct pressure to appropriate pressure points).
- The student will demonstrate how to properly identify and to treat soft tissue injuries (like laceration, incision, avulsion and amputation injuries) and burns (1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree).
- The student will demonstrate how to properly identify and to treat musculoskeletal injuries (like dislocations, sprains, and strains) using the Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation (RICE) method.
- The student will demonstrate how to properly work with other rescuers and take the lead in treatment when appropriate.
- The student will demonstrate how to properly recognize environmental emergencies and properly treat patients who are victims of such emergencies.
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HIMT 2209 - Data Analysis and Statistics
Credit hours: 2
Prerequisites: Pre- and corequisites should be defined by individual institutions and must be courses from General Education Requirements - Core and Major Field Core Courses.
Course Description: This course instructs students in health data collection, commonly used healthcare statistical computations and interpretation, presentation and reporting of data, indices, databases and registries along with statistics computed for daily operations of the health information management department. This course also includes basic research principles along with purpose of Institutional Review Board and its role in research.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to:
- Utilize basic descriptive, institutional, healthcare statistics, and HIM department statistics.
- Apply graphical tools for data presentations.
- Identify and understand secondary data sources.
- Explain data analytics and decision support.
- Explain common research methodologies used in healthcare.
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HMGT 2250 - Professional Catering
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisites: CULA1320 Culinary I
Course Description: This course examines the requirements to start and operate a catering company. Topics of discussion include kitchen equipment, regulations, operations and business planning.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to:
- Discuss the catering industry and segment potential clients
- Explain various types of catering events held on and off-premise.
- Differentiate between corporate and social catering.
- Gain an appreciation for the planning function of the catering business.
- Describe, plan, and expense a standardized menu.
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HSC 111 - Medical Terminology
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisites: ACT READ 19, ENGL 18, MATH 19
Course Description: An introduction to the constituents of medical and scientific vocabulary building and recognition through study and analysis of common technical prefixes, combining forms, and suffixes which will enable students to interpret and understand complex medical terms.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to:
- Define suffix, root word, prefix, combining vowel, and combining form.
- Interpret medical terms in the order of suffix, prefix and root word.
- Spell correctly medical termsDefine suffix, root word, prefix, combining vowel, and combining form.
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IAM 0001 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0002 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0003 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0004 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0005 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0006 - Worker Characteristics
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0007 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0008 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0009 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0010 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0011 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 0012 - Worker Characteristics
Clock Hours: 6
Course Description: The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce. The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Attendance
- Attends Class as scheduled.
- Arrives/leaves on time (no tardies)
- Notifies instructor prior to or day of being absent.
- Character
- Displays loyalty, honestly, trustworthiness.
- Displays dependability and reliability.
- Displays initiative, self-discipline and self-responsibility.
- Displays self-discipline and performs what is ask of them.
- Teamwork
- Respects the rights of others.
- Maintains appropriate confidentiality.
- Is a team worker that is cooperative, mannerly, and appropriately assertive.
- Displays a customer service attitude.
- Seeks opportunities for continuous learning from others.
- Appearance
- Demonstrates appropriate dress indicative of trade.
- Demonstrates professional grooming and hygiene.
- Presents oneself professionally each day.
- Attitude
- Displays a positive and professional attitude.
- Displays self-confidence.
- Displays high expectations of success in trade.
- Productivity
- Follows safety practices.
- Maintains a neat and clean work area.
- Follows directions and procedures.
- Completes assignments in keeping with deadlines.
- Organization Skills
- Prioritizes and manages class time.
- Demonstrates flexibility in handling change.
- Communication
- Displays appropriate nonverbal skills (eye contact, body language).
- Displays appropriate listening skills.
- Uses appropriate language on a professional level.
- Cooperation
- Displays leadership skills.
- Appropriately handles criticism, conflicts and complaints.
- Maintains appropriate relationships with instructors and peers.
- Follows requests of instructor.
- Respect
- Engages with cultural and racial diversity in a professional manner.
- Refrains from engaging in harassment of any kind.
- Encourages others to avoid harassment
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IAM 1010 - Orientation & Safety Work Readiness
Clock Hours: 30
Course Description: The course provides instruction in shop safety, first aid safety, and lock-out-tag used in the shop. Safety is taught throughout the entire course. Instruction is provided through the use of class assignments, lecture, and videos.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Recognize the importance of personal protective equipment
- Demonstrate the proper procedure for lifting
- Use lockout and/or tag-out when needed
- List several general electrical safety practices
- Discuss the proper use of equipment
- Identify all the organizations that govern the safety of hazardous material
- List the classifications of fire and the proper method of extinguishing a flame.
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IAM 1020 - Technology Foundations
Clock Hours: 30
Industry Certifications National Career Readiness Certificate
Course Description: ACT WorkKeys™ is an ACT product. It is a digital curriculum used by all Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology to ensure that students have the requisite skill levels in three core subject areas: Reading, Math, and Critical Thinking. These skills are needed to be successful in the workplace. The courseware is also used to prepare students to take the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) exam. This ACT WorkKeys™ pre-test is used to establish a base-line score for the students. The students will then work on improving their scores later in the program.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
Reading
- Reading material such as workplace documents such as messages, emails, letters, directions, signs, bulletins, manuals, policies, contracts, and regulations.
- Using the information read to make job-related decisions and solve problems.
- Identify correct meaning of a word when the word is defined in the reading.
- Identify correct meaning of a word based on how the word is used in passage.
- Identify acronyms, jargons or technical terms that are defined in passage.
- Identify purposes, main idea and/or topics in messages.
- Identify details that support topics in messages.
- Identify needed actions from messages.
- Identify steps, and sub steps, in a set of directions.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions in correct order.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions that include if-then-else statements.
- Read/Follow instructions/directions that include maps, diagrams or floor plans.
- Identify cause and effect in directions.
- Solve problems from troubleshooting directions using cases and effects.
- Apply general reading strategies for reading directions.
- Find information in indexes, tables of contents, and glossaries.
Basic Writing
- Produce writing that consists of complete sentences.
- Exhibit organization of thoughts and ideas.
- Develop writing using proper sentence parts/parts of speech and sentence structure.
- Use punctuation and capitalization appropriately.
- Demonstrate proper use of plural forms for names, compound words and numbers.
- Identify verb tenses and demonstrate using them properly.
- Identify adjectives and adverbs and demonstrate using them properly.
- Identify commonly misspelled words.
- Proofread and edit writing.
- Write structurally, grammatically, and mechanically correct sentences.
- Demonstrate the phases of writing including draft, revision, and final copy.
- Construct an easy-to-follow, logical progression of ideas and information.
Graphic Literacy
- Read, review and interpret simple to more complex graphs, charts (bar, line, & pie), and tables.
- Identify trends and patterns in graphs, charts and/or tables; and locate information in graphs, charts and/or tables.
- Read and interpret blueprints, schematic drawings, diagrams, specifications, and/or work orders/ticketing systems.
- Read and understand various equipment gauges, valves, levels, dials, dashboards, etc. for operation monitoring.
- Follow and understand checklists.
- Practice visualization to IMIgine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved, rearranged, or newly assembled.
- Demonstrate an understanding of data relationships and comparing trends - variables, dependency, creating summaries, etc.
- Draw conclusions and/or apply data from graphs, charts, and/or tables to specific situations.
- Evaluate information/data to determine compliance with standards.
- Making decisions and solving problems by analyzing information/data and evaluating results.
- Ability to concentrate on a task over time without being distracted.
Applied Mathematics
- Efficiently and accurately solve basic mathematical operations dealing with whole numbers, fractions, decIMIls and percentages.
- Convert between fractions, decIMIls, and percentages.
- Apply basic mathematical operations to applied mathematical situations.
- Apply basic graphing and statistical principals to a technical field.
- Efficiently and accurately solve basic algebraic methods and operations.
- Calculate one- and two-step conversions.
- Calculate averages, simple ratios, proportions and rates using whole numbers and decIMIls.
- Locate and use appropriate formulas.
- Calculate using mixed units.
- Calculate perimeter and areas of basic shapes.
- Calculate percentage discounts or markups.
- Decide what information, calculations, or unit conversions to use to find the answer to a problem.
- Identify where a mistake occurred in a calculation.
- Solve problems that require mathematical operations using mixed units - ie. 6 feet 2 inches.
- Conversions between standard and metric measurements.
- Able to work multiplication and division with ease.
- Calculate volume of basic shapes.
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IAM 1030 - Introduction to Electricity
Clock Hours: 108
Course Description: Course is a study of ohms and watts laws, electrical terms, series circuits, parallel circuits and combination circuits. Meters, some laws of magnetism and AC/DC circuits are studied in this portion of the course. Instruction is provided through the use of class assignments, power points, hands-on assignments, lecture and videos.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Recognize electron theory and Kirchoff’s current laws.
- Solve problems of resistance using the resistor color code.
- Recognize and state ohms law. Solve ohms law problems.
- Recognize terms and definitions used in ohms law problems.
- Change amps to milliamps and micro amps, and change ohms to kilohms.
- Use powers of ten solving ohms law problems.
- Solve problems of resistance using the resistor color code.
- Recognize watts law. Demonstrate knowledge solving watts law problems.
- Recognize terms and definitions used in watts law problems.
- Describe power wheel and its relationship to watts and ohms law.
- Identify the six laws of a series circuit.
- Solve series circuit problems using series circuit laws, ohms law and watts law.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a series circuit with hands on exercise calculating all voltage, current and resistance values and using meter to measure those values.
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IAM 1035 - Supervised Work I Term I
Clock Hours: 258
Prerequisites: IAM 1010
Course Description: Under an approved work-based learning (WBL) agreement with a participating industry, apprentice will perform the daily work of an industrial maintenance technician. Field experiences are supervised and evaluated by an experienced industrial maintenance technician. Requires monthly evaluations of students along with check sheets showing mastery of first trimester apprentice course competencies. Field experiences are concurrent with instruction.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Perform all work of an industrial maintenance apprentice in a safe manner
- Demonstrate a willingness to continue training in the program by attending the didactic portion of the program
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IAM 1040 - Ohms Law & The Power Formula
Clock Hours: 54
Prerequisites: IAM 1030
Course Description: Course is a study of Ohms and Watts laws, electrical terms, series circuits, parallel circuits and combination circuits. Meters, some laws of magnetism, and AC/DC circuits are studied in this portion of the course.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Recognize electron theory and Kirchoff’s current laws.
- Solve problems of resistance using the resistor color code.
- Recognize and state ohms law. Solve ohms law problems.
- Recognize terms and definitions used in ohms law problems.
- Change amps to milliamps and micro amps, and change ohms to kilohms.
- Use powers of ten solving ohms law problems.
- Solve problems of resistance using the resistor color code.
- Recognize watts law. Demonstrate knowledge solving watts law problems.
- Recognize terms and definitions used in watts law problems.
- Describe power wheel and its relationship to watts and ohms law.
- Identify the six laws of a series circuit.
- Solve series circuit problems using series circuit laws, Ohms law and Watts law.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a series circuit with hands on exercise calculating all voltage, current and resistance values and using meter to measure those values
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IAM 1050 - Kirchoffs Law
Clock Hours: 102
Course Description: Kirchoff’s Laws define the two types of basic circuits, series and parallel; and, how the four variables, voltage, current, resistance and power, work within these two circuit types. The understanding of Kirchoff’s Laws is necessary to troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair electrical circuits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Define and identify a series circuit.
- Define and identify a parallel circuit.
- Wire and test a series circuit.
- Verify the law of current in a series and parallel circuit.
- Verify the law of voltage in a series circuit.
- Verify the law of resistance in a series circuit.
- Wire and test a parallel circuit.
- Verify the la of current in a parallel circuit.
- Verify the law of voltage in a parallel circuit.
- Verify the law resistance in a parallel circuit.
- Solve problems for unknown quantities of voltage, current, resistance and power.
- Become proficient at using analog and digital meters for troubleshooting.
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IAM 1055 - Supervised Work I Term II
Clock Hours: 270
Course Description: Under an approved work-based learning (WBL) agreement with a participating industry, apprentice will perform the daily work of an industrial maintenance technician. Field experiences are supervised and evaluated by an experienced industrial maintenance technician. Requires monthly evaluations of students along with check sheets showing mastery of first trimester apprentice course competencies. Field experiences are concurrent with instruction.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Perform all work of an industrial maintenance apprentice in a safe manner
- Demonstrate a willingness to continue training in the program by attending the didactic portion of the program
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IAM 1060 - Series & Parallel Circuits
Clock Hours: 54
Course Description: This course provides instruction in the way that the three loads, capacitance, inductance and resistance, interact and function in typical electrical circuits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Describe a series/parallel connection.
- Explain polarity in a series/parallel circuit.
- Describe the operation and function of switches in a series/parallel circuit.
- Calculate resistance, voltage, current and power in a series/parallel circuit.
- Describe a common application of a series/parallel circuit.
- Calculate capacitance and inductance in a series/parallel circuit.
- Describe the function of batteries and solar cells in a series/parallel circuit.
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IAM 1070 - Three Phase Power Circuits
Clock Hours: 54
Course Description: This course instructs the students in the function, distribution and troubleshooting of common commercial and industrial circuits.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Identify NEC branch circuit voltage limits.
- List and describe common types of distribution systems.
- Describe common voltage variation effects on AC motors, heating elements and lamps.
- List and describe common methods of industrial circuit control.
- Identify and describe the characteristics of WYE and Delta transformer connections.
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IAM 1075 - Supervised Work I Term III
Clock Hours: 318
Course Description: Under an approved work-based learning (WBL) agreement with a participating industry, apprentice will perform the daily work of an industrial maintenance technician. Field experiences are supervised and evaluated by an experienced industrial maintenance technician. Requires monthly evaluations of students along with check sheets showing mastery of first trimester apprentice course competencies. Field experiences are concurrent with instruction.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Perform all work of an industrial maintenance apprentice in a safe manner
- Demonstrate a willingness to continue training in the program by attending the didactic portion of the program
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IAM 2010 - Industrial Control Components
Clock Hours: 66
Course Description: This course is designed to familiarize the student with the typical components used in industrial settings. The student is instructed in control devices used for power control, motor control, circuit conditioning and over current protection.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Read and draw ladder logic line diagrams.
- Two and three wire manual control circuits using relays and contactors.
- Troubleshoot magnetic contactors.
- Troubleshoot SPST and SPDT relays.
- Interpret circuit logic from line diagrams.
- Design circuits using line diagrams and ladder logic.
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IAM 2020 - Motor Control Methods
Clock Hours: 72
Prerequisites: IAM 2010
Course Description: The students will receive instruction in low-voltage control methods currently used in industrial and commercial settings.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Read, interpret and follow the motor’s nameplate.
- Wire 2-wire and 3-wire manual control for a 3 phase motor.
- Wire 2-wire and 3-wire manual control for a 1 phase motor.
- Install and wire remote stop/start control stations.
- Install and wire an HOA Control station.
- Wire a Forward/Reverse/Stop Control Station.
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IAM 2025 - Supervised Work II Term I
Clock Hours: 288
Course Description: Under an approved work-based learning (WBL) agreement with a participating industry, apprentice will perform the daily work of an industrial maintenance technician. Field experiences are supervised and evaluated by an experienced industrial maintenance technician. Requires monthly evaluations of students along with check sheets showing mastery of first trimester apprentice course competencies. Field experiences are concurrent with instruction.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Perform all work of an industrial maintenance apprentice in a safe manner
- Demonstrate a willingness to continue training in the program by attending the didactic portion of the program
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IAM 2030 - Three Phase Power Systems
Clock Hours: 72
Course Description: The students receive instruction in the proper selection, sizing, installation and troubleshooting of transformers. Transformers are used for circuit conditioning, stepping down voltage, stepping up voltage and isolation.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Transformer selection based upon the NEC code book.
- Transformer sizing based upon the NEC code book.
- Typical transformer installations in industrial settings.
- The voltages available from WYE connected transformers.
- The voltages available from Delta connected transformers.
- Protection devices (CB and fuse) selection for transformers.
- Control circuit voltages derived from 3-phase systems.
- Separately derived systems for emergencies.
- Wiring transformers for voltage step-up.
- Wiring of transformers for voltage step-down.
- Understanding the difference between Apparent Power (VA) and True Power (Watts).
- Calculating current potential using the Power Formula for both 3-phase and 1-phase
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IAM 2040 - Three Phase Power Control
Clock Hours: 72
Prerequisites: IAM 2030
Course Description: Provides instruction in design, operation, connection and characteristics or several types of DC motors, single phase AC motors and three phase AC motors.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Describe motor and alternator action.
- Identify magnetism in motors.
- Describe and know terms used in DC motor operation.
- Describe operating characteristics of dc series, shunt and compound motors.
- Identify and connect DC permanent magnet motors for cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect DC series motors for cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect DC shunt motors for cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect DC compound motors for cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect universal motor for cw and ccw rotation.
- Describe and know terms used in AC motor operation.
- Identify and connect AC split phase motor for low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect AC capacitor start motor for low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect AC capacitor run motor for low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect AC three phase wye connected motor for low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect AC three phase delta connected motor for low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Identify and connect AC three phase wye or delta low and high voltages, and cw and ccw rotation.
- Read information on motor nameplates.
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IAM 2045 - Supervised Work II Term II
Clock Hours: 282
Prerequisites: IAM 2025
Course Description: Under an approved work-based learning (WBL) agreement with a participating industry, apprentice will perform the daily work of an industrial maintenance technician. Field experiences are supervised and evaluated by an experienced industrial maintenance technician. Requires monthly evaluations of students along with check sheets showing mastery of first trimester apprentice course competencies. Field experiences are concurrent with instruction.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Perform all work of an industrial maintenance apprentice in a safe manner
- Demonstrate a willingness to continue training in the program by attending the didactic portion of the program
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IAM 2050 - Pneumatics & Hydraulics I
Clock Hours: 72
Course Description: Provides instruction in basic terminology, operation, and design of hydraulic, pneumatic and vacuum systems.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Explain Pascal’s Law and solve Pascal’s Law problems.
- Understand the difference between pressure and flow.
- Explain Understand Bernoulli’s Laws.
- Explain “force multiplication” and solve force multiplication problems.
- Explain “pressure intensification” and solve pressure intensification problems.
- Explain vacuum laws and explain relationship to hydraulics and pneumatics.
- Calculate inches of vacuum and inches of mercury.
- List parts of a hydraulic power unit.
- Explain the two types of cavitation.
- Calculate horsepower in a hydraulic system.
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IAM 2060 - Pneumatics & Hydraulics II
Clock Hours: 72
Prerequisites: IAM 2050
Course Description: Provides instruction in advanced terminology, operation, and design of hydraulic, pneumatic and vacuum systems.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:
- Discuss the importance of filtration, filtration maintenance, and hydraulic oils in a hydraulic system.
- Explain what hydraulic actuators are and list different applications for their use.
- Select proper components to perform a function required by a specific hydraulic application.
- Describe directional control valves, flow control valves, hydraulic pumps, check valves and pressure control valves in a hydraulic system.
- Discuss speed control for hydraulics and relate it to the terms “meter in”’ “meter-out” and “bypass “speed control.
- Explain pressure intensification in a hydraulic cylinder.
- Explain cylinder creep.
- Draw and know symbology in hydraulic and pneumatic circuits.
- Explain restrictions to fluid flow.
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