May 09, 2025  
2024-2025 CATALOG 
    
2024-2025 CATALOG

Industrial Automation and Robotics

Location(s): Main Campus, North, Dayton Site, West, Kimball Site


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This program prepares students to become maintenance personnel in industry. Students learn skills in electricity, motor controls, welding, hydraulics, pneumatics, mechanical systems, programmable logic controls (PLCs), automation, and robotics. Students begin studying the NCCER Core curriculum with introductory to craft skills, safety, tools, fasteners, industrial print reading, rigging & mechanical, installations, mechanical power transmissions, bearing, coupled shaft alignment, lubrication, seals and packing, and pumps and compressors. Students progress into fluid power, piping systems, electrical fundamentals, test equipment, basic resistive electrical circuits, reactive circuits power factor, wiring methods, transformers, electrical machinery, control devices, and introduction to robotics. In the third term students dive more in depth into motor control circuits, basic industrial electronics, programmable logic controllers, lighting, gas welding, arc welding, and preventive maintenance. This program is up to 5 semesters with exit points available at the end of each term. 

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At the end of the first term students can earn an embedded certificate of Maintenance Mechanic/ Electrician Level I. At the end of the second term students can earn an embedded certificate of Maintenance Mechanic/ Electrician Level II. Students that choose to graduate at the end of their third term will be awarded an Industrial Maintenance Mechanic/Electrician diploma. Students that choose to graduate at the end of their fourth term will be awarded an Automation Maintenance Mechanic/Electrician diploma. Students that complete all five terms will earn the Industrial Automation and Robotics Technician diploma. 

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