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AC/DC Electricity

AC/DC Electrical teaches fundamentals of AC/DC electrical systems used for power and control. You'll learn industry-relevant skills in areas like basic electrical circuits, electrical measurement, circuit analysis, inductance and capacitance, combination circuits, and transformers.

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  • Topics: Voltage, current, resistance, power, Ohm’s and Watt’s Laws, series and parallel circuits, series and parallel combination circuits, inductance and capacitance, intro to transformers.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credit Course Connection: ELT 105: DC Circuits, with required math prerequisite, some additional course materials, and a proficiency exam
  • Instructor: D. Barbuto
  • Approximate Total Time: 30 hours, 15 hours hands-on lab time
 

Pneumatics

In this course, you'll learn basic and intermediate level pneumatics and troubleshooting.

Basic pneumatics includes safety, pneumatic circuits, pneumatic schematics, the principles of pneumatic pressure and flow, pneumatic speed control circuits, pressure regulation, air filtration, pneumatic cylinders, valves, and actuators, a wide array of pneumatic applications, pressure and cylinder force, pressure and volume, and air flow resistance.

Intermediate pneumatics includes cam-operated valves, cylinder sequencing with cam valves, cylinder deceleration circuits, pilot operated directional control valves, shuttle valves, air logic components and design, air filters, filter selection, filter maintenance, water removal techniques, air dryers, after-coolers, water traps, air lubricators, and component maintenance.

  • Topics: Basic pneumatics, intermediate pneumatics, pneumatics troubleshooting: cylinders, directional control valves, pressure and flow, speed control, logic, applications.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 117: Pneumatics, Hydraulics, and Mechanical Drives with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 50 hours, 25 hours hands-on lab time
 

Motors

This course focuses on types of motors, both DC and AC, how they are designed, applications and uses, speed-torque characteristics and measurements.

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  • Topics: Motor types, how motors work, motor wiring, measuring motor speed and torque, motor speed-torque curves, motor nameplate data.
  • Prerequisites: AC/DC electricity training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 217: Motors and Robotics, with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 30 hours, 15 hours hands-on lab time
 

Motor Controls

This course is designed for beginners to automation and motor controls. You'll study motor control using across-the-line starters, along with an introduction to ladder diagrams. You'll gain skills in interpreting schematics, system design, motor start/stop circuits, motor sequence control, reversing motor control, and motor jogging. Also includes some basic sensors and their use in ladder diagrams and motor start/stop. Safety is emphasized throughout, highlighting motor safety, lockout/tagout and safety interlocks.

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  • Topics: Manual motor control and overload protection, control transformers, ladder diagrams, control relays and motor starters, troubleshooting motor circuits, reversing motor control, sensors and motor control
  • Prerequisites: AC/DC electricity training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 217: Motors and Robotics, with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam
  • Instructor: D. Barbuto
  • Approximate Total Time: 40 hours, 20 hours hands-on lab time
 

Robotics

Learn programming and manual control of a 6-axis pick-and-place robotic arm using a teach pendant and PC.

  • Topics: Skills include safety, powerup, shutdown, manual operation, homing, end effector operation. Skills taught also include basic robot programming including movement and effector commands, interfacing and material handling, and application development.
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT217: Motors and Robotics, with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 50 hours, 20 hours hands-on lab time
 

PLC/VFD wiring and control

Learn the function, operation, installation and construction of electrical wiring and wiring components, with the goal of wiring a programmable logic controller (PLC) and a variable frequency drive (VFD) in an industrial control cabinet. You'll also learn about VFD settings and operation. Some specific topics are electrical control system wiring, disconnects and overcurrent protection, PLC and VFD installation, how to wire a PLC in an electrical enclosure, and variable frequency drive (VFD) motor control. Specific objectives include how to wire and test a master control relay (MCR) circuit; and how to wire motor circuits to a VFD.

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  • Topics: Electrical control panel wiring, terminal blocks, grounding, wire feeding and bundling, motor wiring, PLC wiring, VFD wiring and operation
  • Prerequisites: AC/DC electricity training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 122: Manufacturing Tools & Practices, with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 50 hours, 25 hours hands-on lab time (actual lab time will depend on previous experience with electrical wiring)
 

Mechanical Drives

Amatrol’s Mechanical Drives 1 Learning System (970-ME1) covers mechanical drive installation, mechanical drive operation, motor drive alignment, and applications of various motor drive systems. You'll use the mechanical drives training system and the interactive online mechanical drives curriculum to gain theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills for shaft, belt, gear, and chain drives using real-world motor drive components. Additional topics include Mechanical Drives 2 (970-ME-2), Laser Shaft Alignment (97-ME2A), Predictive Maintenance Vibration Analysis (97-ME5A), and Mechanical Drives 3 (97-ME3).

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  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 117: Pneumatics, Hydraulics, and Mechanical Drives with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 50 hours, 25 hours hands-on lab time

 

 

Hydraulics

Learn how hydraulic components work (pilot-operated check valves, two-position directional control valves, telescoping cylinders, etc.), and how they relate to real-world applications. You'll use theory and practice to better understand concepts like pressure intensification and cylinder regeneration while learning to operate, install, design and troubleshoot hydraulic components.

  • Prerequisites: None
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 117: Pneumatics, Hydraulics, and Mechanical Drives with math course prerequisite and proficiency exam
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 30 hours, 15 hours hands-on lab time
 

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Get familiar with PLC Programming, including discrete I/O, PLC tags, counters and timers, Hand-Off-Auto (HOA) modes, electro-pneumatic control, and PLC systems troubleshooting.

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  • Prerequisites: DC/AC training and pneumatics training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 216: Automation Systems with completion of required prerequisite courses and proficiency exam
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 40 hours, 20 hours hands-on lab time

Process Control – Liquid Flow and Level 

This training is about the study of maintaining process liquid level or flow. Topics include manual and automatic process variable control to a setpoint. Learn to understand piping and study instrumentation drawings. You'll become familiar with the process control loop and how to use a PID controller.

  • Prerequisites: DC/AC training and Pneumatics training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 216: Automation Systems with completion of required prerequisite courses and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 40 hours, 20 hours hands-on lab time

Process Control – Temperature 

Study maintaining process temperature using cooling and heating piping loops through heat exchangers. Learn about piping and instrumentation drawings. You'll become familiar with the process control loop, heating, and cooling loop, and how to use a PID controller.

  • Prerequisites: DC/AC training, Pneumatics training, and Process Control – Liquid Flow and Level training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT216: Automation Systems with completion of required prerequisite courses and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 20 hours, 15 hours hands-on lab time

Advanced Automation (Smart Factory)

You'll learn about a 7-station miniature assembly line. This includes practice calibrating sensors, adjusting actuators such as motors and belt drives, and troubleshooting. Study Hand-Off-Auto (HOA) modes using jogging and automatic settings and programming. PLC programming is part of the course materials.

  • Prerequisites: DC/AC training, Pneumatics training, and PLC Programming training
  • Credit Course Connection: Credit toward course ELT 216: Automation Systems with completion of required prerequisite courses and proficiency exam.
  • Approximate Total Training Course Time: 30 hours, 20 hours hands-on lab time