Instrumentation and Automation Engineering Technology
About the Occupation
Instrumentation Automation (IA) and Industrial Controls (IC) is a general electrical automation and process control program that has served industry for 50 years. Its mission is to provide Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) training for students, technicians and engineers in automation and control.
Technicians and engineers need to keep current on software and new devices to best serve the industry in which they work. When a plant is down it can cost $10,000 a minute. Using prints and test equipment to troubleshoot is one of their most important roles.
Program Description
The Instrumentation Automation and Industrial Controls Program provides core skills for all industries. Skills include three phase electrical motor control, variable frequency drives(VFD's), sensors, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's), robotics, temperature, pressure, level, and flow devices, PID loops, human machine interfaces (HMI) and others. IA technicians are the physicians of industry where trouble shooting and efficiency matters.
Career Opportunities
IA and IC graduates work in nuclear research, food, mining, paper, space, chemical, power, oil and gas, manufacturing, construction, utilities, defense, security, equipment vendor, medical, and other industries.
Certificates & Degrees
Advanced Technical Certificate
- Instrumentation and Automation Engineering Technology
- Industrial Controls
Associate of Applied Science Degree *
- Instrumentation and Automation Engineering Technology
- Industrial Controls
* All AAS degrees will articulate into the Bachelor of Applied Technology.
Program Options & Length:
- Program accepts 10 new students in both August and January
- Program duration is four semesters plus one summer
Paying for College
You may apply for financial aid, scholarships, grants, and loans to help finance your college education. When you pay registration fees, you are a student of Idaho State University with the privileges and responsibilities of a college student.
Gainful Employment
| Admissions Information: | Click Here |
| CIP Code: | 150404 |
| Certificate: Advanced Technical Certificate - Instrumentation & Automation | |
| Tuition and Fees: | $13,712.50* |
| Books and Supplies: | $2,020.00 |
| Room and Board | $6,439.50** |
| Total: | $22,172.00** |
| Certificate: Associate of Applied Science - Instrumentation & Automation | |
| Tuition and Fees: | $13,657.50* |
| Books and Supplies: | $2,999.55 |
| Room and Board | $6,439.50** |
| Total: | $23,096.55** |
| Certificate: Advanced Technical Certificate - Instrumentation & Automation | |
| Normal Program Length: | 4.5 Sem. |
| 2010-2011 Completers: | 1 |
| Number Completed in Normal Time: | NR |
| Normal Completion Rate (from the time students enrolled at ISU): | 100 |
| Program Completion Rate (from the time students enrolled in program classes): | 100 |
| Certificate: Associate of Applied Science - Instrumentation & Automation | |
| Normal Program Length: | 4.5 Sem. |
| 2010-2011 Completers: | 17 |
| Number Completed in Normal Time: | 13 |
| Normal Completion Rate (from the time students enrolled at ISU): | 76 |
| Program Completion Rate (from the time students enrolled in program classes): | 29 |
| Jobs Related to These Programs | |
| Occupations with each program area were identified using Department of Labor ONET Crosswalks. | |
| Placement Rate: | 100*** |
NR On-time completion rates are not reported for programs with fewer than 10 completers in order to protect student privacy. | |
* Based on 2012-13 full-time, Idaho resident tuition and fee schedule. ** Based on 2012-13 double occupancy rates and 100 meal plus flex money plan. | |
*** Based on completer placement data from the 2010-2011 fiscal year submitted January 15, 2011 to the Idaho State Division of Professional-Technical Education (ISDPTE). Positive placement is defined by the ISDPTE as completers enrolled in the military, employed in a related training, employed in a field unrelated to training, or pursing additional education. |