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Energy Systems Technology & Education Center
Instrumentation and Automation Engineering Technology
Program Options and Length
Program accepts 10 new students in both August and January
Program duration is four semesters plus one summer
Certificates and 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.
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.
Course Sequence
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