Career Technologies AAS – Engineering Technology Program
Code: AAS.IDT.ENGIN.TECH
The Engineering Technology program is intended to prepare students for entry-level positions as support personnel with myriad technological skills for the broad area of engineering & technology.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Qualify for entry level positions as Engineering Assistants in basic design and development work, and in computer aided drafting and simulation of actual or conceptual systems.
- Adjust and repair electromechanical equipment as entry level service shop technicians.
- Test, troubleshoot, or prototype electromechanical products and systems as entry level lab technicians.
- Service and repair installed electromechanical systems at the user's location as entry level field service technicians.
- Assist in technical writing projects, and for those who excel in oral communications skills, assist in technical marketing or sales.
Career Pathways
| Entry Level Technologist: Engineering, Electromechanical, or Process Control |
Entry Level Field Service Technician |
Electromechanical Installation and Repair |
| Technical Report Writer |
Technical Marketing or Sales Associate |
|
Recommended Semester Sequence
First Semester
| ELC-100 | Introduction to Electronics Technology | 2 |
| ELC-101 | DC-Circuit Analysis | 4 |
| DFT-107 | Drafting I | 3 |
| MFG-122 | Machine Tool Principles I | 3 |
| WRT-101 | English Composition I | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Second Semester
Third Semester
| ELC-203 | Digital Electronics Circuits I | 4 |
| MFG-206 | Concepts of Industrial Design | 3 |
| PHY-185 | Introduction to Physics | 4 |
| CHM-102 | Chemistry in Context | 4 |
| - | or | |
| CHM-100 | Introduction to Chemistry | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Fourth Semester
| |
Humanities Elective |
3 |
| |
Social Science Elective |
3 |
| |
Free Elective*+ |
4-5 |
| ELC-204 | Digital Electronics Circuits II | 4 |
| - | or | |
| INF-108 | PC Maintenance | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 14-15 |
* Recommended Free Electives:
MFG-119,
DFT-208
+ 1-Credit Recommended Free Electives:
INF-102,
INF-115,
INF-120,
INF-124,
INF-143,
INF-144,
INF-151,
INF-161,
INF-162,
INF-165
General Education Requirements
Communication
| WRT-101 | English Composition I | 3 |
| WRT-201 | English Composition II | 3 |
| - | or | |
| WRT-202 | Technical Writing | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 6 |
Humanities and Social Sciences*
Two general education courses selected from the following fields, with no more than one course in any one field: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); History (HIS); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN); Economics (ECO); Geography (GEO); Political Science (POL); Psychology (PSY); Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT).
Mathematics, Natural Science, and Technology
| CHM-100 | Introduction to Chemistry | 4 |
| - | or | |
| CHM-102 | Chemistry in Context | 4 |
| PHY-185 | Introduction to Physics | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 8 |
Total Credit Hours: 20
Program Requirements
Free Elective
Total Credit Hours: 40
Total Credit Hours: 60
Specific Program Notes
Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.
Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.
*General Education Elective(s).
Students enrolled in this program ARE REQUIRED to successfully complete a course in basic algebra if indicated by the Basic Skills Placement Test.