MEC-255 Mechatronics Specialist

Credits: 31
Contact Hours: Lec 17 Lab 28 Practicum 0
Tier Rate: Tier II
This course will introduce students to a multi-disciplinary blend of skills including mechanical, electrical and computer controls essential to begin a mechatronics-related career. Students will learn proper safety procedures, fluid power concepts, industrial electricity theories, motors and controls operation, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) programming/interfacing. Students will build upon the basic electrical instruction and expand their application to troubleshooting different types of electrical circuitry, installing and maintaining electric motors, basic operation and maintenance of gearboxes, belts/pulleys, pumps, compressors and bearings, writing programming commands to perform typical industrial processes, operation and wiring of various industry sensors, and using the PLC for interfacing with robots, computer numerical controls (CNC), and other computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) practices.