Course Description: Personal injury law, including review of intentional torts (e.g., assault, battery, false imprisonment), negligence and strict liability (e.g., products liability) and other tortuous conduct.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Course is 8 weeks in length, with assignments required from multiple chapters each week.
Course Description: Conducts a practical analysis of modern administration theory and supervisory, management principles and their application to the unique operating problems of criminal justice organizations.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Examines the role of police in society and the application of key concepts to policing scenarios. Students identify, discuss and assess critical police practices and processes to include deployment, arrest
procedures, search strategies and other operational considerations.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Introduces basic court system procedures and the jurisdiction of the courts. It also focuses on the constitutional and other legal requirements that affect law enforcement practices and procedures. Specific topics include confessions and interrogations, identification procedures, arrest, search and seizure, and admissibility of evidence.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Explores issues including the effective interview and interrogation techniques, crime scene management and lab processes, crime scene documentation methods, case preparation and court presentation.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Using CAD hardware and software to solve problems in visualization; fundamentals of orthographic projection; auxiliary view, point view and true length of line segments, edge view and true shape of planes; graphical analysis of points, line and planes; orthographic projection of solids; pictorial and sectional views; creation of 3D models and drawing views.
Spring
Credit Hours: 5.00
Section Notes: PC with Windows operating system and Autodesk AutoCAD software required. Free student version software available at www.autodesk.com/education.
Course Description: Identify basic lines, views and abbreviations used in blue prints, interpret basic 3D sketches using orthographic projections and blueprints, determine dimensions of features of simple parts, sketch simple parts with dimensional measurements, determine dimensions of a multi-feature part, interpret GDT symbols, frames and datums.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Students are introduced to the science of dimensional metrology and its applications to ensure form and function of machined parts and assemblies using semi-precision and precision measuring instruments.
Spring
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Behavior and service of metals in industry. Characteristics during heating, cooling, shaping, forming, and the stress related to their mechanical properties. Theory behind alloys, heat treatment processes, and wear resistance.
Course Notes: MC110 BenchWork with a Grade of C or higher, and MC115 Machining I with a Grade of C or higher.
Spring
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Simultaneous enrollment in MC116 is encouraged.Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Simultaneous enrollment in MC116 is encouraged.Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Simultaneous enrollment in MC116 is encouraged.
Course Description: Conduct a job hazard analysis for a machine tool group, analyze blueprints to layout parts and materials, select hand tools and common machine shop mechanical hardware for specific applications, prescribe cutting tools for assigned operations, calculate stock size to minimize drop, machine parts to specifications outlined in machine handbooks, summarize preparations for machining operations, and apply precautions to minimize hazards for work with lathes, mills, drills and grinders.
Spring
Credit Hours: 1.00
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Please note that class meets on MTWRF from 1/7/26-2/27/26 and then on MWF from 3/2/26-5/15/26.Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Please note that class meets on MTWRF from 1/7/26-2/27/26 and then on MWF from 3/2/26-5/15/26.
Course Description: Students learn to perform basic trigonometric functions, and perform other procedures such as I.D. boring and facing operations, planning a sequence for machining operations, aligning work pieces, use work holding devices, jigs and fixtures, performing threading operations on lathes, machining keyways on a vertical mill, inspecting and dressing grinding wheels, performing O.D. & I.D. threading operations, performing O.D. & I.D. tapering operations, machining parts using milling cutters and milling machines, and tapping holes on a vertical mill.
Course Notes: MC110 BenchWork with a Grade of C or higher, and MC115 Machining I with a Grade of C or higher.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: MC113 Metallurgy should be taken as a corequisite.
Course Description: Continuation of MC204 Machine Practices I, with emphasis on CNC applications. Complex problems and projects found in the experimental/customized manufacturing area.
Course Notes: Departmental Consent, or MC204 Machine Practices I w/Grade of C or higher.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Continuation of MC117 CNC Operations. Application of program skills previously learned to independently operate CNC equipment to create a variety of machined parts.
Course Notes: MC117 CNC Operations.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: This course examines theory, applications, and operation of industrial hydraulic and pneumatic systems. The inspection, maintenance and repair of the various components are covered in this course. Interpretation of the various schematic symbols used in hydraulic and pneumatic circuit diagrams will be discussed.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson area high school & post-secondary students enrolled in the Industrial Mechanical Maintenance/Industrial Electrical Technology program ONLY.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Brooks Trade Center Industrial Electrical Technology students ONLY.
Course Description: Principles and operations of motor controls with emphasis on maintenance, operation, and utilization.
Course Notes: AE100 AC/DC Circuits.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: McPherson area high school & post-secondary students enrolled in the Industrial Mechanical Maintenance/Industrial Electrical Technology program ONLY.Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Brooks Trade Center Industrial Electrical Technology students ONLY.
Course Description: Electrical controls, their connections and their actions when AC is applied; study electrical principles and practices required of service technicians in refrigeration, heating, air conditioning, and appliance repair in commercial and industrial fields.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Introduction to the fundamentals of heating and air-conditioning in residential applications including system design and troubleshooting.
Spring
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Introduction to refrigeration systems used for commercial applications.
Spring
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Heating and air conditioning in commercial applications including system design and troubleshooting.
Course Notes: ME115 HVAC Fundamentals, and EE203 Instruments & Measurements, or ME116 Commercial Refrigeration.
Spring
Credit Hours: 4.00
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Essentials of solar power systems and components, design and installation, production and maintenance with consideration of safety and codes for wiring, grounding, and construction.
Spring
Credit Hours: 3.00