Course Description: Identify safety and personal health hazards; determine types of substrates and sanding materials; identify the process to clean and prepare a substrate for paint; distinguish between the properties, uses and manufacturer specifications of metal treatments and primers; distinguish among types of spray guns and equipment; explore paint codes and specifications for use. Identify paint systems; explore types of paint defects; distinguish between damage and non-damage related corrosion; identify final detail procedures.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Select proper personal protective equipment; perform proper shop operations according to OSHA guidelines; prepare substrate for refinishing; select appropriate undercoating; use necessary cleaning preparation and protect surface areas to remain unpainted. Mix, catalyze and activate paint; apply paint using various spray techniques; operate high volume and low pressure gun operation. Correct defects; apply color, sanding and buffing techniques to correct surface defects.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Explore safety requirements in the auto collision and repair industry; explore opportunities in the industry. Explore parts and construction of vehicles. Identify metal straightening techniques and the application and use of body fillers. Demonstrate use, set-up and storage of welding equipment. Distinguish between weldable and non-weldable materials. Demonstrate fundamental welds. Identify plastics and adhesives. Explain the purpose of damage, estimation and repair orders. Explore the processes required for outer body panel repairs, replacements and adjustments. Demonstrate fundamental cutting procedures.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Demonstrate safety procedures. Remove and install trim and hardware; determine process and procedures necessary for movable glass repair; repair, replace and adjust outer body panels; remove and install mechanical and electrical components. Perform intermediate welding skill. Perform plastic and adhesive repairs.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Assessing, measuring and estimating vehicle damage. Aligned with industry standards. Analysis of structural damage and diagnosis of vehicle damage using manufacturers’ electronic measuring devices and frame machines.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Identify safety requirements related to structural damage repair. Identify measuring procedures; analyze basic structural damage conditions. Analyze frame repair methods; analyze unibody inspection and measurement; identify welding procedures for structural repair.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Apply safety requirements related to structural damage repair; analyze frame inspection and repair procedures; determine direct and indirect damage for structural repair; analyze unibody inspection, measurement and repair procedures. Perform welding techniques for structural repair; and identify cutting procedures for structural repair.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 2.00
Course Description: Introductory course on electrical and electronic theory and their applications to alternating and direct current circuits for beginning students with no formal experience in electricity or electronics.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: In-depth understanding and working knowledge of multimeters. Digital Multimeter Principles will help students develop a working knowledge of troubleshooting techniques to apply in the field.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Concurrent enrollment in AE100.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Concurrent enrollment in AE100.Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Notes: Concurrent enrollment in AE100.
Course Description: This course examines types, installation and troubleshooting of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Hardware and programming aspects, as well as ladder logic symbols and operations necessary to develop a PLC program, are also covered.
Course Notes: AE100 AC/DC Circuits.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Concurrent enrollment in ME110 Fundamentals of Motor ControlsSection Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Concurrent enrollment in ME110 Fundamentals of Motor Controls
Course Description: Operation, application, maintenance and troubleshooting of electrical equipment including transformers, relays, motor controls and wiring with emphasis on diagnostic troubleshooting.
Course Notes: AE100 AC/DC Circuits.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Section Notes: Corequisite of ME110 Fundamentals of Motor Controls
Course Description: This class is designed for any person requiring a general knowledge and understanding of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), electric motors and DC drives.
Course Notes: ME110 Fundamentals of Motor Controls.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Hands-on experience with modular PLC''s in developing advanced ladder logic programs and routines including applications, advanced PLC instructions, programming and troubleshooting ladder logic for discreet and analog systems.
Course Notes: AE150 Programmable Logic Controllers.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Study of distributed and PC-based control systems; integration of process and programmable logic control systems into central control, data gathering and report generating systems.
Course Notes: AE200 Variable Frequency Drives & Electric Motors, or AE205 Industrial PLCs.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Practical application of problems in control systems technology, application of studied concepts toward the development of a control solution by evaluating the problem definition and providing the control system to solve that problem.
Course Notes: AE200 Variable Frequency Drives & Electric Motors, or AE205 Industrial PLCs.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: The historical development of modern-day U.S. agriculture, projected trends with implications for the future; orientation to the curriculum, faculty and programs; appreciation of the basic sciences in professional agriculture.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Course Description: Basic principles which apply to the broad field of animal agriculture; survey of the industry; types, purposes and products of livestock; principles of breeding, selection, nutrition, lactation, reproduction, management and marketing.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Principles of production of economic plants, including morphology, taxonomy, physiology, ecology, propagation, preservation, storage and utilization.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4.00
Course Description: Economic principles and their application to the solution of problems encountered in the operation of farms and agri-business firms as well as problems of the agricultural industry in its relationship to other sectors of the economy.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Description: Evaluation of breeding livestock along with any appropriate performance data and market livestock data including a comparison of live animals and the resulting carcass.
Fall
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00
Section Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 1.00