The Certificate of Proficiency in Control Fundamentals is a course of study that prepares students for entry-level employment in manufacturing, repair, farming equipment repair, sales, and many more. This certificate of proficiency may be applied to the Technical Certificate and the Associate of Applied Science degree in Industrial Control Systems.

Plan of Study Grid

Freshman
Fall		Hours
AT 1163	FUND ELECTRICITY I (DC CRCTS)	3
	Hours	3
Spring
AT 1173	FUND ELECTRICITY II (AC CRCTS)	3
	Hours	3
Sophomore
Fall
AT 2153	INTRO TO INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION	3
	Hours	3
Spring
AT 2013	INTRO TO INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS	3
AT 2143	PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLERS	3
	Hours	6
	Total Hours	15

• Measure current, voltage, resistance, and compute power of D.C. and A.C. circuits
• Demonstrate proficiency in troubleshooting D.C. and A.C.  circuits, locating shorts, opens, and overloads
• Compute math problems are necessary to calculate energy power, voltage, current, and resistance of A.C. and D. C. circuits
• Understand Lockout/Tagout procedures
• How to install industrial motors, control transformers, reversing contactors, manual motor starters, multi-function timers, and control relays
• Understand how to troubleshoot industrial motors and controls
• Understand how to Power up and jog the robot and recover from common program and robot faults
• Demonstrate how to Execute production operations, Create, modify, and execute a teach pendent program, and backup and restore individual programs and files
• Understand the Components of PLC
• Connect PLC to PC
• Basic Programming of PLC
• Understand Sub Routines, JMP and Label Commands, and Logic Gates and Sequencing