Automation Overview

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Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Admitted into Instrumentation and Control program or Electrician Technician program and successful completion of first-year Electronics, Electronics/Telecommunications, Instrumentation and Control Technology or Electrician Technology courses or departmental approval. Typically Offered: SPRING Students will learn to demonstrate a process control loop by building, commissioning, troubleshooting and operating a simulated control loop using interlocking logic and control processor algorithms including proportions, integral and derivative (PID) and loop tuning. Students will participate in tours of different facilities such as power plants, refineries, manufacturing facilities, coal gasification plant and food processing plants.