Applied Electricity

Catalog description

This course, designed for mechanical and manufacturing technology students, provides a basic understanding of electricity as well as commonly used components and how these function. The course introduces students to electrical safety, electrical measurements, AC and DC circuits, common electrical components, and fundamentals of motors, transformers, controls, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Laboratory experience includes building and testing simple circuits from schematics, using test equipment, operating electrical, rotating equipment, relay logic and ladder control circuit programming of PLCs, and elementary analog and digital circuits.