2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Oct 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

Engineering Technology: Utilities-Electrical Power, CA


CODE: ETUEP-CT     |     TOTAL CREDITS: 30     |     FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY: Eligible


GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION
Important information about the educational debt, earnings, and completion rates of students who attended this program are located at www.csn.edu/gainful-employment.

DESCRIPTION
The Certificate of Achievement in Engineering Technology, Utilities-Electrical Power is an 18-month program that provides students with classroom and laboratory experiences in electricity, mechanical power, pneumatics, hydraulics, and ferrous and non-ferrous material.  This utilities certificate focuses on those skills used in operational settings.  Courses include Industrial Electricity, Mechanical Power Transmission, and Fluid Power.  There are also a number of electives that allow students to focus on electrical maintenance, mechanical maintenance, or plant/facility operation in the power utility industry.

COMPUTATION & HUMAN RELATIONS COMPONENTS
  • Computation: ET 111B or MATH 116 or MATH 124/124E or MATH 126/126E or MATH 127 or above
  • Human Relations: MT 102B and MT106B

ACADEMIC MAP

CSN MAP: CA Engineering Technology: Utilities - Electrical Power   


 

Student Learning Outcomes


  1. Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to follow guidelines for safe operation and maintenance of various mechanical, electrical, and fluid power systems used in the power utility industry.
  2. Show the skills to design and operate basic electrical, mechanical, and fluid power systems and to use computer based programmable logic controller devices to monitor their operation and performance.
  3. Apply various troubleshooting techniques for identification and correction of faults in electrical circuits and mechanical and high-pressure fluid power systems used in the power utility industry.
  4. Prepare technical reports and communicate the results through effective oral communications.

General Education Requirements


TOTAL GENERAL EDUCATION CREDITS: 6


 

Mathematics (3 Credits)


NOTE: Your first college-level MATH course MUST be completed before reaching 30 total college-level credits.

Communications (3 Credits)


Strongly Recommended: COM 115.

Major Requirements


TOTAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS CREDITS: 24


Grades of D+, D, and D- in the major requirements (occupational) area in a Certificate of Achievement program will not count toward graduation requirements.