2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook
Air Conditioning Technology: Building Automation, AAS
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CODE: ACTBA-AAS | TOTAL CREDITS: 60 | FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY: Eligible
DESCRIPTION
This program prepares students to install, service, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot building automation systems in commercial buildings, controlling Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems, energy management systems, as well as lighting and security systems. Students who complete this program can significantly impact building energy consumption. Graduates can seek employment as building automation technicians and control systems technicians with manufacturers, vendors, service companies, and large facilities, such as government and educational facilities, hospitals, and office buildings.
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Student Learning Outcomes
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Select, set up and test Direct Digital Controls (DDC) hardware and software. -
Practice control systems programming and energy efficient control system design strategies. -
Assess control systems networking and control systems integration strategies in commercial buildings. -
Apply various troubleshooting techniques to building automation control systems. -
Explain energy saving opportunities in buildings, including control systems documentation, energy efficient control routines, data analysis, performance monitoring, and energy efficient policies and codes compliance. General Education Requirements
TOTAL GENERAL EDUCATION CREDITS: 22 300-level and above courses cannot be used to satisfy GE requirements. Mathematics (3 Credits)
NOTE: Your first college-level MATH course must be completed before reaching 30 total college-level credits. Recommended: MATH 104B English Composition (3-5 Credits)
NOTE: Your first college-level ENG course must be completed before reaching 30 total college-level credits. Communications (3 Credits)
Recommended: COM 115 Human Relations (3 Credits)
Recommended: ALS 101 Natural Science (3 Credits)
Recommended: ENV 101 Fine Arts/Humanities/Social Science (3 Credits)
Recommended: GEOG 106 - any AM prefix course
- or any ANTH prefix course (except ANTH 102 and 110L)
- or any ART prefix course
- or any COM prefix course
- or CRJ 104 - Introduction to Administration of Justice
- or DAN 101 - Dance Appreciation
- or any ECON prefix course
- or ENG 223 - Themes of Literature or above
- or GEOG 106 - Introduction to Cultural Geography
- or HHP 201 - Stress Management
- or HHP 213 - Healthy Aging
- or any HIST prefix course
- or any MUS prefix course (except MUS 100)
- or any PHIL prefix course
- or PHO 101 - Beginning Photography
- or any PSC prefix course
- or any PSY prefix course
- or any SOC prefix course
- or any THTR prefix course (except 275)
- or WMST 113 - Gender, Race, and Class
- or World Languages 101B or above (this includes the following course prefixes: ARA, ARM, CHI, FIL, FREN, GER, GRE, ITAL, JPN, KOR, LAT, PORT, RUS, SPAN, and THAI)
U.S. and Nevada Constitutions (4-6 Credits)
Recommended: HIST 100 or PSC 101 Major Requirements
TOTAL MAJOR REQUIREMENTS CREDITS: 38 Grades of D+, D, and D- in the major requirements (occupational) area in an Associate of Applied Science degree program will not count toward graduation requirements. |
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