2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook
Advanced Manufacturing: Automation, AAS
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CODE: ADVMA-AAS | TOTAL CREDITS: 60 | FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY: Eligible
DESCRIPTION
Provides students with classroom and laboratory experiences in electricity, mechanical power transfer, pneumatics/hydraulics, ferrous and non-ferrous material properties, and industrial automation. Focuses on those skills used in manufacturing, industrial, and operation-support settings. Academic skills emphasizing related math, science, and human relations are stressed to prepare students to meet the challenges common in the workplace.
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Student Learning Outcomes
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Test, set up, and maintain various electro-mechanical systems and machinery and perform basic system calculations. -
Construct, operate, and maintain various electrical motor controllers, mechanical power transmission systems, and high-pressure fluid power systems. -
Apply various troubleshooting techniques for the identification and correction of faults in electrical, mechanical, and fluid power systems. -
Use basic mathematical calculations, communication, and teamwork concepts. General Education Requirements
TOTAL GENERAL EDUCATION CREDITS: 27
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 116 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)
Strongly Recommended: COM 115 Human Relations (3 Credits)
Recommended: ALS 101 Natural Science (8 Credits)
Fine Arts/Humanities/Social Science (3 Credits)
- any AM prefix course
- or any ANTH prefix course (except ANTH 102 and ANTH 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 GLO 101 - Introduction to Global Studies
- or GLO 110 - Globalization: Issues and Approaches
- or GLO 240 - International Development
- or GRC 103 - Introduction to Computer Graphics
- or HHP 150 - Living Healthy and Well
- 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 THTR 275)
- or VID 110 - Videography and Film I
- 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: 33
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. Core Requirements (28 Credits)
Digital Literacy Elective (0-3 Credits)
Networking Literacy (3-4 Credits)
Recommended: CIT 119B. Elective (2-7 Credits)
Recommended: AC 103B or WELD 100B |
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