MTX 150 - Mechatronics Technician 6

Credits: 1-13
Students will develop Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) troubleshooting skills through instruction and hands-on experience. Students will also gain the fundamental skills and knowledge to program multiple variations of PLCs. Students will work on core training needed to implement, and program, robotics and automation through the use of digital and analog inputs and outputs.

Enrollment Requirement: MTX 140 with a grade of 2.0 or higher; or instructor consent.

Course Fee: $50.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Test, troubleshoot, and modify PLC systems.
Perform intermediate PLC programming.
Identify and understand the use of Siemen’s PLC’s components and their functions.
Perform Siemen’s PLC programming.
Troubleshoot a hydraulic system.
Learn the fundamentals of robotics and automation
Perform Universal Robotic core programming
Identify and understand the use of Universal Robots ‘e-Series” robotic components and their functions.

Program Outcomes

Work as a mechatronics technician.
Demonstrate OSHA and WISHA standards for safety in the workplace.
Troubleshoot and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical and electronic industrial equipment.
Explain the consequences of failure to comply with company and basic safety principles.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.