NEW PROGRAM FOR 2023-2024
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Limited Entry - Apprenticeship Program
The Advanced Manufacturing Technician curriculum is designed to prepare students through the study and application of principles from mathematics, natural sciences, technology, and applied processes as part of the NC Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education Program (FAME). The program combines college coursework with paid, on-the-job training and experience, as well as personal behaviors and core manufacturing skills sought after by local and national manufacturers. The cutting-edge curriculum and paid work experience integrates highly desired business principles and best practices of world-class manufacturers.
Graduates should qualify to obtain occupations such as technical service providers, materials and technologies testing services, process improvement technicians, engineering technicians, industrial and technology managers, or research technicians. A course of study that prepares the students to use basic engineering principles and technical skills in developing and testing automated, servo-mechanical, and other electromechanical systems. Includes instruction in prototype testing, manufacturing and operational testing, systems analysis and maintenance procedures. Graduates should be qualified for employment in industrial maintenance and manufacturing including assembly, testing, startup, troubleshooting, repair, process improvement, and control systems, and should qualify to sit for Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) mechatronics or similar industry examinations.
Program Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Advanced Manufacturing Technician degree, the graduate should be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in mechatronics systems.
- Perform preventive maintenance on a variety of industrial systems involving electronics, sensors, actuators, fluid mechanics, instrumentation, and controls.
- Write programs for controllers used in mechatronics systems
- Demonstrate methods for isolating problems in mechatronics systems, including those involving electrical, fluid power, mechanical, operator, and process origins.
- Effectively communicate function of components used in a loop control system.
- Demonstrate proficiency in mechanics, basic welding, machining, and metal working.
- Demonstrate the FAME Professional Behaviors that are expected for daily workplace application.
- Perform all work within safety guidelines established by Mechatronics department and equipment manufacturers.
- Utilize Lean manufacturing concepts and practices.
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