Course

10605145 Control Systems
Course Information
Description
In our regional area, there is a steady increasing demand for graduates with  PLC programming skills and automation. In this class, the students will be gaining theoretical and hands-on experience in the world of PLCs and industrial automation. Students will be able to design, program, wire, and execute complex automated tasks. The gained experience will not only add newer set of skills to their degree, but also assist them in landing on good paying jobs.  
Furthermore, according to the recent changes to our transfer agreement with Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), we are required to offer this new class to our students who are graduating with Electrical Engineering Technology degree. The class will be fully transferable to MSOE. Therefore, it is cost effective and time efficient to our students who are pursuing completion at MSOE. The class can be open to Electronics Technology students if they get teacher’s consent.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies (Course Outcomes)
  1. Describe the architecture of a programmable logic controller (PLC)
    Assessment Strategies
    By completing one or more lab activities
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing lab performance activities
    Criteria
    You summarize the PLC program scan sequence
    You identify the main parts of a PLC system
    You describe the function of the hardware components used in PLC systems
    You describe the memory map and input/output image tables

  2. Analyze Boolean ladder logic
    Assessment Strategies
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing one or more lab activities
    On a performance based assessment
    Criteria
    When you identify Boolean Algebraic relationship
    When you develop Boolean Algebraic relationship in a PLC ladder system

  3. Associate I/O addresses to field devices
    Assessment Strategies
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing one or more lab activities
    On a performance based assessment
    Criteria
    You download programs into a PLC
    You successfully run programs

  4. Interface programming environment to PLC
    Assessment Strategies
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing one or more lab activities
    On a performance based assessment
    Criteria
    You configure communication
    You create, edit, and download a program
    You enter the program into the PLC
    You prove the operation by monitoring the program

  5. Apply instructions to a PLC program
    Assessment Strategies
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing one or more lab activities
    On a performance based assessment
    Criteria
    You select the programming symbols
    You utilize bit instructions
    You utilize timer instructions
    You utilize counter instructions
    You utilize word instructions

  6. Formulate the algorithm and create a PLC program that uses timers, counters, and comparison arithmetic from a system specification.
    Assessment Strategies
    Using simulation and/or actual components
    By completing one or more lab activities
    On a performance based assessment
    Criteria
    You list the program input and output specifications
    You create a flow chart of the algorithm that meets the specifications
    You use programming environment to create new PLC programs
    You use programming environment to troubleshoot PLC