AVM 4150 — Automation 1

3 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: falltypical days: WBostonTraditional

Offers an overview of the important concepts of industrial automation: analog/digital; input/output; continuous, synchronous, and asynchronous processes; components and hardware; process and machine systems; and automated machinery. Offers students an opportunity to gain thorough knowledge of the internals of a Programmable Logic Circuit (PLC), as well as an opportunity to create simple programs for a set of control requirements. Requires students to undertake a project to design a control scheme, program the same on PLC simulation software, and test the operation of that program.

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Offering history

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Unlocks

AVM 4160, GET 4840

Courses that list AVM 4150 in their prerequisites.

Links

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