Automation Engineering Technology - Maintenance/Repair, Associate of Applied Science

Curriculum Code #6210

Effective May 2023

Division of Engineering, Business and Information Technologies

The automation engineering technologies degree trains students to repair, troubleshoot and maintain automated equipment commonly used in industry such as robots and computer numerical control equipment (CNC). Students become valued members of a manufacturing team. Employment opportunities include: field service representative, factory service representative, maintenance technician, automation repair technician, robotics technician or maintenance supervisor. Lorain County Community College has articulation agreements with colleges and universities including programs offered by Lorain County Community College’s University Partnership.

Plan of Study Grid
First Year
Fall SemesterHours
AETC 115 INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS I 3
CADD 111 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING 1 2
ELCT 111 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS I 3
MTHM 155 TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS I 4
SDEV 101 INTRODUCTION TO THE LCCC COMMUNITY 3 1
TECN 111 TECHNICAL PROBLEM SOLVING 3
 Hours16
Spring Semester
AETC 121 PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS 3
ELCT 112 ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS II 2 4
ENGL 161 COLLEGE COMPOSITION I 3
MTHM 168 STATISTICS 3
TECN 121 FLUID POWER 3
 Hours16
Second Year
Fall Semester
AETC 211 WORKCELL INTERFACING 2 3
AETC 287 WORK-BASED LEARNING I - AETC 2 1
ELCT 233 ELECTRONIC DEVICES I 2 4
ENGL 164 COLLEGE COMPOSITION II WITH TECHNICAL TOPICS 3
PHYC 150 GENERAL PHYSICS I 2 4
TECN 115 INDUSTRIAL BLUEPRINT READING 2
 Hours17
Spring Semester
AETC 288 WORK BASED LEARNING II - AETC 2 1
CAMM 111 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROL 1 2
ELCT 211 ELECTRICAL POWER AND DEVICES 2 4
TECN 133 MECHANICAL SYSTEMS 2 3
Arts and Humanities Elective 4 3
Social Sciences Elective (HSTR 260G Preferred) 5 3
 Hours16
 Total Hours65
1

Indicates that this course has a prerequisite or may be taken concurrently.

2

Indicates that this course requires a prerequisite.

3

A student must register for the orientation course when enrolling for more than six credit hours per semester or any course that would result in an accumulation of 13 or more credit hours.

4

Select any Arts and Humanities Ohio Transfer 36 course.

5

Select any Social Science Ohio Transfer 36 course.

Program Contact(s):

Scott Zitek
440-366-7024
rzitek@lorainccc.edu

For information about admissions, enrollment, transfer, graduation and other general questions, please contact your advising team.

More program information can be found on our website.

Program Learning Outcomes 

  1. Apply appropriate techniques and tools in the industrial automation field
  2. Apply knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve well-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline.
  3. Demonstrate the programing of robots and programmable controllers to industry standards.
  4. Apply current standards of communication between various industrial equipment (eg.  Voltage conversions, isolation techniques...)