PLA Portfolio Assessment Course Subjects

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Electrical Wiring (ELE-141) 3 credits

Course Description
Fundamentals of electrical wiring explored and developed. Consideration given to wiring needs and requirements as applied to residential structures. The basic skills of electricity are designed to simulate the electrical construction environment. Execution of projects using electrical tools and materials. Fabrication/analysis of experiments from simple parallel and series circuits to complex servo-circuits.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Describe the fundamentals of electrical wiring.
Describe safety considerations in electrical wiring.
Provide evidence of experience of electrical wiring in construction.
Identify critical tools for electrical wiring in construction.
Identify simple series and parallel circuits.
Use basic analysis to determine voltage and currents in series and parallel circuits.

Electrical Print Reading: Control Portfolio (ELE-143) 3 credits

Course Description
This course provides a thorough coverage of control devices, symbols, and control diagrams of typical electrical machinery. Manual, automatic and remote control circuits are analyzed from a drawing, interpreting, analyzing and troubleshooting standpoint.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Discuss the typical elements found in diagrams of electrical machinery.
Describe the basic functions of the typical elements found in electrical machinery diagrams.
Given an electrical machine diagram, identify the type of control (manual, remote, etc.)
Provide evidence of the use of diagrams of electrical machinery.
Describe the main function of a circuit given its electrical machinery diagram.

Transmission and Distribution (ELE-231) 3 credits

Course Description
Review of electric power transmission and distribution systems currently used by electric utility companies from the generating plant to the customer's service.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Describe the main elements of electrical power transmission.
Describe the main elements of electrical power distribution.
Discuss advantages and problems of the current methods used for power transmission and distribution.
Given an electrical transmission and distribution system, determine potential problems.
Identify future trends to be used by electric utility companies.
Provide evidence of experience with power transmission and distribution.

History of Technology (HIS-390) 3 credits

Course Description
The development of electrical and electronic technology from the mid- nineteenth century to the present, including the impact of electrotechnology on society.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Explain the milestones in development of electrical and electronic technology from the mid- nineteenth century to the present
Provide a list of major inventions by inventors.
Describe the impact of electro technology on society.
Discuss the current research topics on electrical and electronic technology.

Instrumentation Theory (PSG-102) 3 credits

Course Description
Instrumentation Theory provides an overview of the basic electrical principles involved in polysomnographic recording. The course covers, in detail, issues related to patient safety, operation of PSG equipment, recording specifications involved in data acquisition, troubleshooting of recording equipment, and patient documentation.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Relate basic electrical principles to the performance of polysomnography.
Summarize the principles of electrical safety.
Explain the principles of operation of PSG equipment.
Explain the effects of digital sampling and resolution factors and time-base on signal display quality.
Outline the frequency and voltage characteristics of the physiologic signals measured during polysomnography.
Explain the principles of operation of ancillary monitoring equipment.
Choose, interface, and calibrate ancillary recording equipment.
Explain the principles of operation of oximeters and capnographs.
Explain the principles of electrode function and impedance measurements.
Explain the principles of analog and digital signal calibration.
Determine appropriate recording parameters based on the signal to be recorded.
Differentiate physiological signals from artifact.
Explain the principles for determining data validity.
Explain the principles of derivation, amplifier, and environmental alteration and documentation.

Interpretation of Building Plans and Specifications (CET-171) 3 credits

Course Description
A course to familiarize the student with the basic knowledge of how to read and interpret building plans and specifications. The student studies in detail the site plan, and abbreviations of a standard set of contract plans. The related specifications for wood, steel and concrete construction and electrical and mechanical systems are covered.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Describe how to read and interpret building plans and specifications.
Using an example of a building plan, real or invented, students must explain the information conveyed by the plan.
Describe and explain with examples specifications for wooden parts.
Describe and explain with examples specifications for steel parts.
Describe and explain with examples specifications for concrete parts.
Describe and explain with examples specifications for mechanical systems.
Describe and explain with examples specifications for electrical systems.

Properties of Nonmetals (EGM-453) 3 credits

Course Description
Survey of non-metals including plastics, ceramics, glasses, cements and composite materials. Strength properties of these materials. Problems inherent in the manufacturing and use of non-metallic materials.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Explain why non-metals have low melting points, are poor electrical and heat conductors and are brittle in solid state.
Define stress, strain, creep, stiffness (modulus), yield point, tensile strength, elongation and shear strength, compressive strength and flexural strength, torsional strength, fatigue strength, impact strength and Poisson's Ratio as related to materials.
Describe what affect(s) the performance of a plastic.
Review the thermal properties of plastics and indicate the significance of specific gravity and the coefficient of expansion.
Compare the electrical properties of plastics, ceramics, glasses and composite materials. Emphasize the importance of volume resistivity, thermal conductivity and surface resistivity.
Explain how to enhance the performance of plastics, ceramics, glasses, cements and composite materials, e.g. additives, reinforcements, colorants, etc.
Discuss what environmental factors must be taken into account such that plastics, ceramics, glasses and composite materials don't fail under test.
Indicate what decisions should be made when selecting a material for an application, e.g. withstanding impact, cyclic loading, exposure to chemicals or moisture, usage in electrical design, and loading.
Identify problems inherent in the manufacturing of non-metallic materials.
Describe problems encountered in the use of non-metallic materials.

Electrical Print Reading (ELE-142) 3 credits

Course Description
This course is an introduction to electrical symbols, diagrams and schematics. The differences between pictorial, wiring, and schematic diagrams are discussed and shown. The student will develop proficiency in sketching/drawing components along with the various types of diagrams.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Discuss the input, logic, and output devices, and the state in which symbols are drawn on electrical schematics.
Describe the symbols for manual and process actuated input devices and how they are represented on electrical schematics.
Define the function of logic and output elements of a control circuit and describe the symbols for various logic and output devices.
Discuss your experience in interpreting the relationships among the input, logic and output components of an electric schematic.
Discuss your experience in building electrical diagrams as well as identifying components, cables, and conduits.
Provide evidence of identifying loads, equipment, and isolation breakers on single-line diagrams.
Providence evidence of identifying components, equipment, wires and cables on wiring diagrams. Include evidence of relating wiring diagrams to installed hardware.
Describe your experience of using wiring diagrams for maintenance and troubleshooting problems.

Power System Analysis (ELE-431) 3 credits

Course Description
Senior-level course in electric power systems. Load flow problems, economic dispatch strategy, symmetrical and unsymmetrical fault analysis, and the transient stability problem in the power area with computer simulations.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Discuss load flow problems in power systems.
Identify strategies for power flow to loads.
Discuss symmetrical and unsymmetrical analysis of faults in power systems.
Provide evidence of analysis and operation of electrical power systems.
Provide evidence of using computer simulations in electrical power analysis.
Discuss problems associated to transient stability.
Identify solutions used in power systems for transient stability.

Engineering Properties of Plastics (EGM-472) 3 credits

Course Description
A study of the physical properties of the various commercial thermoset & thermoplastic resins. An introduction to linear viscoelastic theory & its relationship to measurable mechanical properties of plastics. Other engineering properties such as flammability, chemical resistance, & electrical properties will be discussed.

Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:

Classify by chemical structure the two recognized classes of plastic materials.
Identify the important types of polymer properties and justify their importance.
Describe the important applications of polymers and explain how they are being influenced by the polymer properties.
Distinguish between viscous, elastic and viscoelastic behavior.
Explain the important terms in a Stress-Strain Curve from a tensile testing.
Describe the method to conduct hardness testing of polymers.
Discuss the testing method to determine the various electrical properties
Explain how to find the Chemical Resistance of Certain Polymers.
Describe the various degradation processes of polymers and explain the methods to improve Resistance to Degradation.
Elaborate on the requirements for flammability and the various types of fire test methods. Explain the methods to improve Resistance to Flammability and discuss the general fire properties of some Plastics.
Review the requirements for polymers to function as rubbers and describe the thermodynamics of elasticity.
Provide some statistics of ideal rubber elasticity.

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