Electrical & Instrumentation Technology

Scot Vaughn, Instructor

This program is designed to prepare students for employment as industrial electricians, instrument mechanics, process control technicians, operators, equipment installers, or construction electricians, and to provide supplemental training for persons previously or currently employed in these areas.

The course content includes: electrical construction, national electrical code, motors and control, power generation, and distribution, programmable logic controllers, instrumentation devices, process control operations and configuration, supervisory computer control, and maintenance and repair of a variety of systems found in industrial operations including motor drives, pneumatic control systems, hydraulic control systems, computer based control systems and instrumentation. . The program carries strong industry support, and full-time students have the opportunity to apply for three-month cooperative training periods that alternate with three-month classroom training experiences. Students must be 16 years of age in order to be admitted to the program.  Students who do not meet the minimum grade levels for this program (Reading: 10.0, Math: 10.0, Language: 10.0)will be required to enroll in the Vocational Preparatory Instruction Lab in order to receive a Certificate of Completion.

Electrical and Instrumentation I

Purpose

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order rea­soning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to communication skills, leadership skills, human relations and employability skills, safe and efficient work practices, and the technical training to support professional personnel in the engineering, design, development and evaluation of electrical and instrument systems. Laboratory activities are an integral part of this program.  These activities include instruction in the use of safety procedures, tools, equipment, materials, and processes related to these occupations.

Program Structure 

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of three occupational completion points. When offered at the post secondary adult career and technical level, this program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S.  Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3)(b), F.S.

The following table illustrates the program structure:

Typically, a student can expect to complete this program in 1000 hours.  Students who do not meet the minimum grade levels for this program (Reading: 10.0, Math: 11.0, Language: 10.0) will be required to enroll in the Vocational Preparatory  Instruction Lab for remediation in order to receive a Certificate of Completion.

According to TTI's most current annual report (2009-2010 data) the students in this program had a 91% completion rate and 97% total placement rate. For information relating to costs of fees and equipment please click here.

Electrical and Instrumentation II

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order rea­soning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to communication skills, leadership skills, human relations and employability skills, safe and efficient work practices, and the technical training to support professional personnel in the engineering, design, development and evaluation of electrical and instrument systems.

Program Structure

This program is a planned sequence of instruction consisting of two occupational completion points. When offered at the post secondary adult career and technical level, this program is comprised of courses which have been assigned course numbers in the SCNS (Statewide Course Numbering System) in accordance with Section 1007.24 (1), F.S.  Career and Technical credit shall be awarded to the student on a transcript in accordance with Section 1001.44(3)(b), F.S. The standard length of this program is 800 hours.  Electrical and Instrumentation Technology 1 is a core program.  It is recommended that students complete Electrical and Instrumentation Technology 1 or demonstrate mastery of the outcomes in that program prior to enrollment in Electrical and Instrumentation Technology 2.

The following table illustrates the program structure:

According to TTI's most current annual report (2009-2010 data) the students in this program had a 60% completion rate and 100% total placement rate. For information relating to costs of fees and equipment please click here.