Diesel Power Technology
Certificate
[ Josh Gahagan ]
The Diesel Power Technology program is an instructional program that provides students with competencies required to maintain and repair a variety of industrial diesel equipment, including agricultural tractors, commercial trucks, and construction equipment. The program includes instruction in computer operations, electrical systems, electronic diagnostics, troubleshooting techniques of engines, power trains, hydraulic systems, and other components. Diesel mechanics use a variety of tools and testing and diagnostic equipment in their work. Ethics and leadership skills in the workplace are taught as integral components throughout the curriculum.
The Diesel Power Technology program prepares the graduate for employment in the field of diesel power technology through experience and laboratory based applications in repairing engines, fuel injection systems, transmissions, clutches, rear ends; pneumatic and hydraulic systems, electrical systems, power trains and auxiliary systems relative to diesel mechanics. Students enrolling in the certificate option program must have a high school diploma or equilvalency.
CIP Code: 470605
Program Code: 9706
Freshman Year
First Semester — 13 hrs
Review and update of safety procedures; tools and equipment usage; handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials; operating principles of diesel engines; and selection of fuels, oils, other lubricants, and coolants. Four hours lecture.
Diagnosis, service, and repair of electrical and electronic systems on diesel engines. Includes instruction in general systems diagnosis, starting and charging systems. Two hours lecture and two hours laboratory.
Diagnosis, service, and repair of electrical and electronic systems on diesel engines. Includes instruction on lighting systems, gauges and warning devices, and related electrical systems. One hour lecture and four hours laboratory.
An advisor approved elective in the technical field.
Second Semester — 14 hrs
Practice in the preventive maintenance of diesel powered equipment. Includes instruction in general preventive maintenance of vehicles and equipment. Two hours lecture and four hours laboratory.
Course designed to provide skills and knowledge related to the operation, maintenance, and repair of air conditioning and heating systems used in commercial equipment, includes instruction in theories and operating principles, A/C system diagnosis and repair, clutch and compressor repair, evaporator and condenser repair, and heating system repair. Two hours lecture and two hours laboratory.
Diagnosis, service and repair of basic engine operating principles, with an emphasis on cylinder head and valve train engine block. Two hours lecture and four hours laboratory.
An advisor approved elective in the technical field.
Summer
Summer — 6 hrs
A course which is a cooperative program between industry and education designed to integrate the student’s technical studies with industrial experience. Eighteen hours work experience per week.