Program Placement Rate:

100%

Source 2016-17 Dunwoody Career Services Annual Report

Industrial Controls

Looking to fast track your career in automated manufacturing? Take evening classes and earn a certificate in Industrial Controls.

8.4

Job Inquiries Per Dunwoody Graduate

Source 2016-17 Dunwoody Career Services Annual Report

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Graduates earn an industry-recognized certificate

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Dunwoody Industrial Controls

Gain the hands-on experience and entry-level skills needed to get a job in the electronics industry with a certificate in Industrial Controls.

Through hands-on projects, you’ll learn the basics of wiring and programming the latest programmable logic controllers (PLCs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), and motor controls.

Dunwoody’s program curriculum is aligned with standards set forth by:

  • Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
  • Institute of Packing Professionals (IoPP)
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

This means that you graduate with the skills and credentials you need to get a good job in a wide variety of manufacturing-related industries.

Credits earned in the Industrial Controls certificate directly transfer into Dunwoody’s Industrial Controls & Robotics, Automated Systems & Robotics, or Electronics Technology associate’s degree programs.

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Class topics include:

  • Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory
  • Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory
  • Algebra
  • Trigonometry

LIST OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS & COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

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Student Organizations

Opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom include:

  • Combat Robots
  • Robotic Snow Plow Team
  • SkillsUSA
  • Student Government Association (SGA)

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Facilities

Industrial Controls and PLC Lab

 Learn to debug and program programmable logic controllers for use in a variety of control systems.
  • 6 Arduino microcontroller trainers
  • 6 NIDA microprocessor trainers
Fanuc Robotics Lab

Fanuc-certified Industrial Robotics Lab

 Learn to program Fanuc-certified training robots.
  • 7 Fanuc Industrial Robot Arms with machine visioning

Industrial Packaging Lab

 Assemble, configure, and program an array of packaging machinery to move a product from its initial state to packaged, wrapped, boxed, and palletized.
  • Fanuc Industrial Robot Arm
  • Edson Case Packer
  • Scandia Diamond Wrapper
  • MGS Cartoner
  • Checkmate Checkweigher
  • Label-Aire Labeler
  • Doboy Shrink Tunnel
HAAS Manufacturing Lab

Haas Manufacturing Center

 Learn to machine parts on both manual and computer numeric controlled (CNC) machines as well as how to measure and inspect your work.
  • 10 Haas CNC vertical mills
  • 4 Haas CNC turning centers
  • 1 Haas CNC horizontal mill
  • 12 Bridegeport vertical mills
  • 12 manual lathes
  • 1 Sodick Wire Electrical Discharge Machining machine
  • 1 Charmilles Sinker Electrical Discharge Machining machine
  • assorted grinders, saws, cutters, drills
  • assorted inspection tools, including micrometers, calipers, gage blocks
Metrology Lab

Engineering, Materials, Mechanics & Metrology Lab

 Open to all manufacturing and engineering students (and those with training on the equipment), this lab brings together equipment for additive manufacturing, material testing, measurement,...
  • Three Stratasys Fortus Additive Manufacturing Centers (3D printers)
  • Zeiss Duramax (tactile coordinate measuring machine with 500 X 500 X 500 mm capacity)
  • Zeiss Stemi 305 Axiocam 105 Microscope
  • MTS Criterion 43 Universal Test System
  • 7 Haas CNC machine control simulators