Program Capabilities outline what skills students should possess as they progress through each term/year of their program.
Students and employers will find this information most useful and can reference either the list of skills or the full program capabilities document to ensure students are gaining the experience they need to fulfill the program requirements.
Co-op Term 1 & 2
- Calibrate process instruments to required specifications in accordance with the recommended procedures and manufacturers directives
- Become familiar with basic business and sustainability principles
- Calibrate and configure control valves and actuators for a specified application
- Write technical reports based on the collection and study of technical data
- To apply various analytical process variables
- To develop and interpret calibration curves for instrumentation equipment
- Able to select appropriate transmitters to measure pressure, temperature, levels, and flows
- To analyze and construct simple AC and DC circuits
- Use test equipment such as DC and AC meters and oscilloscope
- To use automated drawing tools (AutoCAD) on microcomputers to prepare Instrumentation, Electrical and Mechanical drawings
- Use of spread sheets as an aid in problem-solving
- Gain proficiency at bread boarding, test power-supplies, amplifiers, oscillators, etc., using diodes, bipolar transistors, field-effect transistors, and/or integrated circuits
- Knowledgeably discuss digital techniques and logic circuits for control applications
- Perform single-phase and three-phase power and torque calculations involving AC and DC motors/generators, and power transformers
- Use process parameters to correctly size orifice plates for flow metering
- Calculate Reynolds number for liquid flow systems
- Analyse simple control-loop behaviour
- Select appropriate tuning techniques to optimally tune 3-mode process controllers
- Gain basic understanding of the principles behind multiple loop control such as cascade and ratio control
- Perform process identifications and analyze simple control loop behavior
- To tune PID controller
- Become familiar with basic feedback, ratio, multi variable and cascade control loops
- Understand all components required for control loops
Co-op Term 3
- Size basic process equipment such as pumps and shell-and-tube exchangers
- Describe the fundamental principles of chromatography, spectrophotometry, pH and various other chemical analysers
- Trouble-shoot on-line analyser sampling-systems for both gas and liquid streams
- Apply statistical techniques to achieve quality control
- Program robot arms and interface with a variety of industrial automation types of sensors, including vision systems
- Program a microcomputer-based chromatographic analyzer system
- Analyze, configure, and troubleshoot common industrial networks
Upon Graduation
- Gain knowledge of principles of operation and control, using protective relays and PLC of various types of rotating electrical machines
- Describe fundamental principles of chromatography, spectrophotometry, pH and various chemical analysers
- Trouble-shoot on-line analyser sampling-systems for both gas and liquid streams
- Select, program and apply PLC to appropriate applications
- Apply statistical techniques to achieve quality control
- Implement feed forward-feedback control schemes using various distributed control systems
- Program robot arms and interface with a variety of industrial automation types of sensors, including vision systems
- Interpret industrial power feed system diagrams, and have knowledge of the purpose of components in 3-phase electrical systems
- Program a chromatographic analyzer system
- Calculate scaling-factors for multi-variable control systems
- Configure multiple-loop control strategies for DeltaV, Experion, and Foxboro IA distributed-control systems
- Apply feed forward-control, taking into account dynamic lead/lag compensation, to various operations including: distillation, reactors, fired-heaters etc.
- Analyze, configure, and troubleshoot common industrial networks