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- Effective Term:
- Winter 2015 through Summer 2017
- Course Number:
- APR 162
- Course Title:
- Calculations for the Trades
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Covers measurements and calculations used in industrial and commercial facilities settings. Includes linear and volume measurement methods using analog and digital tools and instruments: ruler, caliper, micrometer, dial indicator etc. Focuses on the use of fractions, decimals, powers, roots, algebraic equations, geometry, and right angle trigonometry to perform calculations for equipment repair, maintenance, installation, and operation. Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
Required course for Apprentices registered in the Millwright/Industrial Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship Program. It is open to any other student but requires Department Permission to take this course.
Intended Outcomes for the course
- Obtain and record measurements in facilities and industrial settings using a variety of measuring instruments in order to repair, maintain, install and operate mechanical equipment.
- Calculate areas, volumes, lengths, angles, speeds, velocities, pressures, temperatures, volts, amps, ohms, and watts in facilities and industrial settings in order to the repair, maintain, install, and operate mechanical equipment.
- *Calculate elementary algebraic equations and formulas (*required statewide outcome).
- *Apply appropriate formulas to mathematical situations (*required statewide outcome).
Course Activities and Design
The course design is primarily lecture with emphasis on measurements and calculations that apply to real-world scenarios in Facilities and Industrial settings which are relevant to repair, maintenance, installation and operation of equipment.
Course activities include:
- Calculating areas and volumes
- Calculating speed and velocity
- Calculating pressures and temperatures and their relationship
- Ohm's Law calculations
- Application of a variety of measuring instruments to calculations
- Using a hand held calculator
- Reliance on specific long hand calculations
- Use of the Vernier micrometer
- Use of the Caliper
- Care of measuring instruments
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Assessment will be accomplished using skills' checklists filled out by an adequate sampling of Millwright/Industrial Maintenance Technician Training Agents and/or an Apprentice's Journey Person.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Measure and calculate volts, amps, ohms, and watts in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate volume in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate length in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate angles using a variety in instruments in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate speed in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate velocity in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate pressure in Facilities and Industrial settings
- Measure and calculate temperature in Facilities and Industrial settings