Enoree Career Center

Course Syllabus Mechatronics 1, 2

Credits: 4

Teacher: S. Holcomb

Contact Info:

Phone: 864-355-7413

Email: srholcomb@greenville.k12.sc.us

Website: https://sites.google.com/greenvilleschools.us/eccmechatronics/home

Course descriptions:

Mechatronics is an interdisciplinary field of study that offers students to ability to learn about the field of engineering that includes study with a combination of various engineering disciplines such as mechanical, electrical/electronics, control systems, and robotics. The program prepares students who enjoy working with their hands as well as understanding simple to complex systems. Mechatronics is a dynamic field that changes daily with the rapid improvements in technology and computer systems. Systems are networked to meet the demands of automated manufacturing processes, and technicians are trained to meet necessary entry-level industrial skills and entry into a postsecondary program at a technical college. This class is a 2-year program that will provide the knowledge needed to pursue a career in a STEM related field, and in manufacturing for college bound students. Each student will earn an OSHA-10 certification. Dual credit with Greenville Technical College is also available.

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE: MECHATRONICS INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES

COURSE CODE: 6210, 6211

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Mechatronics students will learn the core concepts of hydraulics, pneumatics, electro-fluid power, electronics, schematics, motor controls, and basic electricity. Students will also earn an OSHA-10 certification. The goal of the program is preparing students for higher education and entry level employment into the industrial maintenance fields.

COURSE TEXTBOOKS:

Industrial Maintenance and Mechatronics

NCCER Core Curriculum - Introductory Craft Skills

NCCER South Carolina Mechatronics Integrated Technologies

Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance

COURSE COMPETENCIES:

Course Standards:

The course standards for Mechatronics are based on the standards found in the South Carolina Department of Education website. Students who successfully complete Mechatronics with a passing 60% or higher will have demonstrated the ability, concepts, knowledge, and skills required to meet those course objectives. These course standards will be provided within the syllabus.

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY (SECTION 1)

1. Explain the idea of a safety culture and its importance to mechatronics.

2. Identify causes of accidents and the impact of accident costs.

3. Explain the role of OSHA in job-site safety. *

4. Explain OSHA’s General Duty Clause and 1926 CFR Subpart C.

5. Recognize hazard recognition and risk assessment techniques.

6. Explain fall protection and ladder, stair, and scaffold procedures and requirements.

7. Identify struck-by hazards.

8. Demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements related to lock out-tag out

procedures.

9. Identify caught-in-between hazards.

10. Demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements related to caught-in-between

hazards.

11. Demonstrate safe work procedures to use around electrical hazards.

12. Demonstrate the use and care of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).

13. Explain the importance of hazard communications (HazCom) and Safety Data

Sheets (SDSs).

14. Identify other construction hazards on your job site, including hazardous material

exposures, environmental elements, welding and cutting hazards, confined spaces, and

Fires.

HAND AND POWER TOOL OPERATIONS (SECTION 2)

1. Illustrate use of basic hand and power tools (see tools and equipment list).

2. Use torque wrenches.

3. Describe the basic procedures for taking care of hand and power tools.

4. Use hand and power tools safely.

5. Demonstrate how to maintain hand and power tools properly.

6. Compare the use of threaded fasteners and non-threaded fasteners.

7. Demonstrate applications for fasteners and anchors.

8. Demonstrate use of precision measurement tools (English/standard and metric).

a. Use levels.

b. Use feeler gauges.

c. Use calipers.

d. Use micrometers.

e. Use dial indicators.

f. Use protractors.

g. Use parallels and gauge blocks.

h. Use precision straightedges.

i. Use a standard ruler and a metric ruler to measure.

9. Evaluate the metric system and how it is important in mechatronics.

10. Use metric units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.

11. Convert English/standard to metric.

12. Demonstrate the ability to perform layout work to include the use of calipers, drills,

height and depth gauges, and other measurement tools.

13. Demonstrate ability to install trouble shoot program AC/DC Drives (Allen Bradley/Siemens or appropriate companies)

BASIC MATH

Effective manufacturing professionals demonstrate basic math skills as needed in their role. The following accountability criteria are considered essential for students in the mechatronics program of study.

1. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, with and without a calculator.

2. Use a standard ruler and a metric ruler to measure.

3. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.

4. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals, with and without a calculator.

5. Convert decimals to percent and percent to decimals.

6. Convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.

7. Explain what the metric system is and how it is important in the construction trade.

8. Recognize and use metric units of length, weight, volume, and temperature.

9. Recognize some of the basic shapes used in the construction industry and apply basic geometry to measure them.

AC-DC CIRCUITS (SECTION 4)

1. Recognize what atoms are and how they are constructed.

2. Identify ways in which voltage can be produced.

3. Demonstrate the difference between conductors and insulators.

4. Define the units of measurement that are used to measure the properties of electricity.

5. Explain how voltage, current, and resistance are related to each other.

6. Calculate electrical quantities using Ohm's Law.

7. Calculate the amount of power used by a circuit.

8. Demonstrate understanding of capacitance and inductance in a DC circuit.

9. Construct a basic series circuit.

10. Construct a basic parallel circuit.

11. Construct a series-parallel combination circuit.

12. Calculate, using Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law, the voltage drops and total current in series,

parallel, and series-parallel circuits.

13. Measure the total amount of resistance in a series circuit.

14. Measure the total amount of resistance in a parallel circuit.

15. Measure the total amount of resistance in a series-parallel circuit.

16. Compare calculated and measured electrical properties.

Class Procedures and Class Rules:

Seating: Each student should take their assigned seat in the class immediately upon entering the classroom. Roll will be recorded based on your presence in your seat.

Daily Bell-ringer Assignment: An initial assignment will be posted each day. Immediately begin work on the posted assignment, prior to the class starting. See Whiteboard and/or Google Classroom.

Students receive a “Enoree Career Center Student Handbook” outlining daily operations and procedures followed at Enoree Career Center. Class Rules are posted on the wall of the classroom as well as below:

CLASS RULES

1. Think “Safety” at all times.

2. Be on time. That means in the classroom, prepared to start before the bell rings. If you enter the classroom after the bell rings you must have a signed pass from the main office.

3. Have a positive attitude.

4. You are responsible for your own learning. Be prepared. Put forth effort. Ask questions.

5. Only respectful behavior is tolerated. Be respectful of yourself, your peers, faculty and staff of ECC, and guests, as well as their belongings.

6. Stay on task. Full participation is expected and appreciated. Put cell phones away during class time.

7. Abide by all rules and policies as established in the Student Handbook. Read it. Understand it.

8. NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED IN CLASS OR LAB UNLESS DIRECTED BY INSTRUCTOR.

9. Absolutely no horseplay is allowed, for safety reasons. You are expected to behave like a young adult and be respectful of yourself and others.

Mr. Holcomb's Daily Schedule

8:30 - 8:45 Planning

8:45 - 11:40 AM Class - Mechatronics 1 & 2

11:40 - 12:30 Lunch / Break / Planning

12:45 - 3:20 PM Class - Mechatronics 3 & 4

3:30 - 3:45 Planning

Grades: Student progress is cumulatively assessed each nine weeks in the following way:

Major Grades (60 %) - Major Tests, Projects, and Major writing Assignments

Minor Grades (40 %) - Formative Assessments, weekly projects, Quizzes, and Employability

Grading Scale:

A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 50-59

Dual Credit Grading Scale TBD

Make- Up Work

Learning is a continuous process; therefore, a student who misses a class for any reason will be expected to make-up the work missed in a timely manner, whether it is a team activity, presentation, quiz, test, reading/writing assignment, etc.

• The instructor reserves the right to establish an absolute deadline for makeup work in order to meet grading deadlines.

Make up work:

1). Employ-Ability grade has built in point value reductions already so make up is not possible.

2). Any missed test or labs must be made up within one week. Each weekly day late will be a progression of reduced grade. One day - 15, 2 day -20, 3 day - 30, 4 day -40, 5 day -50. After 5 class days the assignments cannot be made up and will receive a score of zero.

3). Any late assignment will be given a grade of 0 representing that the grade still can be made up late. If a score of 0 has been given and the time period of makeup has passed the grade of 0 will remain.