Lecture Hours: 3; Lab Hours:0 This course provides an overview of hazardous materials. It discusses the health effects of these substances on the ecosystem and introduces the legislation intended to minimize risks to the population at large. HAZWOPER Certification available.
Lecture Hours:3; Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces the field of process operations within the process industry and reviews the roles and responsibilities of process technicians, the environment in which they work, and the equipment and systems that they operate.
Schedule type: Web
Lecture Hours: 3; Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces various types of plant hazards, safety and environmental systems and equipment, and industry regulations. OSHA certification available upon completion of course.
Schedule type: Independent Study
Lecture Hours:0: Lab Hours: 3 The course familiarizes students with different petroleum refinery laboratory techniques involving products such as gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, and diesel as well as product quality control. It emphasizes the theory, operation, and significance of each test covered
Schedule type: Independent Study
Lecture Hours: 2; Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to introduce the student to the equipment and methodologies used by the industry for monitoring performance and controlling processes. Topics addressed include common terminologies, basic principles of measurement and instrumentation, specific hardware, performance characteristics, control loops, typical applications and operating limits
Pre-requisite(s): PTEC 1010, MATH 0990, MATH 1299, MATH 1300
Co-requisite(s): PTEC 1331
Schedule type: Lecture, Web
Lecture Hours: 0; Lab Hours: 2 This course is designed to introduce the student to laboratory exercises and activities involving equipment and methodologies used by the industry for monitoring performance and controlling processes. Topics addressed include common terminologies, basic principles of measurement and instrumentation, specific hardware, performance characteristics, control loops, typical applications and operating limits.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 0990, MATH 1300, MATH 1299
Co-requisite(s): PTEC 1330
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Web
Lecture Hours: 2; Lab Hours: 0 This course is a study of process plant equipment including their construction, principles of operations, maintenance and utilization within the process industry. Equipment to be studied includes piping, valves, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, red furnaces, steam and gas turbines.
Pre-requisite(s): MATH 0990
Schedule type: Lecture, Web
Lecture Hours: 0; Lab Hours: 2 This course is a study of process plant equipment and is designed to introduce he student to laboratory exercises and activities involving equipment materials of construction, principles of operations, maintenance and utilization within the process industry. Equipment to be studied includes piping, valves, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, red furnaces, steam and gas turbines.
Co-requisite(s): PTEC 1630
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Web
Lecture Hours:3: Lab Hours: 0 This course familiarizes students with the job of the oil and gas production technician. Students learn the history of the oil market, concepts surrounding exploration and geology, and the fundamentals of drilling and well completion. Upon completion of the course, they are able to describe and operate the equipment and systems used by the oil and gas production technician today. Schedule Types: Lecture/Lab
Schedule type: Independent Study
Lecture Hours: 3; Lab Hours:0 This course introduces many process industry related quality concepts including operating consistency, continuous improvement, plant economics, team skills, and statistical process control.
Lecture Hours: 2; Lab Hours: 0 PTEC 2420 – Process Technology II (Unit Systems) This course studies the interrelation of process equipment and process systems by arranging process equipment into basic systems, describing the purpose and function of specific process systems, explaining how factors affecting process systems are controlled under normal conditions, and recognizing abnormal process conditions. It also introduces the concept of system and plant economics.
Pre-requisite(s): PTEC 1010, MATH 0990
Schedule type: Independent Study, Web
Lecture Hours: 0; Lab Hours: 1 Provides laboratory exercises and activities involving the interrelation of process equipment and process systems that complement the content of PTEC 2420, Process Technology Systems II. Covers arranging process equipment into basic systems; the relationship between different pieces of equipment in systems; safety, health, and environmental concerns associated with process systems and the roles of the operator.
Schedule type: Independent Study, Laboratory, Web
Lecture Hours: 3; Lab Hours: 0 PTEC 2430 – Process Technology III (Operations) This course teaches the operation of an entire unit within the process industry using the students’ existing knowledge of equipment, systems, and instrumentation. It also examines concepts related to equipment, systems, and instrumentation. It also examines concepts related to commissioning, normal startup, normal operations, normal shutdown, turnarounds, and abnormal situations, as well as the process technician’s role in performing the tasks associated with these concepts within an operating unit.
Schedule type: Lecture, Web
Lecture Hours: 0; Lab Hours: 2 This course is designed to introduce students to laboratory exercises, process simulations and other activities that occur within the process industry using existing knowledge of equipment, systems, and instrumentation. Concepts covered will be related to commissioning, normal startup, operations, normal shutdown, turnarounds, safety, environmental, and abnormal situations, as well as the process technician’s daily roles and responsibilities in performing tasks associated with concepts utilized within an industrial processing unit.
Pre-requisite(s): PTEC 2420, PTEC 2421
Co-requisite(s): PTEC 2430
Schedule type: Laboratory
Lecture Hours: 2; Lab Hours: 1 This course applies a six-step troubleshooting method for solving and correcting operation problems. It focuses on malfunctions as opposed to process design or configuration improvements. It uses data from the instrumentation to determine the cause for abnormal conditions in an organized and regimented way.
Pre-requisite(s): PTEC 2420
Schedule type: Lecture, Web
Lecture Hours: 3; Lab Hours: 0 This course addresses fluids, fluid types, and the chemical and physical natures and factors affecting fluids while in motion. It reviews basic calculations relative to flow and volume. It also addresses such topics as laminar/turbulent flow, viscosity, and Reynolds Number.
Pre-requisite(s): PTEC 1010, MATH 1300, INDT 1010, MATH 1300
Schedule type: Web
Lecture Hours: 0; Lab Hours: 9 Students work a minimum of 135 supervised hours in a local industrial setting. If an internship is not available, students complete an internal independent study.
Schedule type: Internship/Coop, Laboratory