Industrial Automation Engineering

Overview

There is a global shortage of automation, instrumentation, and control engineers. Due to the rapid growth of new industries and technologies, industrial processes are becoming increasingly automated. Previously mechanized systems that required human intervention now use computerized control systems for higher accuracy, precision, and cost-effectiveness. 

Industrial automation is one of those expanding streams of engineering with an increasingly profound influence on most industries and enterprises. This Industrial Automation Engineering graduate certificate from Engineering Institute of Technology  will provide you with advanced skills in Industrial Automation. Students with a background in electrical, mechanical, instrumentation and control, or industrial computer systems engineering can benefit from this program.

The content has been carefully designed to provide you with relevant concepts and the tools required in today’s fast-moving work environment. Our Programmable Logic Controllers unit covers in-depth principles of operation of PLCs, networking, distributed controllers, and program control strategies. The unit on industrial process control systems combines the process identification and feedback control design with a broad understanding of the hardware, system architectures, and software techniques widely used to evaluate and implement complex control solutions.

Our industrial instrumentation unit identifies key features of widely used measurement techniques and transducers combined with microprocessor devices to create robust and reliable industrial instruments. Undertaking process engineering will enable you to evaluate and apply complex process calculations through the application of control principles.

Potential job roles include engineering and management positions in the following areas of expertise:

• Process control, commissioning and production management
• Plant, factory and building automation

• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Distributed Control Systems (DCSs) and SCADA

• Industrial design and consultation

• Supply chain management, quality assurance, and sales

• Operations, maintenance, field services, and technical support

• Controls, instrumentation, and robotics

• Industrial project management and business development