Engineering Technology - Hopkinsville Community College

Engineering Technology from Hopkinsville Community College is a Campus Associate Engineering General degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. If you like to use math, science, and engineering to focus on practical solutions to technical problems, this program may be for you. We can provide the knowledge and skills for jobs in a variety of growing, complex fields such as engineering, robotics and automation, communications and instrumentation. Jobs range from production-line work using automatic test equipment to individual field service work such as onsite repair of a computer installation. You might work as assistant to an engineer, liaison between an engineer and craftsman, or plant maintenance specialist. Skills you should have include good eyesight, color discrimination, finger dexterity, patience, extended concentration, and attention to detail. A background in math through trigonometry, high school physics, and general science are helpful. Employment Opportunities Graduates have developed rewarding careers as engineering technicians, electronics technicians, automation and instrumentation specialists, and computer technicians. These graduates work throughout the region at manufacturing facilities, businesses, power plants and hospitals. They install high tech equipment, program programmable logic controllers (PLCs), calibrate instrumentation and maintain computers. View more details on Hopkinsville Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Engineering General courses.