Industrial Maintenance Technology

Program Description:

The Industrial Maintenance Trades curriculum is a career-technical program designed to prepare students for entry-level employment as multi-skilled maintenance technicians. Industrial maintenance trade technicians are responsible for assembling, installing, and maintaining and repairing machinery used in the manufacturing or industrial environment.  Students receive basic instruction in a wide variety of areas including safety, machinery maintenance and troubleshooting/service, blueprint reading, basic welding and cutting operations, basic machining operations, fundamentals of piping and hydro-testing, and fundamentals of industrial electricity.

Career Certificate

• IMM 1113 - Industrial Maintenance Core and Safety 3 SH
• IMM 1153 - Electrical Industrial Maintenance I 3 SH
• IMM 1163 - Electrical Industrial Maintenance II 3 SH
• IMM 1214 - Introduction to Industrial Maintenance 4 SH
• IMM 1243 - Mechanical Maintenance I 3 SH
• IMM 1253 - Mechanical Maintenance II 3 SH
• Technical Electives 11 SH*

Technical Certificate (Industrial Maintenance Concentration)

• IMM 2214 - Advanced Electrical Industrial Maintenance 4 SH
• IMM 2224 - Advanced Mechanical Industrial Maintenance 4 SH
• IMM 2613 - Programmable Logic Controllers 3 SH
• Technical Elective(s) 4 SH*

Technical Certificate (Advanced Manufacturing Technician Concentration)

• IMM 2613 - Programmable Logic Controllers 3 SH
• IMM 2623 - Advanced Programmable Logic Controllers 3 SH
• IMM 2424 - Solid State Motor Control 4 SH
• Technical Elective(s) 4 SH*

Associate of Applied Science

• ENG 1113 - English Composition I 3 SH
• SPT 1113 - Public Speaking I 3 SH

• OR

• SPT 2173 - Interpersonal Communication 3 SH
• Social/Behavioral Science Elective 3 SH
• Humanities/Fine Arts Elective 3 SH
• Mathematics/Science Elective 3-4 SH 

• (MAT-1313 or higher OR any Laboratory Science)

**Completion Award: Associate of Applied Science in Occupational Education 60-61 SH

**Additional Graduation Requirements: Any student (first-time, transfer, and part-time) who begins at Hinds Fall 2007 and later will be required to take Orientation (LLS 1312 /RST 1312 ) to graduate from the College. Exception: Orientation credit (1-3 hrs) transferred to Hinds from another college will satisfy our orientation requirement.

An Assessment Prep review course(s) and Skills Assessment exam(s) are required to graduate from this program.