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Certificate of Achievement in Heavy Equipment Operator Technician

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Total Units: 31

Term 1

15 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	AB 20: Careers in Agriculture, Environmental Science and Natural Resources	1.00
Unit(s): 1.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 17.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 34.00 Total Course Hours: 51.00 This course is a study of the agriculture, environmental science and natural resources industries with a focus on career opportunities, self evaluation, and skills necessary for successful job procurement. Topics include job trends, resumes and cover letters, interviewing skills, and the types of careers available in agriculture, environmental science, and natural resources.
	AET 26: Basic Surveying	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 68.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 This is a basic surveying course. Topics will include selection, care and use of tapes and levels; field observations, note taking and office computations; use of surveying instruments and equipment for land measurement and mapping; practice in differential, profile, and contour leveling; building foundation layout; horizontal angles; cut and fill measurements and calculations for land grading. Laser and Global Positioning System (GPS) technology will be introduced at the basic level.
	AET 30: Tractors and Crawlers	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 68.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 This course covers design principles, selection, maintenance, adjustment, and safe operation of wheel and crawler type tractors used in agriculture and in the construction industry. (C-ID AG-MA 108L).
	AET 38: Diesel Engines and Machine Systems	4.00
Unit(s): 4.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 204.00 This course presents the theory, operating principles, application, component parts, support systems, maintenance, adjustment, and repair of Diesel engines and related systems used on modern trucks and heavy equipment used in the construction and agricultural industries. The related systems include electrical, power train, hydraulic, and Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems.
	WLD 20: Beginning Welding	4.00
Unit(s): 4.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 17.00 hours Lecture / 153.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 34.00 Total Course Hours: 204.00 This course includes oxyacetylene welding (OAW), oxyacetylene cutting (OFC-A) and shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) processes, in the flat and horizontal positions on various joint details. It will also include safety procedures, electrode identification, joint fit-up and alignment, base metal preparation, weld quality, beads and fillet welds, with focus on theory and practice. All welds will meet the American Welding Society (AWS) qualification standards.

Term 2

16 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	AET 34: Farm Machinery	3.00
Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 42.50 hours Lecture / 25.50 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 85.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 This course involves the design principles, uses, maintenance, adjustment, calibration, and repair of machinery used in California agriculture. Emphasis is placed on primary and secondary tillage, planting, chemical application, and harvesting equipment. Selection and operation of both machinery and tractors will be practiced. Safety will be stressed throughout.
	AET 35: Heavy Equipment Methods	3.00	Corequisite: AET 36
Corequisite(s): AET 36 Unit(s): 3.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Out of Class Hours: 102.00 Total Course Hours: 153.00 This course will examine construction regulations, erosion control, drainage, environmental mitigations, soils and aggregates, technical report writing, interpreting blueprints and site plans, applied mathematical calculations, management skills, fleet management practices, project organization, and entrepreneurship.
	AET 36: Heavy Equipment Operation	6.00	Corequisite: AET 35
Corequisite(s): AET 35 Unit(s): 6.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 204.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 68.00 Total Course Hours: 306.00 This course covers selection, operation, service, and adjustment of heavy equipment used in agriculture and construction industries. Also covered are measurement and techniques used in preparing roads, building sites, and other projects as may be required in the field using heavy equipment.
	AET 43: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems	2.00
Unit(s): 2.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 17.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 34.00 Total Course Hours: 102.00 This course is an introduction to the theory, operating principles, application, graphical symbols, component parts, systems, maintenance, adjustment, and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic systems used on modern trucks and heavy equipment used in the construction and agricultural industries.
	AET 44: Grade Setting	2.00
Unit(s): 2.00 Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 17.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Out of Class Hours: 34.00 Total Course Hours: 102.00 This course will cover reading site plans, interpreting grade stakes, and setting grades to ensure that earth-moving work meets specifications, using both manual and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) methods.