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Mechanical Maintenance Skills
ME129

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

3.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

None

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Basic mechanical skills required for the installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of mechanical industrial equipment as well as preventive maintenance techniques.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

AREA OR PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. Demonstrate understanding of basic refrigeration theory.
  2. Demonstrate understanding of gas heating theory.
  3. Demonstrate understanding of fluid flow and controls.
  4. Read and create electrical schematics and diagrams.
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of AC and DC electricity.
  6. Measure electrical units with testing equipment.
  7. Wire and operate electrical devices and equipment.
  8. Apply AC electrical and electronic troubleshooting techniques.
  9. Describe the sequence of operation of refrigeration, HVAC systems and miscellaneous accessories in commercial and residential applications.
  10. Service and repair HVAC equipment and manufacturing motor controls.
  11. Demonstrate the ability to dismantle and reconstruct mechanical equipment.
  12. Develop problem solving methods that increase productivity.
  13. Describe the impact of communication skills on customer and supervisor relationships.
  14. Describe the technician's role in production success.
  15. Describe the influence of work habits, such as attendance and attitudes, on professional success.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Evaluate and efficiently operate mechanical industrial equipment and systems.
    1. Read and interpret operating instructions of industrial equipment and systems.
    2. Operate equipment and systems.
    3. Evaluate operation by using tools to calculate and show system characteristics.
    4. Recommend practices to improve system operation.
  2. Integrate and compare concepts while operating machines and production equipment through knowledge of common controls applications.
    1. Operate equipment, etc. and measure data.
    2. Compare data to known operational standards for controls.
    3. Explain the basic principles of lubrication.
    4. Identify common industrial lubricants.
    5. Identify viscosity and consistency ratings.
    6. Monitor lubricant levels and conditions in industrial systems.
  3. Interpret and practice techniques associated with maintenance of different types of bearings.
    1. Read and interpret maintenance types associated with bearings.
    2. Read and interpret the basic principles of bearing operation.
    3. Identify common bearings and their housings.
    4. Monitor bearings for common causes of failure.
    5. Determine the common causes of bearings failure.
    6. Create a plan or method for extracting bearings and mounting bearings on shafts and in bores.
  4. Read, comprehend, and interpret basic principles of operation, maintenance, and repair of gear reducers.
    1. Read and comprehend the basic principles of operation, maintenance, and repair of gear reducers.
    2. Identify the basic parts of all reducers.
    3. Identify some of the common things that go wrong with gear reducers.
    4. Comprehend common practices and procedures for maintenance and repair of gear reducers.
    5. Comprehend what to do when replacing a seal.
    6. Comprehend what to do during an overhaul of industrial gearing.
    7. Identify and comprehend how gearing is selected and sized for different applications.
    8. Comprehend how to maintain gearing so it provides long, trouble-free performance.
    9. Interpret troubleshooting methods when gearing malfunctions.
    10. Comprehend and interpret how to adjust and replace gearing when it fails.
  5. Expediently compare, assess, and conclude if centrifugal pumps and valves are performing as intended.
    1. Identify and describes the basic principles of troubleshooting centrifugal pumps.
    2. Describe the function and operation of centrifugal pumps and valves.
    3. Operate centrifugal pumps and valves.
    4. Describe, analyze, and troubleshoot centrifugal pumps, valves and their components.
    5. Operate trainers/simulators of centrifugal pumps and valves.
  6. Comprehend, compare, and understand the basic principles of flexible power transmission drives and insure correct operation.
    1. Align sheaves and sprockets.
    2. Identify likely causes for the failure of belt drives and chain drives.
    3. Describe the basic principles of flexible power transmission drives.
    4. Interpret identification codes for V-belts.
    5. Describe the most modern techniques of belt care.
    6. Describe the nomenclature and construction of V-belts.
    7. Compare and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using V-belt drives.
  7. Evaluate, assess, and conclude if rigid and flexible couplings are aligned and maintained in a productive manner along with brakes and clutches.
    1. Read and interpret terminology that is associated with the most common types of coupling groups.
    2. Explain basic principles of mechanical couplings and their operation.
    3. Assess which coupling types are matched to different applications.
    4. Recognize common failure.
    5. Mount a coupling on a shaft.
    6. Align a coupling using a straight edge, feeler gauge and dial indicator.
    7. Read and interpret terminology that covers the basic principles of brakes and clutches commonly used in industry.
    8. Identify major types of brakes and clutches used in industry.
    9. Recognize operating conditions which may accelerate wear or lead to early brake or clutch failure.
    10. Adjust, maintain and troubleshoot the operation of brakes and clutches.
    11. Repair and replace brakes and clutches.
  8. Demonstrate proper organization and work habits in a maintenance environment.
    1. Identify sorting methods.
    2. Recognize the 5S method of organization.
    3. Prioritize what items would be kept or removed from work space.
    4. Prepare a potential 5S implementation process.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Participation 2. Homework 3. Review questions 4. Lab assignments 5. Drawing exercises 6. Wiring exercises 7. Performance assessments 8. Quizzes 9. Lab practical examinations 10. Examinations 11. Final examination

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 03/30/2023