Engineering
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Engineering Department
engineering@yvcc.edu
509-574-6810
Engineering Program
Engineering is the practical application of math and science to solve problems. Engineers are problem-solvers who make things work faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Technologies developed by engineers improve the ways that we live, communicate, work, travel, stay healthy, and entertain ourselves. From computer chips to cellphones and buildings to automobiles, engineering makes every aspect of our modern life possible.
YVC Engineering offers the following degrees and certificates:
- AAS in Civil Engineering Technology
- AAS in Land Survey and Construction Design Technology
- AS Track 2 – Engineering Transfer degree
- Engineering Technology Certificate
- CAD Certificate
- Land Survey Certificate
Degrees
Civil Engineering Technology, AAS
This degree is designed for students planning to enter the engineering profession at the technician level. The program is designed with input from a local engineering advisory board in order to best meet the needs of community employers. Technicians at YVC learn specialized skills that include plan-reading, surveying, computer drafting, materials testing, estimating, scheduling, and using engineering design software. Promising careers exist with municipal, state, and federal agencies, engineering and construction firms, public utilities, and local manufacturers.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Apply the knowledge of CAD (computer aided design) to formulate or design engineering systems.
- Apply general and engineering-specific concepts and methodologies to identify, analyze, and solve engineering problems.
- Apply the knowledge of basic survey concepts to measure, analyze and solve survey problems.
- Demonstrate knowledge, comprehension and application of engineering concepts and insights as well as employ scientific or mathematical inquiry.
Land Survey & Construction Design Technology, AAS
Students enrolled in the Land Survey & Construction Design Technology program are trained in a broad base of engineering services such as structural systems, CAD, geo-technology, parametric software, building code, construction management and estimating, surveying sciences, and construction engineering leading to an Associate of Applied Science degree in Land Survey & Construction Design Technology. This degree will provide students with professional-level skills on AutoCAD. They will also learn many skills essential to the light construction trade.
Many CAD courses use a drawing studio format, and students create portfolios of their work as a basic course or program goal. With this degree, students will be highly competitive with respect to job placement in the construction design field.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Apply the knowledge of CAD (computer aided design) to formulate or design engineering systems.
- Apply general and engineering-specific concepts and methodologies to identify, analyze, and solve engineering problems.
- Apply the knowledge of advance survey concepts to measure, analyze and solve complex survey problems.
- Demonstrate knowledge, comprehension and application of engineering concepts and insights as well as employ scientific or mathematical inquiry.
Engineering Transfer Track 2, AS-T T2
This degree is for students who are interested in pursuing a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science (information technology), or physics (Track 2) at a four-year institution.
This degree is appropriate for a student who has a strong commitment to majoring in one of the sciences and who is ready to enter MATH& 151: Calculus I and ENGL& 101. Completion of this degree will prepare the transfer student for upper division study in the sciences; however, it does not guarantee admission to the major. Course sequences should be completed at one institution. For example, the physics sequence or chemistry sequence should be completed at one school.
Advising is a critical element for students pursuing the associate in science - transfer degree in order to determine exactly which courses are included in each of the categories. Students are responsible for checking specific requirements of the four-year institution.
Note: Special advising is required for this degree.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Humanities: students will create, examine, interpret, and/or qualitatively evaluate products of human expression through the arts, language, literature, philosophy, culture, and/or religion.
- Natural Sciences: Students will demonstrate knowledge, comprehension and application of scientific concepts and insights as well as employ scientific or mathematical inquiry.
- Quantitative Reasoning: Students will use mathematical skills or symbolic reasoning to analyze and interpret quantitative information and draw conclusions.
- Social Sciences: Students will analyze human behaviors and the products and impacts of those behaviors using social science methodologies and theoretical approaches.
- Written Communication: Students will use a process to make conscious rhetorical choices to compose texts in varying situations, modalities, and genres.
Certificates
Engineering Technology Certificate
Are you creative and good with technology? Engineering Technology could be the right career for you.
In this program, you’ll develop the critical thinking and computer drafting skills needed to create manufacturing drawings for everything from basic residential building to complex commercial building designs.
Whether you want to work as a technician in drafting, design or sales, this program prepares you to join engineering teams in the manufacturing, testing, aerospace and construction industries.
CAD Certificate
The CAD Technology Certificate is designed to provide students with the skills and technical knowledge requested by employers using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. This an 18 credit certificate.
Land Surveying Certificate
The Land Survey certificate is designed to provide the students with skills in surveying and offer opportunities as a survey tech in the industry. This is a short certificate of 18 credits. Of these 11 credits are field work with a survey professional.
Department Contacts
| Name | Job Title | Phone | Office Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rajkumar Raj | Department Chair | rraj@yvcc.edu | 509.574.4752 | Yakima Campus Engineering & Physics Center Building 34, Room 119 |
| Lori Ferguson | Program Coordinator | engineering@yvcc.edu | 509.574.6810 | Yakima Campus Technology Complex Building 24, Room 100H Phone: 509.574.6810 |