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                 A pre-employment training program for the American Centrifuge Facility, a Division of United States Enrichment Corporation Inc., is being offered through Shawnee State University from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. beginning Wednesday, Sept. 15.
The course consists of two components: Electrical and Control, and Fluids and Heat Transfer. In the first component, successful students will be competent in the fundamental principles of DC and AC electricity, motors, generators, transformers and power distribution. An introduction to electronics with emphasis on process control measurement and applications including programmable logic controllers will be included.
In the second component, the properties of fluids, fluid flow, fluid mechanics and applications of basic thermodynamics will be covered. The course includes an exit exam and a report of each student’s progress. This is an open-enrollment, non-college credit, 60-hour course offered by Shawnee State University at the OSU South Centers at Piketon. The course will meet one evening per week for four hours for 15 weeks. To qualify, students must have college algebra and high school general science.
Students will be assigned home work of two or three problems per class to be handed in at the beginning of the following class. Solutions to homework problems will be given out and discussed after the homework is collected. A one-hour exit exam will be given after the Electrical and Control component and after the Fluids and Heat Transfer component.
Instruction will be of the lecture type with questions and discussions encouraged. Relevant real-world industrial examples will be used throughout the course.
Ken Warfield, associate professor of Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology at Shawnee State University, is the instructor for the course. He has 26 years of teaching experience and more than 11 years of industrial experience in the electrical, mechanical, industrial controls, water and wastewater treatment fields. Warfield designed the SSU Environmental Engineering Technology degree program and has led the Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology through many upgrades over the years.
Enrollment is limited to 30 in the class and costs $935 per person. The registration deadline is September 10. For more information or to register, call SSU’s University Outreach Services at (740) 351-3274 or toll free (866) 672-8778.