Process Operator Certificate

Process Operator

Certificate (S)

The Process Operator curriculum prepares students for employment in industrial plants in the chemical, petroleum, polymer, and pharmaceutical industry. The chemical industry throughout the state and within the tri-state area has an urgent need for trained operators to monitor and optimize conditions for the production of large quantities of products. Graduates are readily employed by local plants at competitive salaries. The program provides a practical, hands-on education in the various aspects of plant operations such as maintaining safety, health and environmental standards, safe startup, shutdown, and troubleshooting procedures for various types of equipment, regulatory compliance, and basic preventive maintenance. Laboratory facilities include high tech mechanical equipment, modern instrument trainers, and computer process simulators.

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Maintain safety, health, and environmental standards in a chemical plant.
2. Handle, store, and transport chemical materials according to all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
3. Describe and apply quality systems in a simulated chemical process environment or a chemical plant.
4. Operate, monitor, control, and troubleshoot batch and continuous chemical processes.
5. Perform routine, predictive, and preventive maintenance and service to process equipment and instrumentation.
6. Use computers or computerized equipment for communications and chemical process control.
7. Apply mathematical and statistical concepts and principles to chemical process operations.
8. Analyze samples of raw materials, intermediates, and finished products in a simulated chemical process environment or chemical plant.

Graduation Requirements

Program/Major Concentration

CPO 100	Introduction to Chemical Process Operator Technician	3
CPO 125	Safety, Health & Environment	3
CPO 135	Chem Proc Tech-Equipment	3
CPO 151	Chemical Process Tech I-Systems	4
CPO 240	Quality	3
CPO 252	Chemical Process Tech II-Operations	4
CPO 253	Process Troubleshooting	4
CPO 260	Work Experience	4
ELC 101	Introduction to Instrumentation	3

Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)

Semester 1

CPO 100	Introduction to Chemical Process Operator Technician	3
CPO 135	Chem Proc Tech-Equipment	3
CPO 125	Safety, Health & Environment	3
CPO 151	Chemical Process Tech I-Systems	4

Semester 2

ELC 101	Introduction to Instrumentation	3
CPO 252	Chemical Process Tech II-Operations	4
CPO 240	Quality	3
CPO 253	Process Troubleshooting	4

Semester 3

CPO 260

Work Experience

4

To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 32 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on college readiness and the elective courses offered in your program major (if electives are a part of the program).

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