Micro-Credentials
Micro-credentials are an aggregate of courses built around a competency that that can be taken as a standalone program or stacked to earn an academic degree or certificate. Micro-credentials are designed to provide specific workforce-ready skills in an accelerated timeframe. The micro-credential career pathway is a program for new students, professionals, military, and others seeking to up-skill their career paths.
Micro-credential Benefits
- Provide short-term, immediate competency skills.
- Demonstrate to employers about specific skills and competencies learned.
- Supplement an existing degree program with complementary skill sets.
- Ladder from a stand-alone micro-credential to an academic degree (associate or bachelor's).
Micro-credential Program: The micro-credential program leverages the existing proven technical programs at 17勛圖 and is focused on the marine, engineering, geospatial, survey and unmanned systems technologies. Outlined below are the seven micro-credentials being offered and their respective competencies and courses.
Micro-Credential |
Competency |
Courses |
|---|---|---|
|
Electrical Systems & Troubleshooting |
Electronics |
Electrical studies I |
|
Microcontroller Applications |
Programing |
Microcontroller programming |
|
PLC Applications |
Programmable logic controllers (PLC's) |
Industrial Controls |
|
Machining Fundamentals |
Fundamentals of machining operations |
Print Reading and Sketching |
|
Industrial Maintenance |
Electronics, fluid power and PLC's |
Electrical Studies I |
|
Marine Data Processing |
Remote Sensing, Sonar Systems & Data Processing |
Remote Sensing and Sensors |
|
Marine Geospatial Data Management |
Data processing and management in the marine environment |
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). |
|
ROV Systems & Troubleshooting |
Marine Technology Systems |
Great Lakes Research Technologies |
|
Advanced Marine Platforms |
Marine Technology Systems |
Great Lakes Research Technologies |
|
UAS Technician |
Unmanned Aerial Systems |
Remote Pilot Flight |
|
Survey Fundamentals |
Survey fundamentals and applications |
Fundamentals of Surveying |