MTRE 3720: Introduction to PLCs and Microcontrollers

2 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: ((CSE 1322 and CSE 1322L) or MTRE 2710) and EE 2501 and Engineering Standing
Concurrent: MATH 3260 and (EE 2301 or EE 2305 or MTRE 2110 or CS 3503)
This course covers semiconductor electronics as the basic foundation. Further topics covered are Industry, automation, control, a basic sensing scheme, the PLC software environment, and the creation of RLL diagrams. Additionally, detailed communication protocols and interfaces with the AVR microcontroller will be carried out.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Program microcontroller input and output in C.
Program microcontroller specialized hardware.
Understand the organization of hardware in the PLC, sequence and logic control.
Design RLL Diagram for simple industrial logic control problems.
Develop a sequence control program for a Finite State Machine model.