MATC 2026-27 Catalog

DEGREE/DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

MEET – Meeting and Event Planning (Department 109) MEET-108 Credits:2 Events Budget and Finance Management Establishing a realistic and sound budget is vital to creation of successful meetings. This course examines the steps in developing a meeting budget. Students learn techniques for projecting and managing budgets, including per person methodology, return on investment and break even analysis. Prerequisite(s): Completion of or currently enrolled in MEET-180. MEET-151 Credits:3 Intro to Hospitality/Tourism This course introduces the various components of the travel services industry, including basic terminologies and tourism vocabulary. The course provides a general orientation to the program and a survey of travel career opportunities. Students learn to integrate current knowledge with ongoing events and trends of the travel and tourism industry. MEET-152 Credits:3 Fundamentals of Green Meetings This course provides students with a solid foundation of what is a green meeting, commonly used terminology and how to execute a socially responsible and environmentally responsible meeting or event. Through a green lens, students will explore core strategies and principles in planning a green meeting. Further focus includes green tools and resources available to plan a green meeting. MEET-178 Credits:3 Meeting and Convention Planning This course introduces students to the meetings industry, including promotional activities, negotiating for meeting services, convention market salesmanship, customer service and convention servicing. Course content includes a study of the planning, marketing, execution and follow-up of meetings, conferences, conventions and package promotions. Facilities and event planning, as well as convention methods and techniques, are explored in depth. Prerequisite(s): Complete MEET-180 and MEET-181. MEET-180 Credits:3 Registration and Housing Logistics This course enables the students to identify and develop tools that allow attendees to have a seamless meeting experience. One critical tool the students will learn in this course is to design a functional registration process. Students will also develop a housing process by creating rooming lists, coordinating the housing logistics and managing sleeping guest rooms from blocks. Prerequisite(s): Complete MEET-151. Completion of or currently enrolled in MEET-181.

General mathematical and algebraic skills will be reinforced while being introduced to circuits using Ohm’s law and associated principles. Hands-on circuit building exercises, basic electronic instruments and report writing will be emphasized in the lab. Portions of this course are online. A computer with a 64-bit operating system and reliable internet are required to complete this course. Prerequisite(s): Complete Manufacturing DC/AC Circuits 2 This course, along with MFGMNT-113, helps complete the sequence for students requiring DC and AC electronics in manufacturing technology programs while enhancing their mathematical skills. Emphasis will include more complex circuits with the introduction and analysis of AC circuits. Students will perform laboratory experiments and prepare technical reports. Prerequisite(s): Complete ADVMFG-113 or MFGMNT-113. MFGMNT-121 Credits:2 Vision and Smart Sensors In this course, learners will utilize 2D cameras, lighting systems and smart sensors in machine applications to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control and robot guidance. Learner will use vision systems to sort good and bad parts; identify, position and orient objects images for robot guidance and orientation using edge detection; blob detection; pattern recognition; image acquisition; and bar code and QR code recognition. Learners will integrate smart sensors into PLC machine applications. Upon completion of this course, learners will apply camera and smart sensors into a machine process application. MFGMNT-135 Credits:4 Digital Electronics This is an introductory course in digital logic devices and circuits. Students learn the basic logic functions, sequential and synchronous logic circuitry, general applications, and troubleshooting techniques through hands-on lab work. Students will learn interfacing techniques to integrate with manufacturing equipment. The computer will be used to generate circuit simulations and technical reports. MFGMNT-140 Credits:3 PLC System Basics This course is a study of programmable logic controllers (PLC) used in advanced manufacturing systems. The history and principles of operation and the installation, programming and maintenance of the programmable logic controllers are covered in lecture. Basic programming instructions are covered in lecture and lab, and downloaded and simulated on PLC workstations. Portions of this course are online. Reliable internet and a computer with a 64-bit operating system are required. You will not be able to complete the coursework on a phone. Prerequisite(s): Complete MFGMNT-114 or ADVMFG-114. MATH-115. MFGMNT-114 Credits:3

MEET-181 Credits:3 Exposition/Special Event Management This course focuses on the planning of special events of all types including expositions, meetings, conventions, trade shows, retail events, festivals and nonpro fi t events in the hospitality and event management industry. Emphasis is placed on the methodology of event planning including theme setting, building the target sponsorship, contracts, negotiations, site selections, planning event speci fi cations and working with budgets. Prerequisite(s): Complete MEET-151. MEET-184 Credits:3 Risk Management and Crisis Planning This course focuses on the art and science of negotiations, crisis planning and risk management, and contract and legal issues in the meetings industry. Students learn to identify issues that are negotiable, the steps in the negotiation process and commonly used negotiation techniques. The course also focuses on basic contract provisions and key clauses of a facility contract, as well as the unique elements and differences of hotel and convention center contracts. Prerequisite(s): Complete MEET-180. MFGMNT – Manufacturing Maintenance (Department 462) MFGMNT-101 Credits:2 Introduction to Robotics In this course, learners are introduced to programming techniques for industrial robots. The learner examines teach pendant programming, including I/O, routines, decision-making, six frames of positional operation and robot communication. Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to operate and program industrial robots commonly used in Industry 4.0. Portions of this course are online. A computer with a 64-bit operating system and reliable internet are required to complete this course. MFGMNT-102 Credits:3 Motor Controls for Technicians This course examines the fundamentals of electric motors and motor control. Students will learn to recognize and draw basic symbols, use the language of motor control, and apply these in industry adopted formats. Students will also learn to draw and read ladder and wiring diagrams, and be introduced to the logic used in motor control. Learners will apply this logic to correctly interpret, install, service, and wire control circuits. Wiring of panels, machines, and systems will also be examined. Portions of this course are on-line. A computer with a 64-bit operating system and reliable internet is required to complete this course. MFGMNT-113 Credits:3 Manufacturing DC/AC Circuits 1 This course is designed for students interested in advanced manufacturing while enhancing their basic skills in electronics and mathematics.

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