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RET 101: Intro to Wind Turbine Operations
1.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and terminology for how wind energy is captured and transformed into electrical power. Topics covered include nonmath mechanical physics, electricity and magnetism, fluid dynamics, and aerodynamics. These physical principles underlie the engineering of wind towers and electrical generators.
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RET 102: Alternative Energy Power Generation
1.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
Subjects that will be explored in this course are biodiesel, wind, solar cells, fuel cells, ocean wave, geothermal, hydrogen, connection to grid, (homeowner), electric vehicles, effect of politics on long term wind generation, other forms. Also research into old technologies as well as new will be explored. This course also discusses the power grid, local utilities and how power is generated and sold back to local utilities.
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RET 119: Programmable Controllers
3.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
The student will understand the operation of a variety of programmable controllers. The applications, operations, and programming of PLC's are the areas of study with the main emphasis on programming. (Computer and manual methods will be used to program PLC's.)
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RET 120: Basic Hydraulics
5.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
Students learn fundamental concepts of hydraulics, lubrication, and bearing technology with a focus on entering a profession in the wind power industry. Lab work includes learning and applying hydraulic concepts using an MB 400 Hydraulic System. Prerequisites: Math 60 and 65. Corequisite: Math 95
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RET 121: Wind Mechanical Systems
1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
This course focuses on learning the fundamentals of wind turbine construction. It emphasizes learning the different mechanical components that create a complete turbine from nuts and bolts to propellers, shafts, and bearings. It demonstrates the importance of lubrication in maintaining gears and other movable parts. Basic alignment is taught with regard to wind turbine structural stability. Basic classical mechanics physics, including aerodynamics, is used to demonstrate how wind energy is transmitted from propeller to electric generator. Prerequisites: Math 65, RET 120. Corequisite: Math 95.
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RET 121 - Wind Mechanical Systems
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RET 122: Wind Mechanical Systems
2.00 - 5.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
This course introduces the student to the process of constructing a wind turbine. Discussion includes construction techniques involving cranes and rigging, and mechanical alignment procedures. Students assemble a functioning scale model of a wind turbine. They apply what they learned in Wind Mechanics I about types and functions of levers, inclined planes, screws, wheels and axles, and other mechanisms used in wind turbine construction. Prerequisites: RET 120, RET 121.
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RET 141: Electric Motor Controls
3.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
This course teaches electrical circuits, electromagnetism, AC and DC electrical theory, industrial sensors, voltage and relays, motor controls, and power distribution systems. Corequisite: MTH 95, WR 115.
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RET 141 - Electric Motor Controls
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RET 223: Wind Mechanical Systems
3.00 - 5.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
This course focuses on methods used to evaluate land opportunities for developing wind farms, and managing a wind farm in both a field and an office setting. Students learn how to read and analyze topographic and wind maps as means to assessing the viability of developing wind farms on newly acquired land. They also learn MS Office software as wind farm management tools. Other topics covered include cranes and rigging methods, nondestructive materials testing, networking, and basic meteorological forecasting. Prerequisites: RET 121 and RET 122.
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SOC 204: General Sociology: Sociology in Everyday Life
4.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
Introduces sociological perspective and sociology as a scientific discipline. Focuses on individuals and groups and how they are shaped by their social locations (status, roles, race, class, sex, age, etc.), society's structures, stratification, institutions, groups and organizations and by such cultural processes as socialization and group interaction.
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SOC 205: General Sociology: Social Change & Social Institutions
4.00 Credits
Columbia Gorge Community College
Explores various social institutions (family, economy, polity, and religion) from a social change perspective. Various theories of social organization and social change are compared and contrasted.
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