Lead the future of manufacturing at Austin Peay State University.
Join a program that gives you the high tech skill necessary to meet the workforce needs of advanced manufacturing in our community today. An engineering tech degree gives students the unique combination of technical skill for practical application along with the problem-solving ability of engineering. Offering pathways from associates to master's, APSU will help you learn marketable skills in a variety of processes to enter the dynamic and innovative world of high-tech manufacturing.
Why choose Engineering Technology at Austin Peay?
Austin Peay State University offers many options allowing students to customize their education and develop specific skills. We offer several areas of focus from associate to master's degree.
Our program prepares students to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers engaged in developing, manufacturing and testing vehicles.
This program helps students prepare for a career managing the conversion of engineering and architectural plans from ideas to reality.
Electronics provides extensive technical training and prepares graduates for advance industrial work in a variety of fields.
Mechatronics combines many disciplines to create a person who can do electrical, mechanical and computer work. Austin Peay recently added a $300,000 mechatronics learning system to its lab.
Our program prepares students to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers engaged in developing, manufacturing and testing vehicles.
This program helps students prepare for a career managing the conversion of engineering and architectural plans from ideas to reality.
Austin Peay develops students in this program for a career designing, applying, installing, manufacturing, operating and maintaining electrical or electronic systems.
Students in this field focus on the design and operation of integrated systems, including computer networks, robots, machine tools and materials-handling equipment.
Mechanical engineering technicians design, develop, test and manufacture mechanical devices such as tools, engines and machines. They apply engineering with technological developments.
Mechatronics combines many disciplines to create a person who can do electrical, mechanical and computer work. Austin Peay recently added a $300,000 mechatronics learning system to its lab.
Engineering Physics is the interdisciplinary study of physics, mathematics, and engineering with a particular emphasis on developing advanced techniques to solve complex, real-world problems.
The Engineering Technology program is designed to provide the advanced knowledge and skills needed by individuals in technological careers. The curriculum is built on a foundation of theoretical and applied concepts related to practical problems in the industry.
State-of-the-art labs allow students to learn on new and high tech equipment that is similar or identical to what they'll use on the job in advanced manufacturing facilities.
Austin Peay offers a full pathway of to careers in engineering technology. Seeking a more hands-on career working directly with advanced manufacturing equipment? Finish in two years with an associates degree. A four-year bachelor's degree allows students to focus on problem solving and working in an engineering role. Want to become a leader or manager within a manufacturing facility? Complement your undergraduate degree with our master’s program to give you the education often required to lead.
There are many career outcomes for advanced manufacturing graduates.
There are numerous opportunities available for graduates of engineering tech programs. Because engineering tech provides more hand-on application of engineering, many students find positions as technicians or manufacturing engineers. Often graduates who begin working for manufacturing companies progress into position of ever increasing responsibility and often become leaders within those organizations.
- Controls Engineer
- Applications Engineer
- Product Design Engineer
- Electro-hydraulic Engineer
- Project Manager
- Test Engineer
- Industrial Engineer
- Management Trainee
- Applications Engineer
- Reliability Engineer
- Robotics Engineer
- Mechatronics Engineer
- Controls Design Engineer
- Quality Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Field Service Engineer
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