Building Automation Engineering Technology

Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology/Penn College Bachelor of Science Degree Articulation Agreement

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Thanks to the agreement between Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology (Stevens Tech) and Penn College, you can earn your associate's in Electrical Technology or Electro-Mechanical Technology at Stevens Tech and seamlessly transfer into the bachelor’s in Building Automation Engineering Technology at Penn College.

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Employers Attended Recent Career Fair to Recruit Students from this Program

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Courses

There are several options for completing your degree, depending on how many and which courses you've taken at Stevens Tech. Please see the articulation agreement for more information

Careers

  • Engineering specialist
  • Applications engineer
  • Project engineer
  • Field engineer
  • Systems specialist
  • Service technician/engineer
Courses

At Penn College, we believe your educational experience should go beyond specialized skills. Real-world ready means taking a broader approach that builds communication skills, inspires collaboration, and encourages exploration of arts, history, and science.

​​Specialization requires in-depth knowledge and high-level proficiency. Students learn and apply major-specific concepts, skills, and methods.

  • Directed Building Automation Technology Electives (BBT)
  • HVAC Elective (HVE) or
  • Electrical Electives (EEL)
  • Building Automation Industry (BBT209)
  • Direct Digital Control of HVACR Equipment (BBT304)
  • Electric, Pneumatic & Electronic Control Systems (BBT344)
  • Building Automation Industry Internship (BBT310)
  • Building Control Networks I (BBT407)
  • Building Commissioning & Recommissioning (BBT412)
  • Building Automation Programming (BBT414)
  • Senior Seminar-Lecture (BBT495)
  • Integrated Building Operation & Energy Management (BBT415)
  • Building Control Networks II (BBT417)
  • Senior Seminar-Lab (BBT496)

​Perspectives are points of view, offering a variety of ways of understanding, interacting, and influencing the world. Students identify, explain, and utilize the approaches used by academics and professionals to study, analyze, or understand problems, and offer solutions.

  • Physics Survey (PHS103) or
  • Physics with Technological Applications (PHS114)
  • Core Social Science Perspective (SSP)
  • Science Elective (SCI) or
  • Science Elective with lab (SCL)
  • Core Global & Cultural Diversity Perspective (CDP)
  • Core Historical Perspective (HIP)
  • Core Arts Perspective (ARP)

​​Foundations are the practical, intellectual, and social skills: communication, collaboration, critical and ethical thinking, quantitative thinking, and technological literacy that are crucial to every student at every stage of education and at every stage of life.

  • Information, Technology & Society (CSC124) or
  • Engineering, Technology & Society (EET124)
  • College Algebra & Trigonometry I (MTH181)
  • English Composition I (ENL111)
  • Technical & Professional Communication (ENL201) or
  • English Composition II (ENL121)
  • College Algebra & Trigonometry II (MTH183) or
  • Statistics for STEM Fields with Computer Applications (MTH161)
  • Fundamentals of Speech (SPC101)

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