Building Automation Engineering Technology

Bachelor of Science Degree (B.S.)

About this program

From HVAC to elevators and lighting, nearly everything in modern buildings can be controlled with the tap of a button. Learn how to design, setup, and manage the technology that makes it all happen. With this dual-degree option, coursework begins with your area of focus and is paired with automation-specific training.

100+

Individual Work Stations

Employers Attended Recent Career Fair to Recruit Students from this Program

95%

Overall Placement

Careers

Building automation engineering technician
HVAC temperature controls project engineer
Controls-focused service technician
Automation design 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 and Electronic Control Systems (BBT344)
Building Automation Industry Internship (BBT310)
Building Control Networks I (BBT407)
Building Commissioning and Recommissioning (BBT412)
Building Automation Programming (BBT414)
Senior Seminar-Lecture (BBT495)
Integrated Building Operation and 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.

First Year Experience (FYE101)
Engineering, Technology, and Society (EET124)
Physics Survey (PHS103) or
Physics with Technological Applications (PHS114)
Exploration Electives (OEE)
Core Social Science Perspective (SSP)
Open Elective (OEA)
Science Elective (SCI) or
Science Elective with lab (SCL)
Core Global and 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, and Society (CSC124) or
College Algebra and Trigonometry I (MTH180)
English Composition I (ENL111)
Technical and Professional Communication (ENL201) or
English Composition II (ENL121)
College Algebra and Trigonometry II (MTH182) or
Statistics for STEM Fields with Computer Applications (MTH161)
Fundamentals of Speech (SPC101)

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Dual Degree

Select your area of focus

Students entering this bachelor degree as first semester freshman must declare a dual degree in one of the following associate's degrees:

Student Experience

"Penn College gives you the hands on experience, with all the resources that are needed to prepare you for a smooth transition heading into your career."

Crew Haefner

Building Automation Technology: Electronics Technology (Robotics & Automation Concentration)

Electrical Labs Transformed

Check out the recently revamped electrical labs filled with new equipment and individual work stations for students.

Building Automation

Skilled technicians and engineers who can design and repair automated systems are in high demand. With state-of-the-art-labs, a cutting-edge curriculum, small class sizes, hands-on learning, and awesome internships, it’s no surprise that 82% of our Building Automation students are hired before graduation day!