Mechanic Career

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“You can run but, you can’t hide from math”
-Chris, An instructor at MATC

For my paper I decided to write about an instructor whom, after having for a year of classes, I’ve come to admire. Chris, is a full time instructor at MATC with the Manufacturing Department. He has been an instructor now for about two years, he is 46 years old. I chose Chris for multiple reasons, the most important being, he’s been a great role model and mentor to me since starting the Industrial Maintenance Mechanic program at MATC. Chris is HVAC certified with a two year technical diploma as an Industrial Technician. He also has an associate’s degree in photography. His hobbies include building cars, motorcycles, and taking care of his dogs. Chris’s profession, before becoming an instructor, was working for a consulting firm as an Instrumentation and Controls Technician.
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Along with having the mathematical foundation, an aptitude for hands on work is also necessary. For a career in Instrumentation and Controls, math is the foundation of the engineering field. Understanding the relationships between amps, voltage, and resistance is quite essential in this field of study. Chris for his professional career worked primarily with installing and servicing PLC’s (programmable logic controllers). A job that for me is completely what I hope to do, not only is the work rewarding but every job is different and requires a different angle for each task to be completed. With anything automation, knowing how to calculate power factor for buildings or how electricity is distributed through transformers is all a part of trigonometry and using conversions almost instinctively. Electricity is dangerous, doing anything without the critical information needed to do the work is