Earn an Associate Degree in Industrial Technology
Do you enjoy working with your hands and learning by doing? Take your curiosity about troubleshooting and process oversight and enter the manufacturing field with an industrial technology associate degree from Aims. The U.S. advanced manufacturing sector is growing. Over the next decade, there will be a greater need for skilled workers familiar with process automation, industrial robotics and other high-tech skills.
Industrial technology is a field that applies automation to support manufacturing. Automating processes to make them more efficient allows a company to offer high-quality products at a low cost. With an industrial technology degree from Aims, you can start a career in manufacturing. Potential roles include planning and coordinating production activities to ensure they run smoothly and stay on budget, overseeing departments or making decisions to increase productivity.
With day and night classes available, Aims offers flexibility to get your education on a timeline that suits you best. If you’re a high school student, you can start the industrial technology degree program while earning dual high school and college credit. If you’re an incoming college freshman, you can either earn a two-year industrial technology associate degree and enter the workforce or transfer to a four-year university to earn a bachelor’s degree.