Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - Understand the fundamentals of automation and control methods. - Apply their knowledge and understanding to identify, formulate and solve problems related to industrial automation using established methods. - Apply their knowledge to develop and carry out the design of industrial automation systems that meet specific requirements. - Design and perform experiments, interpret data and draw conclusions. - Have technical and laboratory skills. - Select and use appropriate equipment, tools and methods. - Combine theory and practice to solve industrial automation problems. - Integrate the different equipment involved in an automated industrial process. - Ability for teamwork.

1. Introduction to discrete event systems. 2. Modeling of discrete event systems. State diagrams. Functional Charts. 3. Introduction to the technologies used in automation. 4. Programming of automatons. 5. Introduction to SCADA systems. 6. Introduction to industrial communications. Field buses (ProfiBus, CanOpen, etc.).

THEORETICAL PRACTICAL CLASSES. Knowledge and concepts students must acquire. Receive course notes and will have basic reference texts. Students partake in exercises to resolve practical problems. TUTORING SESSIONS. Individualized attendance (individual tutoring) or in-group (group tutoring) for students with a teacher. Subjects with 6 credits have 4 hours of tutoring/ 100% on- site attendance. STUDENT INDIVIDUAL WORK OR GROUP WORK. Subjects with 6 credits have 98 hours/0% on-site. WORKSHOPS AND LABORATORY SESSIONS. Subjects with 3 credits have 4 hours with 100% on-site instruction. Subjects with 6 credits have 8 hours/100% on-site instruction.