Top controls engineers earn more than $200,000 annually and the median controls engineer in the US earns $130,000 annually.
By 2033, 3.8 million manufacturing jobs are expected to be created in the US and 1.9 million of those jobs are expected to go unfilled.
At Controls Engineering Academy, we teach you the skills that you need to land a high-paying, in demand job as a controls engineer in the manufacturing industry.
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Develop the practical skills that employers are looking for by building projects in your browser, no expensive hardware or software licenses required.
Video courses teach you the foundational knowledge and best practices that you need to work with Allen-Bradley PLCs.
Apply what you have learned by building projects directly in your browser using guided simulations.
Get direct access to instructors for support and advice and connect to peers in the community.
Our guided simulations build practical skills by letting you build projects in your browser. No hardware or software licenses required.
Follow our guided learning path to go from first principles to a competent automation professional who's able to program Logix 5000 PLCs in Studio 5000 Logix Designer, download projects to a Logix 5000 PLC, and to monitor and test logic running in the controller
Learn how to build your first project in Studio 5000 Logix Designer using browser based simulations - no hardware or software required.
Learn how to download and test a Studio 5000 Logix Designer project using browser based simulations - no hardware or software required.
Learn how to use Output Latch, Output Unlatch, and One-Shot instructions in Studio 5000 Logix Designer using browser-based simulations — no hardware or software license required.
Learn how to use Counter and Timer instructions in Studio 5000 Logix Designer using browser-based simulations — no hardware or software license required.
Learn how to use Math and Compare instructions in Studio 5000 Logix Designer using browser-based simulations — no hardware or software license required.
Learn how to work with a physical PLC by wiring it, assigning an IP address, flashing firmware, and downloading a project. Practice in a browser based simulation - no hardware or software required.
Controls Engineering Academy members get access to:
Full access to our growing collection of video courses on PLC programming. New content is added every week and existing content is updated regularly.
Run unlimited simulations to apply what you have learned to build projects in your browser. No hardware or software required.
Get direct access to instructors for questions and support and the chance to network with like-minded peers in the community.
Download the projects that you have built in the browser for your GitHub/portfolio to publicly showcase your PLC programming skills
Get access to our L5X viewer to open and explore projects without a Studio 5000 Logix Designer license. This is great for showing your work at interviews.
Every course comes with a certificate of completion to verify your ability as a PLC programmer.
Controls Engineering Academy is a learning platform for industrial automation.
Unlike other platforms, we teach controls engineering by getting you to build projects. This helps to build the practical skills that employers are looking for and that you need to excel as an automation professional.
As a Controls Engineering Academy member, you get full access to our library of video courses, unlimited use of simulations to practice what you have learned, instructor support, project files and an L5X viewer that allows you to open and explore projects, and certificates of completion.
You can cancel your Controls Engineering Academy membership whenever you want.
Our courses focus on programming Allen-Bradley Logix 5000 PLCs using Studio 5000 Logix Designer. We are working to expand our catalog to cover other topics like HMI development, SCADA development, drive configuration, motion control, safety engineering, and industrial networking. Members will gain access to those courses as they are published.
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