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Electronics Technology

There are unlimited opportunities in the field of electronics. (Emphasis in industrial electronics). Electronics offers the basic tools that will open the door to wonders of the world that have yet to be dreamed.

In the classroom, students learn from lecture, video materials, and classroom discussion. One of the strong points of the program is that students will spend over half their time in a closely supervised lab doing troubleshooting, repair, and alignment of various electronic devices. Emphasis in industrial electronics.

First year: Basic electricity; resistors; Ohm’s Law; switches; series & parallel circuits; rheostats and potentiometers; voltage divider circuits; current dividers; direct-current meter; DC circuits; AC 1 fundamentals; network theorems; conductors and insulators; batteries; motor controls.

Second year: Inductance; Capacitance; Digital logic; Resonance; Filters; Electronic Devices & Circuits; Microcomputer Basics & repair; Transistor Amplifiers; Digital Electronics; Integrated Circuits; DOS; Basic Computer Programming; Robotics; Fiber Optic Training; Semiconductors; AC Fundamentals;

Prefer (but not required) students who have a C or better in Algebra and can read at 10th grade level.

Students may be eligible for articulated college credit through this program. For participating schools, click here.

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