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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Electronics Certificate


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Additional information available on the Industrial Mechatronics Maintenance Technology Department website.

Training provided through the Industrial Mechatronics Maintenance Technology, Electronics Certificate program prepares students for a career in various entry-level positions in the field of electronics and other related technology industries including technical sales, manufacturing, and quality control. The certificate offers a broad range of electronics courses with emphasis on electronics-related analysis, operation, application, installation, and service. Coursework is designed to prepare students for the National Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) certificate exams. Because most courses have prerequisites, students should consult with the Program Coordinator prior to enrolling.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Electronics certificate program, students should be able to:

•   Apply electrical safety procedures in the field or the laboratory

•   Demonstrate proper soldering techniques and the safe use of standard hand tools and test instrumentation

•   Analyze, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical or electronic equipment with a minimum of supervision

•   Utilize technical and service manuals, to identify wiring, schematic, and printed circuit board diagrams

•   Summarize concepts of matter and energy; and describe how the concepts relate to the components that generate, carry or control electricity

•   Differentiate between basic electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic field relationships

•   Identify electrical quantities, symbols, units, and principles; and explain their interrelationships and application

•   Distinguish between series, parallel, and series-parallel DC, AC and RF networks

•   Construct single time constant circuits, single and three-phase steady state AC circuits and RLC resonant circuits

•   Design contemporary wireless communications system applications, operations, and analysis

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