Electronics Technician

INTRODUCTION

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the manufacturing career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the manufacturing career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to DC circuits, AC circuits, solid-state devices, analog circuits, and digital circuits. Integrated into this content will be safe and efficient work practices, use of circuit diagrams and schematics, soldering, and laboratory practices. This program focuses on broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the skills required to enter a variety of fields within the Electronics industry.

Students are encouraged to contact the Engineering Technology Department for assistance in planning of the program of study.