Students who successfully complete this program will be able to:
- apply electrical safety procedures in the field or the laboratory.
- demonstrate effective soldering techniques and safely use standard hand tools and
test instrumentation to prototype, analyze, maintain, troubleshoot and repair electrical
or electronic equipment with a minimum of supervision.
- read technical and service manuals containing wiring, schematic and printed circuit
board diagrams.
- understand concepts of matter and energy, and how they relate to the components that
generate, carry or control electricity.
- understand basic electric, magnetic and electromagnetic field relationships.
- understand electrical quantities, symbols, units, laws and principles, and their interrelationships
and application.
- analyze series, parallel and series-parallel DC, AC and RF networks.
- analyze single time constant circuits, single and three-phase steady state AC circuits,
filters and RLC resonant circuits.
- understand semiconductor device applications, operation and fabrication, and analyze
analog and digital circuits employing diodes, transistors, integrated circuits and
displays.
- understand contemporary wireless communications system applications, operation and
analysis.