Harper College

Program Overview

Program Requirements

Program Learning Outcomes

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.
Last Updated: 4/8/24