Instructor: David Senasak

BASIC ELECTRONICS I

A pre-employment laboratory. This course provides an opportunity for students to become familiar with the essential parts of AC/DC electronics and the field of digital electronics. Instruction includes building circuits using the breadboard and printed circuits, an introduction to digital circuits, microprocessor theory and logic, television systems and subsystems, entrepreneurship, safety, leadership training, and career opportunities. Not intended as a prerequisite for the tech prep course, Electronics I.

ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY I

The first year of this program includes the following two courses for articulated college credit. They are part of a Tech Prep coherent sequence of courses.

DIRECT CURRENT ELECTRONICS

This course covers the fundamental relationship of current, voltage, resistance, capacitance, inductance, and power through an understanding of Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws. The relationship between electricity and magnetism is discussed and network theorems are introduced as problem-solving tools.

DIGITAL CIRCUITS I

A course designed to provide core knowledge of digital circuits technology, including the theory and implementation of Booloean algebra functions. Karnaugh mapping and other tools of analysis are investigated for realization of various logic families, including diode logic (DL), resister-transistor logic (RT), transistor-transistor logic (TTL), metal-oxide semiconductor devices and others.

ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY II

The second year of this program will offer two courses for articulated college credit. They are part of a Tech Prep coherent sequence of courses.

ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRONICS

A course designed to provide instruction in the fundamentals of alternating current and circuits, including induction, capacity, reactors, impedance, resonance, tuned circuits, filters, and complex alternating current circuits, Emphasis is placed on the introductory skills in alternating current circuit analysis in which time-varying electrical signals, particularly the sine wave, as well as a thorough study of the capacitor, inductor and Q factors in circuits of varying frequencies.

SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY

This course begins with a bref history and description of vacuum tubes as a way to explore the ways transistors and related devices operate. Emphasis is placed on the introduction to semiconductor electronic devices; their operation and characteristics; and a familiarization of circuit schematic representations and actual circuit interconnection. Devices explored include vacuum tubes, transistors, latching devices, optical-electronic devices and the basic operations of each.

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

A pre-employment laboratory course designed to provide job-specific training for entry-level employment in the rapidly expanding computer maintenance field. Course includes electricity/electronic theory, computer systems, data communications, digital electronics, installation and setup of hardware, repair and maintenance, safety and career opportunities.