Electronics Engineering Technology — Allentown

1. Install, utilize and calibrate electronic equipment along with providing operating instructions and training.
2. Provide preventive maintenance and testing as needed for various types of equipment.
3. Evaluate, troubleshoot, and repair equipment to board or component level.
4. To provide industry with entry-level Electronic Engineering Technicians, Electromechanical Technicians, and Field Service Technicians who are well trained in their field, and who will require a minimum of supervisory instruction from their employers.

Career skills
The Graduate should have the ability to:

1. Work directly with engineering personnel.
2. Analyze electronic circuits and solve problems related to the circuit analysis.
3. Service and maintain equipment in the fields of telecommunications, computers, avionics, instrumentation, marine electronics and biomedical.
4. Prepare and write technical reports at the technician level.
5. Perform basic functions utilizing Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Objective:  To introduce the student to the study of AC & DC laws and principles.  DC topics included are resistors, voltage, current, power and Ohm’s Law.  Circuits include series circuits, parallel circuits, complex circuits and voltage dividers.  Resistor color code and use of a multimeter will also be covered.  Components covered under AC laws and principles include capacitors, inductors and transformers.  Circuit principles include time constants, reactance, impedance, phase angles, resonance and filter.

This semester will provide the student with practical and hands on experience in building, testing and troubleshooting DC and AC circuits.  The use and operation of test equipment, i.e. power supply, multimeter, oscilloscope will also be taught.  Students will also be introduced to the uses and features of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.

Students will be required to complete out-of-class assignments in each course.

Objective:  To familiarize the student with solid state devices and circuits.  Devices covered include diodes and transistors.  Circuits covered include power supplies, basic amplifiers and advanced similar circuits.  DC and AC analysis will also be covered.  Included is the study of operational amplifiers and basic logic gates and all of the various logic gate functions.  This course also includes the study of operational amplifier and 74XX series logic gates.  Circuits covered include inverting, non-inverting, integrators, differentiators, filters and all of the various logic gate functions.

Practical and hands on experience in building, testing and troubleshooting circuits containing semiconductors devices is provided.  Circuits include rectifiers and amplifiers.  Also included is experience in the use and operation of needed test equipment, i.e. logic pulser and logic probe, will be taught.  The use and operation of needed test equipment will also be taught.  Students will also be introduced to the uses and features of Microsoft PowerPoint.

Students will be required to complete out-of-class assignments in each course.

Objective:  This course is a study of digital concepts and devices.  Concepts include implementing logic circuits, multiplexing, counters and memories.  Logic devices include flip flops, counters, registers, memories, programmable logic devices, A to D conversion and D to A conversion.
Also included is a study of the Intel 8051 microcontroller family.  Topics include microprocessor architecture, instruction set, peripheral IC’s and programming techniques using an assembler and an editor.

Practical and hands on experience in building, testing and troubleshooting digital circuits.  The use and operation of needed test equipment, i.e. logic pulser and logic probe will be taught.  Practical and hands on experience in building, testing and troubleshooting microcontrollers and microcontroller controlled circuits.  Editing and changing programs will also be taught.  The use and operation of a logic analyzer will be covered.  Students will also be introduced to the uses and features of Microsoft Excel.

Students will be required to complete out-of-class assignments in each course.

Objective:  This course is a study of AM, FM and sideband transmission and reception.  Methods used to achieve these types of modulation will be discussed along with their characteristics and circuits.  A study of transmission lines and antennas will also be provided.  Topics also include microwaves, digital modulation techniques and fiber optics.  A study of television transmission and reception will be provided.

Practical and hands on experience in building, testing and troubleshooting AM and FM radio frequency circuits.  Emphasis will be placed on AM and FM transmission and reception.  The student will build an AM/FM receiver to enhance the learning process.  The use and operation of needed test equipment, i.e. spectrum analyzer, will also be taught.  Student will also experience hands on and practical training with circuits dealing with pulse techniques and fiber optics.  The use of needed test equipment, i.e. photometers, will also be taught.

Students will be required to complete out-of-class assignments in each course.