Electronics Communications

Certificate of Completion #24210

In addition to courses in electronics fundamentals, the Electronics Communications certificate program encompasses the study of both wire-based and wireless forms of analog and digital communications systems. Among the topics covered are amplitude and frequency modulation, multiplexing, antennas, transmission lines, and radio-wave propagation, as well as microwave systems, including radar and satellite operations, and computer networks.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to read and analyze DC, AC and other active device schematics for voltage, current, impedance and power quantities, and compare them to measured values.
• Students will demonstrate proper use of electronic test equipment and associate measurement results with circuit behaviors in the laboratory.
• Students will calculate and measure various modulation characteristics using a variety of modulation principles.
• Students will understand microwave components and circuits, transmission lines, Smith Charts, impedance matching, antenna characteristics, wave propagation, frequency analysis, and measurement techniques.
• Students will be prepared to take the National Association of Radio and Telecommunications Engineers license exam.
• Students will use these results of both empirical and calculated unknown electrical parameters to assess or troubleshoot faults in circuit and system operation.
• Students will understand Standards, terminology, design, implementation, and troubleshooting techniques as they relate to both local and wide area networks.

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