Electronics Courses

Freshmen will learn procedures, practices, and policy relating to safety. Students will also learn basic prototyping of electronic circuits through activities such as creating printed circuit board layouts, and soldering. Students will become familiar with the use of hand and power tools. They will also become familiar with basic electronic measurement of voltage, current and resistance using instrumentation such as the multimeter, oscilloscope, and function generator. Students will also perform experiments related to DC and AC circuit schematic capture, layout, simulation, and analysis using software tools such as MultiSIM. 

The sophomores will become familiar with the physical and electrical properties of passive and semi-conductor components, and how to test and evaluate them. They will use various breadboard techniques to construct, troubleshoot, and analyze Analog Circuits such as power supplies, amplifiers, RC and LC oscillators, filters, and optical light sources and detectors. Students will learn how to use test equipment associated with these circuits, including curve tracer, AF/RF signal generators, and frequency counter. 

The juniors will learn how to recognize, test, and evaluate Digital Circuits. Students will learn about physical packaging of various types of integrated circuits, and about the electrical characteristics for various logic families such as TTL, low power TTL, Schottky TLL, CMOS, and ECL. Students will perform experiments implementing combinational logic circuits from schematic diagrams, truth tables, and Boolean algebra. Students will also build and evaluate sequential logic circuits using flip-flops. They will build, troubleshoot, and test computer circuits such as: counters, shift-registers, encoders, decoders, multiplexers, DE multiplexers, and arithmetic logic units. 

Seniors will have the opportunity to build semiconductor-based projects. The year will start with an exploration into diodes and diode testing. From there, students will have the opportunity to design and build their very own DC power supply. Next, students will explore transistor characteristics then use the gained knowledge to build a multi-stage amplifier. From there they will end the year with an exploration of operational amplifier analysis.