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PROGRAMS / COURSE DESCRIPTION
ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
ELCT 86 OPTOELECTRONICS: LASERS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
Continuation of ELCT 85. This high technology
laboratory course emphasizes the principles and
applications of lasers as used in telecommunications,
consumer electronics, biomedical electronics, and
industry. Topics include: Principles of lasers, laser
optics, drive and modulation circuits, lasers and fiber
optics links, and audio video subcarrier modulation.
ELCT 87 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS: INDUSTRIAL
CONTROL SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND CIRCUITS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
This course is designed to provide the student an
opportunity to study a wide range of applications of
electronics found in industrial automation and robotics.
Topics include: operational amplifiers, linear integrated
circuits, generators and motors, control devices and
circuits, transducers, programmable logic controllers
(PLCs), PLC functions, ladder logic, programming and
applications.
ELCT 88 INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS: INDUSTRIAL
PROCESS CONTROL APPLICATIONS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite).
This course is designed to demonstrate a wide variety of
electronic control systems and circuits which are
controlled both manually and by use of the
programmable logic controller (PLC). Topics include:
motors and generators, control devices, timing control,
motor control, counting, position control,
servomechanisms, and applications and
troubleshooting.
ELCT 91 MICROPROCESSOR INTERFACING
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
This course is designed to give the student a practical
working knowledge of interfacing a microprocessor with
external sensing and activator systems. Topics include
microprocessor basics, buses, address decoding,
68HC1 I chip structure and internal features, instruction
timing, switch decoding, interfacing with displays and
adapters, I/O control techniques, data communications,
serial/parallel conversion, interfacing to RAM, EPROMs,
analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog devices.
ELCT 92 MICROPROCESSOR APPLICATIONS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
Continuation of Microprocessor Interfacing. This course
concentrates on specific applications related to
instrumentation and physical measurement. Activities
include constructing a microprocessor-controlled digital
multimeter (DMM), thermometer, light meter, and
photometer. The student will analyze how strain gauges
are used to measure force. The student will design and
construct a microprocessor/step motor interface and
control circuit.
ELCT 97 TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DIGITAL
COMMUNICATIONS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
This high technology laboratory course is designed to
provide a broad background in the use of digital devices
used in telephony, as well as in general digital
communications. Emphasis is placed on the telephone
industry, both wireless and fiber optics
telecommunications, and synthetic speech. Topics
include: digital communications, the subscriber
telephone, the central office, and digitized speech.
ELCT 99 TELECOMMUNICATIONS: MICROWAVE
COMMUNICATIONS
Units: 3.0 - 96-108 hours individualized instruction. (No
prerequisite)
This high technology laboratory course is designed to
provide a broad background in the use of microwave
transmitters, receivers, microwave components, and
horn antennas. Emphasis is placed on microwave
communication links. Topics include: voice, narrow
band, audio wideband, television, video, fiber optics
interfaces, pulse code modulation, and multiplexing
signals.
ELCT 110 ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER
TECHNOLOGY
Units: 3.0 - 48-54 hours lecture. CSU. (No prerequisite)
This course is designed to expose students to a wide
range of electronics and computer technologies in a
simplified, practical and non-mathematical hands-on
approach. Topics will include electronics and
computers applied to automotive and medical fields,
global positioning satellites (GPS), home entertainment
systems, surround sound and digital flat panel TVs,
digital music compression and recording, Internet,
wireless and wired networking in the house, computer
hardware setup and operation, how to use personal
computer (PC) applications, basic PC diagnostics,
upgrade and troubleshooting.
ELCT 131 D.C. CIRCUIT THEORY AND ANALYSIS
Units: 4.0 - 48-54 hours lecture and 48-54 hours
laboratory. CSU. Offered Fall, Spring. (No prerequisite)
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