ELECTRICAL SAFETY,
TERMINOLOGY & MEASUREMENTS
.5cr
Electrical safety; atomic structure, electron drift
and electric current; the use of multimeters for
measurement of voltage, current power; color code;
basic circuit analysis.
WAVE ANALYSIS, BASIC LOGIC AND
BREADBOARDING
.5cr
Waveforms and Time
Measurement (Oscilloscope Use); Number Systems
(Conversion from one to another); Breadboarding
Techniques for experimenting with digital electronic
circuits; basic logic gates, timers, counters,
sequencers and memory circuits.
DIRECT CURRENT (DC) FUNDAMENTALS
- 1cr
Analysis of DC series
resistive circuits, parallel resistive circuits,
series-parallel circuits, linear and non-linear
resistive devices, voltage divider circuits,
Wheatstone Bridge circuit, primary and secondary
cells, methods of analysis-DC, network theorems,
introduction to PSpice, inductance and DC,
capacitance and DC.
DIGITAL LOGIC - 1cr
Number Systems, Switch
Logic, Diode Logic, Diode Transistor Logic (DTL),
Transistor Transistor Logic (TTL), Logic Expressions
and Simplification, Boolean Algebra, Exclusive - OR
and Exclusive-NOR gates, Encoder and Decoder
Circuits, Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Circuits,
Magnitude Comparator Circuits, Binary Full Adder
Circuits, S-R (Set-Reset) Latch Circuits, D-Type
Flip-Flop Circuits, J-K Flip-Flop Circuits, Shift
Register circuits, Binary counter Circuits.
ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC)
FUNDAMENTALS - 1cr
Alternating waveforms and
values and AC circuit analysis, basic AC Resistive
Circuits, the effects of capacitance and inductance
on AC circuits, resistive-capacitive (RC) AC
circuits, resistive-inductive (RL) AC circuits,
Tuned (RLC) AC circuits, filter circuits,
characteristics of transformers.
SEMICONDUCTOR FUNDAMENTALS - 1cr
The basic nature of semiconductors, the
characteristics of a junction diode, half-wave
rectifier circuits, Bridge (full- wave) rectifier
circuits, characteristics of Bipolar-Junction
transistors, the Transistor as a Switch, Transistor
Amplifiers, Darlington Pair Emitter follower,
Complementary PNP/NPN Pair, Differential Amplifiers,
Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET)
Characteristics, JFET Common source Amplifiers.
OPERATIONAL
AMPLIFIERS - 1 cr
Operational Amplifier characteristics, Comparators,
Inverting Amp-DC operation, Inverting Amp-AC
operation. Non-Inverting Amplifier, Summing
Amplifiers.
POWER DEVICES - 1 cr
Power Transistor-BJT, Power MOSFET, (SCR) Silicon
Control Rectifier Characteristics, Unijunction
Transistor-UJT, Triacs and Diac Characteristics,
Varactor Diodes, Control Circuits..
ELECTIVES
ADVANCED BREADBOARDING - .5cr
Analog to digital and
digital to analog conversion, universal asynchronous
receiver-transmitter (UART) circuits, digital
projects.
ALTERNATING CURRENT NETWORK
ANALYSIS - .5cr
Methods of Analysis-AC circuits, Network
Theorems-AC, PSpice-AC Operations.
SOLDERING, REPAIR &
TROUBLESHOOTING - .5cr
Basic soldering techniques, Solder/Desolder
Terminals, Printed Circuit Boards repair,
Testing/Troubleshooting Methods.
MOTORS AND CONTROL CIRCUITS -
.5cr
Stepper Motor Characteristics, Motor Control
Circuits.
PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS
- 1cr
Introduction to industrial automation and the
use of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), the
basic elements of a PLC, timers, counters, shift
registers, drum functions of PLC, Interfacing.
MICROPROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY -
1cr
Introduction-Microprocessor Technology,
Microcomputer Program Design, Techniques of Assembly
Programming with the Z80 Microprocessor.
INSTRUCTORS:
Philip D. Cimino
Cooperative Education Certification, Penn state
University
Bachelor Equivalency, PDE
Voc. II, Temple University
B.S., Temple University
