Electronics Technology (IELT), AAS
At Dunwoody College of Technology, the Electronics Technology program provides evening students with the entry-level skills and theoretical knowledge needed to design and troubleshoot circuits utilizing the latest semiconductor devices; biomedical devices; microprocessors; microcontrollers; circuit design; fabrication equipment; and data acquisition devices.
Graduates from this program are prepared to enter the industry as electronics technicians, assemblers, calibration technicians, and field service technicians.
The course of study includes: basic electricity and electronics; digital electronics; microprocessors and microcontrollers; programmable logic controllers (PLCs); communication systems; and circuit engineering.
Arts & Sciences curriculum supports the technical coursework by enhancing the students' communication, mathematics, and critical thinking skills.
Credits earned in the Electronics Technology AAS directly transfer into the following Dunwoody programs:
- Automation & Controls Engineering Technology Bachelor of Science (AENT)
- Industrial Engineering Technology Bachelor of Science (IENG)
A shorter certificate option is also available.
Length of Program: 2 years (4 semesters)
Classes Offered: Evening
Available Starts: Fall Semester; Spring Semester
- Apply the concepts of basic electricity.
- Demonstrate required industry safety standards.
- Explain the operation of electronic devices.
- Troubleshoot circuits and systems using industry standard test equipment.
- Analyze electrical schematics and mechanical prints.
- Employ fundamental concepts of industrial electronics and process control.
- Apply concepts of analog and digital communication systems.
- Analyze the operation of microprocessors, micro-controllers, and computers.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| General Requirements | ||
| MATH1000 | Algebra & Trigonometry | 3 |
| MATH1250 | Boolean Algebra | 3 |
| Communications | 3 | |
| Humanities | 3 | |
| Science Elective | 3 | |
| Social Sciences | 3 | |
| Technical Requirements | ||
| ELTT1100 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Lab | 2 |
| ELTT1120 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory | 8 |
| ELTT1200 | Digital & Microprocessors Lab | 2 |
| ELTT1220 | Digital & Microprocessors Theory | 8 |
| ASRO2101 | Industrial Controls & PLC's Lab | 3 |
| ASRO2120 | Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory | 8 |
| ELTT2201 | Advanced Electronics Lab | 3 |
| ELTT2230 | Advanced Electronics Theory | 8 |
| Total Credits | 60 | |
The following sample academic plan demonstrates how a student's schedule might look on a semester-by-semester basis, including elective courses. Your actual degree plan may differ from this sequence, depending on whether you start in the fall or spring semester, what transfer credits you may have (if any), and which General Education courses and electives you take and when you take them.
The sample academic plan is for informational purposes only. To determine your academic plan, please meet with an academic advisor.
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | |
| ELTT1100 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Lab | 2 |
| ELTT1120 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory | 8 |
| MATH1000 | Algebra & Trigonometry | 3 |
| Humanities | 3 | |
| Credits | 16 | |
| Total Credits | 16 | |
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spring | Credits | |
| ELTT1200 | Digital & Microprocessors Lab | 2 |
| ELTT1220 | Digital & Microprocessors Theory | 8 |
| MATH1250 | Boolean Algebra | 3 |
| Social Science | 3 | |
| Credits | 16 | |
| Total Credits | 16 | |
| Second Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | |
| ASRO2101 | Industrial Controls & PLC's Lab | 3 |
| ASRO2120 | Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory | 8 |
| Communications | 3 | |
| Science Elective | 3 | |
| Credits | 17 | |
| Total Credits | 17 | |
| Second Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spring | Credits | |
| ELTT2201 | Advanced Electronics Lab | 3 |
| ELTT2230 | Advanced Electronics Theory | 8 |
| Credits | 11 | |
| Total Credits | 11 | |
Descriptions
ELTT1100 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Lab | Laboratory (2 Credits)
Analyze, design, and build series, parallel and combination AC and DC circuits. Build and test semiconductor circuits, power supplies, transistor circuits using protoboards and various test equipment.
ELTT1120 | Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory | Lecture (8 Credits)
Identification, recognition and calculations associated with basic electricity, including Ohm's Law, resistance, capacitance, inductance in AC and DC circuits, as well as solid state principles of diodes, power supplies and transistors.
ELTT1200 | Digital & Microprocessors Lab | Laboratory (2 Credits)
Design, build, and troubleshoot digital circuits. Debug and program microprocessors and microcontrollers for various operations and interface to external devices. Analyze digital and microprocessor circuits using industry standard test equipment.
Prerequisite(s): ELTT1120
ELTT1220 | Digital & Microprocessors Theory | Lecture (8 Credits)
Identification, recognition and calculations associated with combinational and sequential logic circuits as well as internal architecture of microprocessors and microcontrollers, programming, logic operations, memory mapping, addressing, data transfer, and system control.
Prerequisite(s): ELTT1120
ASRO2101 | Industrial Controls & PLC's Lab | Laboratory (3 Credits)
Installation, wiring, programming, operation, testing and troubleshooting programmable logic controllers. Interfacing programmable logic controllers with switches, sensors, motors, pneumatics, and other I/O devices. Set-up, configuration and troubleshooting inductive and capacitive proximity, photo-electric, temperature and other industrial sensors.
ASRO2120 | Industrial Controls & PLCs Theory | Lecture (8 Credits)
Wiring and programming fundamentals associated with programmable logic controllers. Identification, recognition and calculations associated with inductive and capacitive proximity, photo-electric, temperature and other industrial sensors.
ELTT2201 | Advanced Electronics Lab | Laboratory (3 Credits)
Design and build single and multistage transistor amplifiers, operation amplifier control circuits, thyristors, motors, radio frequency circuits; other advanced electronics topics.
ELTT2230 | Advanced Electronics Theory | Lecture (8 Credits)
Identification, recognition and calculations associated with single and multistage transistor amplifiers, operation amplifier control circuits, thyristors, motors, radio frequency circuits as well as other advanced electronics topics.
Prerequisite(s): ELTT1120
MATH1000 | Algebra & Trigonometry | Lecture (3 Credits)
Real numbers and polynomials, exponents and radicals, fractional equations; proportions and linear equations; trigonometric functions, solutions of triangles, radians, trig functions graphs, vectors, and basic identities.
General Education: Mathematics
MATH1250 | Boolean Algebra | Lecture (3 Credits)
Binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems. Boolean algebra and mapping.
General Education: Mathematics