Provides job-specific skill development for entry-level employment in the telecommunication industry, through four-level technical laboratory instruction.
First-level instruction provides an overview of the various telecommunications systems in use today and an introduction to innovations in the communications field.
Second-level instruction is conducted through study and lab projects to demonstrate the basic principles of electricity, alternating-current inductance and capacitance, reactance, alternating-current circuit theory, diodes, transistors and transistor switches, resonant circuits, oscillators, and transformers.
Third-level instruction enhances skill development in the soldering techniques used in electronics and the manufacture of various types of circuit boards. Telecommunications radio circuitry is also included.
Fourth-level instruction includes the history and evolution of
telecommunications, analog and digital transmission, switching hierarchy and
systems, North American digital hierarchies, transmission standards, the local
telephone loop, and microwave transmission.
