It will prepare graduates to enter the broad the field of production and manufacturing. Entry level employment skills include installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production equipment. Extensive laboratory coursework allows the student to work with a broad variety of computer based control systems and industrial instrumentation. Recommended courses include bolstering the student s understanding of industrial data communications, computer maintenance, and computer networking. This, along with a solid foundation in analog electronics, signal conditioning, and sensor technology provides an excellent background to enter any facet of industrial electronics.
Graduates find themselves on career tracks that lead to production management and supervision.
Recent graduates have found excellent job opportunity in literally all areas of the industry. The American manufacturing industry is booming. Today s economy along with advancement in production and control equipment is providing excellent job opportunities for electronics technologists in a wide range of positions. Production technicians maximize productivity through proper, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of modern industrial control and communication equipment in a production plant. Production managers oversee the equipment and are an integral part of the selecting appropriate equipment, coordinating production, and managing maintenance personnel.