An electronics technician from ACC is a well paid, semiprofessional person who has developed computational skills, analytic abilities, and electronic measurement techniques to work with all kinds of electronic equipment. His or her employment opportunities are unrestricted by community size, environmental conditions, or geographical locale. Generally, the electronic technician will be employed in the development of new equipment or in troubleshooting and maintaining existing equipment.
Opportunities also exist in the sales of electronic components and equipment.
To qualify, an electronics technician student will spend one year in the study of circuit actions of electronic components separately and in combination, when subjected to both direct current and alternating current. In the second year he or she will study circuits as building blocks in the design and manufacture of digital electronic equipment such as computers, printers, video monitors and information storage devices. The potential technician will also learn to interface the devices using a combination of hardware and software techniques. The basic objective of the program is to develop electronic skills and knowledge to provide entry level positions in electronics. The Certificate in Instrumentation Technology provides an approved educational curriculum designed to prepare the student for entry into the field of instrumentation and automation technology.