Telecommunication and Networking Telecommunications and Networking Welcome to the Electronics Management's Telecommunications and Networking Web Site at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. The Telecommunications and Networking program of study is designed to educate students in telecommunications, data communications, computer networks, network management, and related areas including business, legal, and social issues. It will prepare graduates to install, configure, troubleshoot, repair, and manage computer networks and telecommunications infrastructures in industry, health care, commerce, and other organizations. The core of the last two years of this specialized ELM baccalaureate degree requires 22 credit hours, with an additional 18 hours of electives that gives students the background in telecommunications and networking that is valued by every sector of today's economy, including industry leaders such as Lucent and Cisco.
Transfers students are welcome.
Students who have completed a two year associate degree in electronics or a computer related field will find this curriculum to be a perfect compliment to their degree. Special accommodations to ensure a smooth transition are made for the transfer student through the Capstone option and special articulation agreements with many of the community colleges throughout Illinois. Even if a student has never taken the cover off of an electronic piece of equipment, by the middle of this course they will be able to identify all major components and connectors on the Motherboard and completely disassemble and reinstall all of the following hardware at a mastery time level of 30 minutes. In addition to handling the basics, students also install all of the hardware and software to create a complete multimedia computer with video camera, microphone, flat bed scanner with a SCSI interface card, a second parallel port, and a color inkject printer. Students will learn to troubleshoot both software and hardware problems using LAN analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and diagnostic software.