Many graduates choose to continue their education and are accepted into Electronic Technology programs leading to the Bachelor of Science degree. Alternatively, a graduate could choose to pursue a degree in business, acquiring both technical and business skills. Others who choose to enter the workforce are employed by companies producing consumer products, technology for other companies, defense contractors, or network providers.

The quality of the program is reflected in the fact that the Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012- telephone: (410) 347-7700 has accredited the Electronic Engineering Technology program.

Curriculum
The curriculum is structured to provide a broad education, with students taking courses in each of the recognized areas of analog circuits, digital circuits, processors, writing skills, presentation skills, algebra, trigonometry, and elementary calculus, computer application skills, programming skills, and problem solving skills. Typically the electronics courses are three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory work, reinforcing concepts and principles taught in the classroom and providing extensive hand-on education.

Facilities
The electronics laboratory is equipped to provide students ample and meaningful hands-on experience in bread-boarding, testing, schematic capture, and simulation of analog and digital circuits. Students will typically spend four hours a week in the laboratory, confirming that the lecture material works in real life and is not unproven theory. Students follow the laboratory experiment with a report where the results are analyzed and discussed. In the laboratory, the students learn how to use standard test equipment to build circuits, create schematics, and test circuits using standard laboratory test equipment.

Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Associate Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology, the graduate will be able to:

• Analyze or troubleshoot in three major electronic engineering areas:
        Analog Circuits,
        Digital Circuits, and
        Processors.
• Recognize and apply fundamental knowledge of mathematics, from algebra and trigonometry, through introductory calculus, and further applied in physics and analog courses.
• Conduct experiments, building or breadboarding when required. Use basic test equipment and tools to measure performance, and to critically analyze and interpret data.
• Identify, formulate, and solve electronic engineering problems using modern engineering tools, techniques, and skills.
• Effectively communicate technical observations, results, issues, and successes.
• Request action effectively, preferably by persuasion and avoiding confrontation if possible.
• Apply computer skills for preparing technical documents or analyzing data, using applications for word processing, spreadsheets, simple programming, schematic capture, and simulation.
• Calculate inventory costs, parts costs, and time costs.
• Read manuals and schematics, and identify components on a printed wiring board.
• Apply principles of time management and managing multiple priorities.
• Explain the importance of compliance with professional practice and ethical issues, such as: honest test reporting, honest time reporting, privacy issues, and security of information, etc.
• Value the impact of electronic engineering solutions on health, general welfare, safety, environmental quality and economy in a global context.
• Apply proper laboratory procedures.

Faculty
Richard Le Blanc, Chair
Instructor Staff: Mozhgan Hosseinpour, James Guimarra

Course Descriptions
See Course Descriptions after Medical Electronics.