Electrical and Electronics Equipment Installers and Repairer Cluster

PREPARATION  LEVEL  COURSES

I330  Advanced  Electronics  I  (ACC)

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: 2.5

Grade level: 11, 12

This course is the first year of a two year program that prepares students for direct employment in the electronics industry, the military, or for further study.  Students learn the fundamentals of electricity and electronics through class instruction and laboratory experimentation in circuit construction.  Student learning experiences include instruction and activities with safety principles and components such as resistors, capacitors, coils, transformers, diodes, and transistors.  Skills in soldering are gained by building a variety of electronic projects.  Computers are used to teach schematic drawing, circuit design, and circuit troubleshooting.  In addition, the fundamentals of residential wiring are taught.  Students who earn an A or B in this course qualify for 3 hours of articulated credit from Black Hawk College.

I331  Electronics  IA

Course length: 1 semester

Course credit: .5

Grade level: 11, 12

Electronics IA offers the student experience in the dual field of electricity and electronics.  No previous electronics course work is required.  DC circuit concepts are taught through experimentation.  Students will learn how to analyze the circuits they construct by collecting data with analog and digital meters.  Fundamentals of magnetism and instrumentation are introduced.  Computers will be used to draw electrical diagrams and aid the student in learning course content.  Proper soldering techniques will be gained through project construction.

I332  Electronics  IB

Course length: 1 semester

Course credit: .5

Grade level: 11, 12

This course will emphasize AC circuit fundamentals.  Course work includes units on AC passive and active devices.  Study includes learning the relationships between inductance, capacitance, and resistance.  Series and parallel RC and RL circuit analysis will be presented.  Students will learn how to analyze circuits that they construct with meters and oscilloscopes.  Testing capacitors, inductors, and solid state components for opens and shorts will be introduced.  Proper use of the signal generator will be stressed. Power supply and amplifier systems will be discussed and built.

I430  Advanced  Electronics  II  (ACC)

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: 2.5

Grade level: 12

This course is the second year of a two year program that requires students to build, analyze, measure, and troubleshoot electronic systems.  Students’ learning experiences include instruction and activities focusing on safety principles, network theorems, design and calibration of meter circuits, power supplies, amplifiers, digital logic circuits, and computer software and hardware.  Skills in using oscilloscopes and function generators are developed.  Computers are used to teach schematic drawing, circuit design, and circuit troubleshooting.  Students who earn an A or B in this course qualify for an additional 3 hours of articulated credit from Black Hawk College.

I401  INDUSTRIAL  TECHNOLOGY  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATION

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: variable

Grade level: 11, 12

Industrial Technology Cooperative Education is designed for junior and senior students interest in pursuing careers in Industrial Technology.  Students are released from school for their paid cooperative education work experience.  They participate in 200 minutes per week of related classroom instruction focusing on job survival skills, career exploration skills related to the job, and human relations skills. 

A qualified industrial technology instructor is responsible for supervision and is given 30 minutes per student per week to do so.  Written training agreements and individual student training plans are developed and agreed upon by the employer, student and coordinator.  The coordinator, student and employer assume compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.  The coordinator also needs to have taken six semester hours of organization and administration of cooperative education.

The course content includes the following broad areas of emphasis:  further career education opportunities, planning for the future, job seeking skills, personal development, human relationship, legal protection and responsibilities, economics of the job, organization and job termination.

Z401  INTERRELATED  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATION       

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: variable

Grade level: 11, 12

Interrelated Cooperative Education is designed for junior and/or senior students interested in pursuing careers in vocational occupations.  Students are released from school for their paid cooperative education work experience and participate in 200 minutes per week of related classroom instruction.  Classroom instruction focuses on providing students with job survival skills and career exploration skills related to the job and improving student’s abilities to interact positively with others.  For skills related to the job, refer to the skill development course outlines and the task list of the desired occupational program.

A qualified vocational cooperative coordinator is responsible for supervision.  Written training agreements and individual student training plans are developed and agreed upon by the employer, student and coordinator.  Occupational task lists form the basis for training plans.  The coordinator, student and employer assume compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.

The course content includes the following broad areas of emphasis: further career education opportunities, planning for the future, job-seeking skills, personal development, human relationships, legal protection and responsibilities, economics and the job, organization and job termination.  In addition, classroom instruction includes technical skills as identified on occupational task lists.