This program prepares electronic engineering technicians to design, build, troubleshoot, repair, maintain, and program electrical and electronic equipment for business, industry, and government. Students work in modern labs using test and measurement, diagnostic, and controls equipment manufactured by companies such as Tektronix, Agilent, and Allen-Bradley. Students learn to use digital and analog oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers (telecommunications), network cable analyzers (networked computer systems), and programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
The curriculum builds from the basics of D.C. and A.C. circuit analysis, electronic devices, and digital signal processing through more advanced course work in electronic amplifiers, industrial instrumentation, microprocessor interfacing, PLC wiring and programming, motors and controls, designing and installing networked computer systems, and telecommunications.
Students completing the EEET program can become certified engineering technicians by passing the NICET exam. Students may pursue careers as engineering design technicians, protection and control technicians, station electricians, meter electricians, telecommunications technicians, generation dispatchers, transmission dispatchers, distribution dispatchers, instrument and control electricians, bio-medical technicians, and network technicians.
The Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology (EEET) Associates of Applied Science degree is nationally recognized for its quality. It is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, https//www.abet.org
The rapid growth of electronic, telecommunication, and computer industries worldwide has led to a demand for electronics technicians that has far exceeded supply. As a result, wages and benefits for electronics technicians rank among the top for two-year graduates, often exceeding those of four-year graduates in other disciplines. Graduates work for such well-known companies as American Electric Power, Goodyear, Ralston Purina, SBC, EASi, First Energy, Basic Systems, Bi-Con, AK Steel, MPW, Columbia Gas, and Colgate Palmolive.
Over the next decade electric and natural gas utilities in our region and the nation are forecasting a need for a significant number of new hires to replace a retiring workforce. Demand for degreed technicians by the utility industry is very strong. The Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technology faculty work closely with electric and natural gas utilities to identify skills needed by those industries. Students interested in careers in the electrical or natural gas utility industry should work closely with the program faculty to select technical elective courses in preparation for careers in one of these industries.
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