Electronics Engineering Technology Associate in Science Degree

This A.S. Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology combines core courses in Electronics Technology plus additional math and science support courses. This degree is ideal for students who want the flexibility of receiving a skills based degree that can immediately be applied to the job market, or could facilitate transfer towards Electronics Engineering Technology or Electronic Systems Engineering Technology programs at four year universities. This degree aims at maximizing the number of courses that are directly articulated with courses from local universities. Topics in core courses focus on direct and alternating current, electronic semi-conductor devices,digital and industrial electronics, as well as the electronic assembly and fabrication. All electronics courses include extensive hands on lab work with industry standard hardware based test and measurement equipment.

Students completing this degree will be prepared to become Electronics Technicians. Typical additional job classifications include titles such as electronics drafter, calibration technologist, field service technician, field engineer, customer service technician, and maintenance technician.

10 per year with a retention rate of 94% based on success rate of Electronics students the past two years.

Upon completing the A.S. degree in Electronics Engineering Technology, students achieve competencies in the following fields of Electronics Technology: direct and alternating current fundamentals, industrial and digital electronics, as well as electronic semi-conductor components and electronic assembly and fabrication.  Students completing this a degree will be prepared for jobs in the electronics job field. Students can also use this degree to transfer to a bachelor level electronics engineering technology program at four year university. This program differs from our other Electronics degree in that it requires math and science courses in addition to the electronics technology courses. Further, this degree is meant to be one alternative as a third step in the culmination of a laddered certificate program. 

The program consists of 6 electronics technology courses (22 units), 4 support courses (14.5 units) and 24 units of G.E.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
ELEC 50A	Electronic Circuits - Direct Current	4	Y1/S1
ELEC 50B	Electronic Circuits - Alternating Current	4	Y1/S1
MATH 150	Trigonometry	3	Y1/S1
ELEC 56	Digital Electronics	4	Y1/S2
PHYS 2AG	General Physics	4	Y1/S2
ELEC 51	Semiconductor Devices and Circuits	4	Y1/S2
PHYS 2BG	General Physics	4	Y2/S1
ELEC 61	Electronic Assembly and Fabrication	3	Y2/S1
ELEC 54B	Industrial Electronics Systems	3	Y2/S2
CISP 31	Programming in C++	3	Y2/S2
CISP 31L	Programming in C++ Lab	.5	Y2/S2

Electronics and Computer Networking Technology Department

Rio Hondo and Los Angeles Trade Tech are the only schools in our college service area that offer a somewhat similar A.S. degree to the one being proposed. Both programs were contacted but we did not receive any feedback. This new degree will not cause undue competition with an existing program since it’s objective to serve current students. Rio Hondo’s program consists of an Associates Degree in Electronics Technology using 32 units of Electronics Technology courses plus general education courses. This degree does not require any math, physics or computer science courses, unlike the degree being proposed here, thus only a portion of the content could be transferred to a Bachelor’s degree compared to the degree being proposed. L.A. Trade Tech’s program consists of an electronics communications certificate and degree which has a different emphasis and targets a different market and outcome.

10 annually