Becoming An Electronics Technician
Securing Your High-Tech Future
3rd Edition
Published on 8. December 1999
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-13-082651-0 (ISBN)
Description
A supplement for any course in the electronics technology curriculum, or an appropriate text in a survey course where electronics technology majors are being "recruited".
This comprehensive and finely-focused guide explains to beginning electronics students what it means to be-and to become-an electronics technician in today's world. It describes the role of an electronics technician, explains how to prepare to become an electronics technician (with a complete discussion of the study skills necessary to succeed as an electronics student), and tells how to secure a first electronics technician job.
This comprehensive and finely-focused guide explains to beginning electronics students what it means to be-and to become-an electronics technician in today's world. It describes the role of an electronics technician, explains how to prepare to become an electronics technician (with a complete discussion of the study skills necessary to succeed as an electronics student), and tells how to secure a first electronics technician job.
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-082651-0 (9780130826510)
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08/2002
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Content
I. BEING AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
1. The Electronics Industry: In the Air and Everywhere.
2. Electronics: Field of Dreams.
3. The Electronics Technician: Bringing Electronics to Life.
4. Electronics Technician Profiles: Meet Ron, Kay, Gideon, and Eric.
II. BECOMING AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
5. Taking the Big Step: Getting Educated in Electronics.
6. Succeeding as an Electronics Student: Making the Most of Your School Day.
7. Being an "Electronics Activist": Electronics Beyond the Classroom.
8. Launching Your Career as an Electronics Technician: Finding, Getting, and Keeping Your First Position.
III. "MAKING LIKE" AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
9. Breadboarding: A Half-Dozen Ways to Go.
10. Creating Troubleshooting Trees: Your Key to Circuit Understanding and Repair.
11. Transducers: The Ins and Outs of Electronic Circuits.
12. A Short Course on Active Solid-State Components: The Big Half-Dozen.
13. Electronics Safety: Where the Danger Lies.
14. Getting Started with SMT: Surface Mount Technology for the Electronics Experimenter.
15. Useful Electronic Projects You Can Build.
Appendix 1: Electronic Kit and Part Sources.
Appendix 2: The Big Three Electronics Magazines.
Index.
1. The Electronics Industry: In the Air and Everywhere.
2. Electronics: Field of Dreams.
3. The Electronics Technician: Bringing Electronics to Life.
4. Electronics Technician Profiles: Meet Ron, Kay, Gideon, and Eric.
II. BECOMING AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
5. Taking the Big Step: Getting Educated in Electronics.
6. Succeeding as an Electronics Student: Making the Most of Your School Day.
7. Being an "Electronics Activist": Electronics Beyond the Classroom.
8. Launching Your Career as an Electronics Technician: Finding, Getting, and Keeping Your First Position.
III. "MAKING LIKE" AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
9. Breadboarding: A Half-Dozen Ways to Go.
10. Creating Troubleshooting Trees: Your Key to Circuit Understanding and Repair.
11. Transducers: The Ins and Outs of Electronic Circuits.
12. A Short Course on Active Solid-State Components: The Big Half-Dozen.
13. Electronics Safety: Where the Danger Lies.
14. Getting Started with SMT: Surface Mount Technology for the Electronics Experimenter.
15. Useful Electronic Projects You Can Build.
Appendix 1: Electronic Kit and Part Sources.
Appendix 2: The Big Three Electronics Magazines.
Index.