Becoming an Electronics Technician
Securing Your High-Tech Future
4th Edition
Published on 13. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-13-093219-8 (ISBN)
Description
For introductory and survey courses in the electronics technology curriculum.
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
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-093219-8 (9780130932198)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Book
12/1999
3rd Edition
Pearson
€24.79
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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, David, 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. Information Technology (IT) Certification: A New World of Credentialing.
9. Launching Your Career as an Electronics Technician: Finding, Getting, and Keeping Your First Position.
III. "MAKING LIKE" AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
10. Breadboarding: A Half-Dozen Ways to Go.
11. Creating Troubleshooting Trees: Your Key to Circuit Understanding and Repair.
12. Transducers: The Ins and Outs of Electronic Circuits.
13. A Short Course on Active Solid-State Components: The Big Half-Dozen.
14. Electronics Safety: Where the Danger Lies.
15. Getting Started with SMT: Surface Mount Technology for the Electronics Experimenter.
16. Virtual Electronics.
17. Useful Electronic Projects You Can Build.
Appendix 1: Electronic Kit and Part Sources.
Appendix 2: The Big Three Electronics Magazines.
Glossary.
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, David, 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. Information Technology (IT) Certification: A New World of Credentialing.
9. Launching Your Career as an Electronics Technician: Finding, Getting, and Keeping Your First Position.
III. "MAKING LIKE" AN ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN.
10. Breadboarding: A Half-Dozen Ways to Go.
11. Creating Troubleshooting Trees: Your Key to Circuit Understanding and Repair.
12. Transducers: The Ins and Outs of Electronic Circuits.
13. A Short Course on Active Solid-State Components: The Big Half-Dozen.
14. Electronics Safety: Where the Danger Lies.
15. Getting Started with SMT: Surface Mount Technology for the Electronics Experimenter.
16. Virtual Electronics.
17. Useful Electronic Projects You Can Build.
Appendix 1: Electronic Kit and Part Sources.
Appendix 2: The Big Three Electronics Magazines.
Glossary.
Index.