Electronics for Technology and Engineering Teachers

Course Outcomes Level 1

• BMG: Technology transfer occurs when a new user applies an existing innovation developed for one purpose in a different function.
• BMH: Technological innovation often results when ideas, knowledge or skills are shared within a technology, among technologies or across other fields.
• BMI: Technological progress promotes the advancement of science and mathematics.

• BMG: Most technological development has been evolutionary, the result of a series of refinements to a basic invention.
• BMH: The evolution of society has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools and materials.
• BMI: Throughout history, technology has been a powerful force in reshaping the social, cultural, political, and economic landscape.
• BMO: The information age places emphasis on the processing and exchange of information.

• BMF: Troubleshooting is a problem-solving method used to identify the cause of a malfunction in a technological system.
• BMG: Invention is a process of turning ideas and imagination into devices and systems. Innovation is the process of modifying an existing product or system to improve it.
• BMH: Some technological problems are best solved through experimentation.

• BML: Information and communication technologies include the inputs, processes, and outputs associated with sending and receiving information.
• BMM: Information and communication systems allow information to be transferred from human to human, human to machine, machine to human, and machine to machine.
• BMO: Communication systems are made up of source, encoder, transmitter, receiver, decoder, storage, retrieval, and destination.
• BMP: There are many ways to communicate information, such as graphic and electronic means.
• BMQ: Technological knowledge and processes are communicated using symbols, measurement, conventions, icons, graphic images, and languages that incorporate a variety of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli.

Course Outcomes - Level 2

1. Students will be able to describe the basic electronic concepts of voltage, amperage, resistance & power.
2. Students will be able to use Ohm’s and Watt’s law to perform basic calculations in an electronic circuit.
3. Students will be able to describe how voltage, amperage, power & resistance behave in series and parallel circuits and be able to calculate unknown quantities in a circuit.
4. Students will be able to use a power supply, breadboard, basic components, and a digital multi-meter to build, test and troubleshoot basic electronic circuits.
5. Students will be able to use a digital multi-meter, oscilloscope and digital logic probe to test, troubleshoot and repair faulty circuits.
6. Students will be able to identify basic electronics components and describe the function of each component.
7. Students will be able to identify and draw the basic schematic symbols used to represent electronics components in a circuit.
8. Students will be able to use appropriate materials and equipment (including simulation software, CNC Mill, soldering iron) to design and build a working electronic circuit that is a solution to a technological problem and/or need.
9. Students will be able to successfully calculate unknown quantities and complete labs associated with magnetism, electromagnetic induction, capacitors, semiconductors, transformers and alternating current.
10. Based on a set of given inputs and desired outputs, students will be able to design a digital electronic circuit as a solution to a technological problem or need.
11. Students will be able to collect technical data and to apply appropriate math and science knowledge to see the connections between technology and other fields of study.
12. Students will be able to describe historical examples of discoveries, experiments, innovations and inventions related to electronics communications technology and be able to provide examples of technology transfer and how these technologies affected past and current society.