Essential Functions

The purpose of the essential functions list is to allow prospective students who are considering a career to be informed of the physical, emotional, and psychological demands related to training and employment in a field of study. These lists are provided to allow prospective students to make informed career choices by providing them with a summary of the physical abilities and personality traits that are generally required for the successful completion of a curriculum and result in employment in their field of study after graduation. For students to be successful in the Electronics Technology programs, they must be able to perform the following essential functions:

• Essential Functions Required for Student Performance.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot DC circuits and circuit laws: Kirchoff's law, Ohm's law, Power law, voltage-divider circuits, series/parallel resistor circuits, and resistor color code chart.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot AC circuits and circuit laws: sine waves, instantaneous voltages and currents, series/parallel AC circuits, Kirchoff's law, Ohm's law, Power law, voltage-divider law, capacitors, inductors, and passive filters.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot solid state devices and circuits using transistors, diodes for biasing circuits using amplifiers, cascaded amplifiers, filters, decibels, power supplies, and regulation and filtering.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot digital systems electronic devices using Boolean logic, truth tables, logic gates, TTL devices, Karnaugh mapping, combinational logic circuits, sequential logic using counters, adders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, memory, microprocessors, and programmable logic arrays.
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot linear electronics circuits with active amplifiers and filters, frequency analysis, feedback systems, oscillators, and timers.
• Ability to Use Senses.
• Visual: Acuity to identify symbols on schematics or electronics prints and to read fine print on equipment or other documents required in the operation of oscilloscopes, signal generators, DVM, and electronics test equipment.
• Hearing: Ability to hear sounds and emergency signals (with auditory aids or a full-time interpreter for the hearing impaired) and to understand a normal speaking voice without direct access to the speaker's face.
• Tactile: Ability to work with small electronics devices and use connections for the testing of electronics circuits and devices.
• Motor Ability.
• Physical ability to walk long distances and stand for long periods of time; to lift, move, and transfer equipment of at least 50 pounds; and to maneuver in limited space.
• Ability to work while in hot/humid and/or cold conditions.
• Manual dexterity to efficiently and safely use equipment, power tools and hand tools, and other small and large equipment while wearing essential safety glasses, gloves, and/or other necessary required safety gear.
• Ability to Understand Need for a Safe Work Environment.
• Practical awareness of laboratory environment in electronics
• Ability to wear necessary safety gear, i.e. safety glasses, gloves, head covering, etc.
• Ability to maintain safe environment at all times
• Ability to Communicate.
• Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written forms to class partners and/or team and to instructor.
• Ability to write and perform routine mathematical calculations clearly and correctly.
• Basic proficiency in technology (computers and peripheral components) as industry requires.
• Ability to Problem Solve.
• Intellectual and conceptual ability for measuring, calculating, reasoning, analyzing, and prioritizing daily functions in today's electronics technician's jobs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency without jeopardizing safety.
• Ability to react and adjust as instructed by the instructor(s) during lab or shop instruction or based on customer's needs.
• Ability to Maintain Emotional Stability.
• Ability to function safely under stress in today's workplace and adapt to changing staff and client/customer situations.
• Ability to maintain composure and professionalism at all times in labs and work environment.
• Ability to Perform Practical Outcomes.
• Ability to function under the practical guidelines of the electronics laboratory and procedures.