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Electronics Department:
Fabrication Techniques

605-109    1 Credit    approximately 2 hours of classroom time per week

Emphasis is on the use of hand tools, soldering, shearing, forming, punching, chassis construction. Students construct a project in a hands-on situation.

Upon completion of this course, the student will meet the following competencies:

  1. Select and use the various tools and hardware complete a project.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to measure, layout and fabricate a chassis from a print.
  3. Assemble and mount electronic components to circuit boards by wire wrapping and soldering.

As a completely self-paced course, the student moves at their own pace.  All work must be completed by the end of the semester.  However, the student may finish early.  The instructor is in the room at all times during the Open Lab and available for questions.  The instructor will check on the students' progress throughout the semester, to ensure they finish on time.  There is also an extensive video library that the students can view, in our Open-Entry, Self-Paced Resource Center (T-403). 

The semester plan is laid out in "units".  Each unit is approximately equal to one week.  The student must complete all items in each row before moving on to the next row.
 

Semester Plan
Unit Lab Project Videos
1 Safety
  Laboratory Safety
  ESD Safety
  Engineering Log Book Layout		 Electronics Lab Safety

Safety in Electronic Assembly

Electrostatic Discharge Control
2 Hand Tool Familiarization Hand Tool Safety

Component Identification
3 Thru-Hole Soldering Techniques Hand Soldering Parts 1 & 2
4 Thru-Hole Desoldering Techniques Through - Hole Rework
5 DB-9 Connector Construction Hand Soldering for Terminals
6 CAT-5 Cable Construction Rework of Surface Mount Technology Part 1
7 Heat Shrink Tubing Application Rework of Surface Mount Technology Part 2
8 BNC Connector Construction none

 

 

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