Erie Community College, State University of New York

COMPUTER REPAIR TECHNOLOGY

Program Competencies

Upon graduation with an associate in applied science degree in Computer Repair Technology, the graduate will be able to:

• Use the resistor color code and component recognition.
• Be proficient at electronic soldering and terminating wire connections using solderless type connectors.
• Use a curve tracer to check all types of diodes, bipolar transistors, and field effect transistors.
• Demonstrate proficiency in using electronic test instrumentation dual trace scopes, frequency counters, and function generators.
• Be proficient at troubleshooting half-wave, full-wave, bridge power supplies. In addition, student will be able to troubleshoot and repair voltage doublers.
• Prototype multi-stage analog and digital circuits, check these circuits for normal operation, and design and construct circuit boards for these circuits.
• Design, construct, and test digital logic circuits to meet the demands of any 4 input logic circuits.
• Understand basic theory and architecture of computer systems.
• Interact with a computer system to assess its performance.
• Disassemble and reassemble mechanical components of computer systems and adjust for proper operation.
• Isolate system malfunction by relating program execution to specific groups of circuits.
• Use system software to generate, operate, and maintain program logos to identify failed system components.
• Understand power systems.
• Isolate data communications system faults to specific subsystems.