Electronics
The Electronics program provides students with the skills, academic and technical, needed by technicians in the electronics industry. Students are educated through experimentation, troubleshooting, usage of test equipment and project construction. Safety standards and state-of-the-art practices are integral parts of the program. In addition, Vocational/Academic Integration (VAI) is applied to tasks throughout the program to ensure that relevant skills for learner understanding are addressed before material is presented and performance is tested. Computer Aided Instruction (CAl) is also employed to measure both individual and/or group progress. Throughout the four years students are taught the math skills necessary for electronics. The math skills include algebra in all four years and some trigonometry starting in grade ten. Boolean algebra is touched upon in grades eleven and twelve during the digital portions of the course. At the end of every vocational week students are required to pass in a formal step-by-step lab report detailing the lab procedures done during the week. This lab report concludes with a written summary, using Microsoft Word, written in the third person that provides a narrative summing up the week’s work. Students are required to use Excel spreadsheets for data logging and graphing. In addition, they are occasionally asked to present selected subject material using Microsoft PowerPoint.