Dunwoody Electronics Technology Evening Certificate

Gain the hands-on experience and entry-level skills needed to get a job in the electronics industry with an electronics technician certificate

Learn the basics of electricity and electronics.

Design, build, and troubleshoot digital circuits. Install, program, test and troubleshoot programmable logic controllers.

Credits earned in the Electronics Technology certificate directly transfer into Dunwoody’s Industrial Controls & Robotics or Electronics Technology associate’s degrees.

Explore the Electronics Technology Certificate in the College Catalog

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Class topics include:

  • Basic Electricity & Electronics Theory
  • Digital & Microprocessors Theory
  • Algebra
  • Trigonometry

Student Organizations

Opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom include:

  • Robotic Snow Plow Team
  • SkillsUSA

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Facilities

Controls Engineering Lab

Assemble and program the industrial controls used in discrete manufacturing and advanced process control applications.

  • 24 Allen Bradley L18ERM CompactLogix PLCs
  • 24 Allen Bradley PanelView HMIs
  • 24 Kinetix Motion Controllers
  • 24 Powerflex VFDs
  • 24 Cognex Machine Vision Systems
  • Emerson Process Controls & Instrumentation

Programmable Controls Lab

Learn to debug and program programmable logic controllers for use in a variety of control systems.

  • 11 Allen Bradley MicroLogix PLCs
  • 11 Allen Bradley CompactLogix PLCs
  • 11 Siemens S7-1200 PLCs
  • 11 ABB VFDs
  • 11 Maple Systems HMIs

Basic Electricity Lab

Complete projects that help you learn the fundamentals of electricity, including how to analyze, design, build, and test series, parallel and combination AC and DC circuits.

  • 12 individual workstations that include: Lighted Magnifier; Digital Microscope; Soldering Iron; Fume Extractor; Work Holding Equipment; Hot Air Rework Equipment; Prototyping and Wiring Tools; Linear Power Supply Transformer Trainer; Digital Oscilloscope; Digital Multimeter; Analog Multimeter; DC Power Supply; AC Function Generator
  • 2 LPKF S64 PCB Milling Machines
  • Neoden Solder Paste Stencil Station
  • Neoden PCB Pick and Place Machine
  • Neoden PCB Reflow Oven
  • Digital Thermal Imaging Camera
  • 5 LabVIEW DAQ Trainers
  • 12 Microcontroller Development Training Kits
  • Instructor overhead projector station for demonstrations