Becoming an Electronics Technician: Securing Your High-Tech Future - Softcover

Reis, Ronald A

9780130932198: Becoming an Electronics Technician: Securing Your High-Tech Future

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130932191 ISBN 13: 9780130932198

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

This comprehensive and finely focused guide explains to beginning electronics students what it means to be—and to become—an electronics technician in today's world. It describes the role of an electronics technician, explains how to prepare to become an electronics technician (with a complete discussion of the study skills necessary to succeed as an electronics student), and tells how to secure a first electronics technician job. Material on the background of the field examines the history of the industry to better realize the opportunities of the future. Six chapters on electric circuits in Part III keeps readers interested by providing them with opportunities to “do” electronics. For any individual considering a career as an Electronics Technician.

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From the Publisher:

This comprehensive and finely-focused guide explains to beginning electronics students what it means to be -- and to become -- an electronics technician in the late 1990s. It describes the role of an electronics technician, explains how to prepare to become an electronics technician (with a complete discussion of the study skills necessary to succeed as an electronics student), and tells how to secure a first electronics technician job.

From the Back Cover:

This book provides readers with useful and encouraging information on the exciting world of electronics.

Important changes to the fourth edition are:

Data have been revised and updated.
Information on job shadowing has been included in Chapter 5.
Information on ISCET Certification has been expanded in Chapter 7.
A completely new chapter on information technology (IT) certification, with emphasis on A+ certification, has been added.
Material on online job search techniques has been expanded in Chapter 9.
Information on negotiating salary and benefits has been included in Chapter 9.
A completely new chapter on virtual electronics has been added.
Five new projects have been added to Chapter 17.
Appendix 1, Electronic Kit and Part Sources, has been completely updated.
Fifty new terms have been added to the Glossary.

A free Instructor's Manual (ISBN 0-13-093210-8) is available to instructors using this book for a course.

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