Dunwoody Electronics Technology Evening Certificate

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

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.

Class topics include:

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

Degree Requirements

To view program requirements, including required courses, electives, course descriptions, and credit hours, visit:

College Catalog: Electronics Technology (Certificate)

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 Digital Oscilloscopes
  • 12 DC power supplies and AC function generators
  • 12 Elenco circuit prototyping stations
  • 12 NIDA 130E Microprocessor trainers
  • 1 LPKF S62 PCB Mill