Industrial Electronics Training (Non-Credit)

About the Program

This series of workshops is intended for employees involved in the maintenance and production of electrical and electronic systems. The goal is to provide the theory and hands on design, prototyping, and troubleshooting experience necessary to upgrade skills to meet the growing need for people with up to date training in modern electronics.

Each workshop features a hands on laboratory component, which takes place in TC3's modern electronics lab. With no more than two or three people per work station, participants will gain valuable experience with the actual building, testing, and debugging of the integrated circuits discussed in theory.

About the Instructor

William Kleitz is one of the leading authors of electronics textbooks with Prentice Hall Publishers. He has written three textbooks for Prentice Hall: Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach Fifth Edition, Digital and Microprocessor Fundamentals: Theory and Applications Third Edition and Microprocessor and Microcontroller Fundamentals. His books have been adopted by more than 100 colleges and universities.

William Kleitz is also a professor at Tompkins Cortland Community College who teaches digital electronics, microprocessors, and linear integrated circuits. He has been presenting electrical technology workshops to the public since 1984, several of which are directly from his popular textbooks. Professor Kleitz has been extensively involved in analog signal conditioning and data acquisition and control research with New York State Electric and Gas Corporation the New York State Energy Office, and the School of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Cornell University.

Prerequisite

Basic math computational skills and some exposure to electrical systems and circuits.

Class Size:

12 maximum

Dates:

To be determined

Class Format:

• Instruction duration is typically set up for 48 to 64 hours depending on student background.
• Instruction is primarily ½ Lecture, ½ Laboratory.
• Arrangements can be made for 4-hour or 8-hour sessions.
• Class can be held at TC3’s electronics lab or arrangements can be made for on-site instruction.

Analog Electronics

Analog electronics is the term given to the circuitry used in devices like power supplies, audio amplifiers, wave shaping circuits and operational amplifiers. The study of analog electronics is important because it provides the fundamental theory of electricity that carries through to all of the disciplines of electronics. Learning analog electronics is necessary to understand the theory and operation of passive circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors and voltage sources as well as the more complex circuits containing diodes, transistors and linear integrated circuits. Besides teaching the theory, these workshops provide the student with hands on experience with circuit design, building and testing. Each student will gain experience in measurement and troubleshooting techniques using industry standard equipment like function generators, digital multi meters and oscilloscopes.

Analog Electronics

Basic Electronic Principles and Theory

Topics

Introduction

• Algebra review
• Scientific notation
• Calculator operation

Electrical Quantities

• Voltage, Current, Resistance
• Power
• Ohm's law

Electrical Circuits

• Electrical symbols and schematics
• Series circuits
• Voltage divider rule
• Parallel circuits
• Troubleshooting opens and shorts

Capacitors and Inductors

• Electric and magnetic fields
• Charge and discharge rates

Alternating Current

• Sine waveforms
• RMS and peak to peak
• Transformers
• Generator and motor operations
• Three-phase power
• Oscilloscope operation

Analog Electronics

Electronic Devices and Circuits

Topics

Semiconductor Theory

• Atoms
• P/N junctions

Diode and Power Supply Operation

• V/I characteristics
• Diode specifications
• Half and full wave rectifiers
• Power supply design
• Troubleshooting power supplies

Bipolar Transistors

• Characteristic curves
• Biasing circuits
• Switching circuits
• Amplifier circuits and waveforms

Field Effect Transistors

• Characteristic curves
• Biasing and switching circuits
• MOSFET characteristics
• Amplifier circuits

Electronic Circuit Simulation Using Electronics Workbench Software

Digital Electronics

Digital electronics refers to the circuitry used in computers and microprocessor based systems. Digital circuitry is also used in such areas as home entertainment systems, automobiles and medical electronics. These workshops will be caught with material from professor Kleitz's best selling textbook, Digital Electronics: A Practical Approach, Fifth Edition. The workshops cover the full spectrum of digital circuitry from the basic gates up through Programmable Logic ICs. Students will gain hands on experience building and de bugging circuits using the state of the art integrated circuits used in modern industry. Modern test and measurement instruments will be used to monitor actual circuit operation. Specialized software will be run on PCs to perform circuit design and simulation.

Digital Electronics

Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits

Topics

Digital Number System

• Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal
• BCD
• ASCII

Digital Signals and Switches

• Clock waveform timing
• Serial and parallel representations
• Diode and transistor switches

Basic Gating

• AND, OR, Inverter, NAND, NOR
• Exclusive OR/NOR
• Building and testing circuits with digital ICs

Data Conversion ICs

• Comparators
• Decoding and Encoding
• Multiplexers and Demultiplexers
• Digital Circuit Troubleshooting Techniques

TTL and CMOS IC Characteristics

• The TTL series
• Voltage and current ratings
• Speed power considerations
• The CMOS series
• Comparing logic families
• Interfacing logic families
• Using the oscilloscope for voltage and time measurements

Digital Electronics

Advanced Digital Electronics

Topics

Flip Flops and Registers

• Cross NAND S R flip flop
• The 7474 D flip flop IC
• The 74LS76 J K flip flop IC
• Three state buffers, latches and transceivers

Counter and Shift Register Circuits

• Ripple Counters
• Design of Mod N counters
• Counter ICs
• 7 segment displays
• Shift register operation
• Shift register ICs

Oscillator and Timing Circuits

• Multivibrators
• The 74121 one shot IC
• The 555 timer IC

Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital Conversion

• DAC techniques
• DAC ICs
• ADC techniques
• ADC ICs

Data Acquisition and Control

The data acquisition and control (DAC) workshop is a culmination of the other three sets of workshops. Students will use the skills obtained in the previous workshops to design and develop circuitry to be used with PCs, microcontrollers and PLCs to automatically acquire analog and digital quantities, analyze them, and perform control operations based on the results. The major component of a successful DAC application is being able to convert analog and digital values into quantities that can be understood by a microcontroller, PC or PLC. Several techniques for doing that conversion and for handling the data will be explored.

Automated Data Acquisition and Control

Sensors, Transducers, and Signal Conditioning

Topics

Transducers

• Current transformer
• Temperature sensors
• Strain gage
• Linear variable differential transformer
• Stepper motor
• Light source/sensor
• Proximity switches
• 4 to 20mA current loops

Signal Conditioning

• Operational and instrumentation amplifiers
• Non linear functions
• Precision millivolt rectification
• Bridge Circuit
• ADC handshaking

Operational Amplifier and Comparator Circuits

• Digital interfacing with a computer
• Temperature setpoint controller
• Precision rectifiers
• Active filters