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Adhere to national, state, and local industry established safety procedures
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration, written product and/or oral
Criteria
Locate a first-aid kit in your working environment
Locate fire extinguishers
Describe the process to access emergency help
Adhere to warning labels and signs
Use OSHA certified PPE
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Apply established symbols, standards, conventions, and terminology
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Match the name for electrical and magnetic quantities and units, to the correct SI symbol
Match engineering notation powers of ten, to the standard metric prefix and symbol
Convert among metric prefixed units
Convert a quantity written in scientific notation to a standard metric prefix notation
Select the correct electrical components from a schematic diagram for circuit assembly
Draw pathways on circuit diagrams displaying both conventional current and electron flow
Label polarities across components
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Explain basic atomic theory as it applies to electronics
Assessment Strategies
Written product, drawing
Criteria
Explain the differences between conductors, insulators, and semi-conductors
Draw a two dimensional atomic model, labeling all of its component parts
List the most common materials used as insulators and conductors
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Assemble a basic electrical circuit
Assessment Strategies
Skill demonstration
Criteria
Select components for circuit assembly by interpreting schematic diagrams
Verify circuit switching components are open prior to circuit assembly
Measure voltage, current, and resistance of an open electrical circuit
Follow safety guidelines
Define ground types when observing schematic diagrams
Measure voltage and current of a closed electrical circuit
Choose correct circuit protection safety devices for installation from supplied information
Assemble basic circuit, and confirm operation according to supplied criteria
Explain the purpose of source, load, complete path and control device
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Examine electrical resistance, resistor types, and resistor characteristics
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Identify fixed resistor component values, tolerances, and reliability that use the EIA color code standard
Select both fixed and variable resistors based on their rated power dissipation value
Determine resistance values by the use of an ohmmeter
Describe variable and auto-variable resistors, include the types available for each
Recognize the linear relationships of resistors
Discuss typical failures that occur with all types of resistors
Recognize resistance as it applies to wire and other conductive surfaces
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Measure electrical quantities
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Measure voltage, current, and resistance with analog and digital multimeters
Use an oscilloscope to obtain DC/AC voltage readings in various circuits
Use frequency counting instrumentation on various unknown frequency generating sources
Determine the appropriate probe for instrumentation-to-circuit/component interfacing
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Analyze voltage, current, resistance and power relationships using Ohm's and Watt's Laws
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Calculate for a value of voltage, current, or resistance when two of the three are known
Calculate for power when at least two of the following are known: voltage, current, and resistance
Solve circuit models for any other unit, given a value for voltage, current, or resistance and the power
Specify power output in horsepower
Compare horsepower to power input
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Explain Kirchhoff’s Voltage, and Current Laws
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Apply Kirchhoff's Voltage Law to series circuits containing multiple resistive values and voltage sources
Apply Kirchhoff's Current Law to PRCs containing multiple resistive values and current sources
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Analyze series and parallel resistive circuits
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Identify a series resistive circuit containing a multiple number of resistors
Identify a parallel resistive circuit (PRC) containing a multiple number of resistors
Discuss the need for resistive models and circuit design equivalents
Use Ohm's Law and Watt's Law to obtain all quantities in both series and parallel circuit
Calculate multiple resistor circuits for their single ohmic equivalent
Apply Kirchhoff's Voltage Law
Use series circuits as voltage dividers and relate to actual working examples
Apply Kirchhoff's Current Law
Use parallel circuits as current dividers and relate to actual working examples
Analyze parallel resistive circuits using conductance
Confirm calculated values with actual circuits
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Analyze combination series and parallel resistive circuits
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Identify series - parallel circuit relationships from schematics of resistive networks
Use circuit simplification techniques to simplify component models
Determine the change in a series - parallel circuit when loaded with one additional resistive component
Diagnose the effect that is placed on a circuit when loaded with circuit measuring instruments
Confirm calculated values with computer simulation software for series - parallel circuits
Differentiate the nodes, branches, and loops in complex series - parallel resistive networks
Calculate all circuit parameters for all nodes and branches of series - parallel resistive circuit models
Assemble combinatorial series - parallel circuits to quantify theoretical results
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Examine AC voltage and the characteristics of AC voltage sources
Assessment Strategies
Written product and/or exam
Criteria
Recognize the most common AC voltage sources used in electronic design
Calculate the relationship between frequency and period for a complete AC source time cycle
Compare a sinusoidal waveform to a circle in terms of area, radians, degrees, and angular velocity
Compute standard instantaneous values and average values for sinusoids
Discriminate multiple coherent sinusoids for phase, leading, and lagging
Calculate for all variables of AC sourced resistive circuits using Ohm's and Watt's Laws
Relate an effective value of an AC voltage source to an equivalent DC voltage source
Use appropriate instrumentation to measure magnitude, phase, and frequency of AC voltages sources