INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

399 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS (Project Lead the Way)

Length of Course:  One year

Credit Granted:  One-half per semester

Prerequisite:  Completed Algebra I and currently enrolled in a mathematics course

Offered to:  Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors

Digital Electronics is a course that introduces to applied digital logic, a key element of careers in engineering and engineering technology.  This course explores the smart circuits found in watches, calculators, video games, and computers.  Students use industry standard problems, export their designs to a printed circuit auto-routing program that generates printed circuit boards, and use appropriate components to build their designs.  Students use mathematics and science in solving real-world engineering problems.  This course covers several topics, including analog and digital fundamentals, number systems and binary addition, logic gates and functions, Boolean algebra and circuit design, and decoders, multiplexers and de-multiplexers.