Title: Digital Electronics / Electronics Technology / Home
Headings: Technology Center of DuPage
Technology Center of DuPage
Hear students talk about the program!
Fundamentals of Analog & Digital Electronics

Content: Instructor: Mark Lindberg

CURRICULUM TOPICS
Digital Electronics (DE) -- one semester course in the Pathway to Engineering course sequence
Analyze, design, and build your own digital electronic circuits, the technology that powers your cell phone, MP3 player, tablet, camera, and HD television. The demand for greater signal speed, storage capacity, and applications drives industry’s need for creative problem-solvers and innovators like you! Start with terminology, communication methods, engineering standards, analog/digital circuits, soldering, and troubleshooting techniques. Then learn digital theory fundamentals: combination logic, sequential logic, process and control experiments, and microcontrollers. You will design and build a variety of projects: a random number generator (think “random quote of the day”), a tollbooth gate, a garage door opener’s circuit, and a 60-second timer circuit.l Before you know it, you will be diving into robotics: programming microchips and an Arduino microcontroller using VEX systems
Digital Electronics (DE), one of the specialized courses in TCD's PLTW Pathway to Engineering course sequence. This is a high school level course for students interested in electronics.