ERIC Number: ED350427
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 249
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Avionics Maintenance Technology Program Guide.
Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Vocational Education.
This program guide presents the avionics maintenance technology curriculum for technical institutes in Georgia. The general information section contains the following for both the diploma program and the associate degree program: purpose and objectives; program description, including admissions, typical job titles, and accreditation and certification; and curriculum model, including standard curriculum sequence and lists of courses. The next three sections contain the courses: general core courses for the diploma program (English, algebraic concepts, trigonometry, and interpersonal relations/professional development) and for the associate degree program (principles of economics, composition and rhetoric I, college algebra and trigonometry, and introductory physics and psychology); fundamental technical courses (aircraft maintenance regulations, aircraft applied sciences, sheet metal structures, assembly and rigging, aviation physics, basic and advanced electronics, and introduction to microcomputers); and specific technical courses (fluid power and landing gear systems, utility, aircraft electrical, and navigation systems, microprocessors, avionics maintenance practices, aircraft logic, aircraft communication, navigation, and flight director and autopilot systems). Each course consists of the following: a course overview (description, competency areas, prerequisites, credit hours, contact hours); course outline with student objectives and class and lab hours; and resource list. Two appendices are included: tools and equipment list and tool kit for avionics maintenance technicians. (NLA)
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Aviation Mechanics, Aviation Technology, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Electrical Systems, Electronics, Employment Potential, Entry Workers, Fluid Mechanics, Job Skills, Microcomputers, Navigation, Postsecondary Education, Program Guides, Sheet Metal Work, State Curriculum Guides, Technical Education, Technical Institutes, Two Year Colleges
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Georgia State Dept. of Technical and Adult Education, Atlanta.
Authoring Institution: Georgia Univ., Athens. Dept. of Vocational Education.
Identifiers - Location: Georgia
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A