A career in Electronics Technology offers a vast array of ever-increasing opportunity to graduates. The electronics field has become a highly competitive and challenging environment in which to work. Technically diverse companies, dedicated to the design, manufacturing and integration of complex products, services and systems, may include any of the following: computer technologies, measurement and instrumentation calibration, medical devices, telecommunication networks, automated robotics and control systems, audio, and video. Often such technologies may exist independently, or in some other complex integrated form, borrowing bits and pieces of each to create a functionally new, integrated system. The developmental possibilities often appear endless as more and more high-tech systems integrate and converge.
The daily job of an electronics technician may often take the form of a design laboratory technician, testing and fabricating circuits; or as a manufacturing maintenance technician, building and testing product or servicing the assembly line; or as a customer service technician, dedicated to on-site.
Customer service calls; or as an in-house repair technician, performing detailed troubleshooting and failure analysis on products.
An electronics technician must also be a skilled communicator, proficient in the language of technical documentation, and functionally able to organize and develop comprehensive status or service reports for supervisors and managers. An electronics technician represents a multifaceted individual, one who can effectively analyze, organize, and communicate the results of their day-to-day tasks to others.
Is a career as an electronics technician right for me?
Electronics technicians are people who have a natural interest in how things work. They're good at taking things apart and putting them back together.
If the following qualities describe you, Electronics Technology might be a good career choice:
* Like working with your hands
* Good at problem solving and troubleshooting
* Enjoy doing research
* Proficient in basic math
* Detail oriented
* Good communicator
About Our Programs
We offer day, evening and online courses to fit almost any schedule. Depending on your career objectives and time constraints, you can pursue a diploma in Electronics Fundamental and Electronics Technology, an Associate of Applied Technology in Electronics Technology, or a certificate in Telecommunications Servicing and Electronics Technician. Each qualifies you for a variety of entry level technician positions.
We also currently have a joint degree program with Gainesville State College in which you can earn your diploma or degree here at Lanier Tech and then transfer to GSC to work on an associate or a bachelor’s degree. For more information on this program, please see the
GSC website.
For more information on the Electronics Program, please contact
NMatheson@LanierTech.edu . I will be happy to assist you and look forward to working with you!
