UMA 1253 - Electronic Drawings and Schematics

Credit(s): 3

This course introduces the student to an essential skill in the field of electronic/electrical equipment maintenance, installation or modification: the ability to read and understand electrical ladder drawings, schematics and diagrams. This course covers several types of industrial control prints for a variety of different motor-driven processes, with an emphasis on the differences between type and the purposes and flow of each. Students will create schematic diagrams based on circuit descriptions and will learn to interpret schematic drawings in order to provide verbal or written circuit descriptions. (3,1,4)