Be at the leading edge of modern engineering with your knowledge of electronics. You'll learn hot topics such as industrial and digital electronics, industrial instrumentation and communication electronics. Leading electronics engineers and academics present the program.
Join the next generation of electronics technicians and embrace an intensive yet enjoyable career by embarking on this comprehensive and practical engineering career pathway.
Electronics technicians often work in specialist areas, such as biomedical engineering, telecommunications, office equipment or domestic appliance maintenance, industrial instrumentation, advanced manufacturing, aeronautical engineering.
The aim of this program is to provide you with core electrical engineering skills so that you can grasp these opportunities to enhance your career and to benefit your employer
How to apply
For more information, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Sisipho Phakmisa on 011 024 5520.
To apply for a place in the next scheduled start date, please complete the enrollment application form contained in the program brochure.
Career opportunities
After completion of the theoretical part of the National Certificate at level 6, the student will be employed as a learner technician for the period determined by the employer - a minimum of 24 months. After completion of the training period, the student may be appointed as a technician.
People working in the electronics engineering fields require specialised technical skills and knowledge in order to meet the requirements of continually changing environment of the various industrial sectors. Students will acquire the technical knowledge and skills that are required in small and medium businesses as well as provide access and mobility into higher-level more specialised occupations.
Qualifying learning at N6 should be able to find employment in the sectors below:
- Radio and TV Technician
- Technician: Office Equipment, Photocopier and Fax machine
- Telecommunications Technician
- Instrumentation Technician
- Domestic Appliance Technician
- Cellphone Repairs
- Car Radio installation
- TV & Aerial Installation
Comprehensive eBooks and Associated Documentation
In addition to the course fee, you will need to purchase textbooks for most subjects in the program. Included with the course fee you will receive four of our up-to-date technical eBooks to add to your library. All together, these reference books contain hundreds of pages of valuable know-how distilled from years of experience in presenting technical training throughout the world.
- Fundamentals of Industrial Electronics
- Practical Process Control
- Digital Signal Processing
- Best Practice in Industrial Data Communications
Subjects for each level:
| N4 (Any of the 4 subjects below) |
|---|
| 1. Mathematics |
| Equations, Manipulation and Word Problems |
| Determinants |
| Complex Numbers |
| Trigonometry |
| Sketch Graphs |
| Limits and Differentiation |
| Integration |
| Switchgear and Protective Devices |
| 2. Industrial Electronics |
|---|
| Alternating Current Theory |
| Direct Current Theory |
| Semi-Conductors (Diodes) |
| Power Supplies |
| Transistors and Amplifier Devices |
| Operational Amplifiers |
| Eletctronic Power Control |
| Transducer |
| Testing Equipment |
| 3. Digital Electronics |
|---|
| Number Systems and Codes |
| Logic Circuits and Systems |
| Basic Treatment of Interfacing Elements and Applications |
| 4. Communication Electronics |
|---|
| Network Theorems |
| Vectors |
| Frequency Response |
| Modulation |
| Demodulation |
| Communication Systems |
| Radiowave Propogation |
| 5. Industrial Instruments |
|---|
| Pressure and Vacuum Measurements, Including Electrical Methods |
| Level Measurement |
| Flow Measurement |
| Temperature Measurement |
| Telemetering |
| Automatic Control |
| N5 (Any of the 4 subjects below) |
|---|
| 1. Mathematics |
| Limits and Continuity |
| Differentiation |
| Application and Differentiation |
| Integration Techniques |
| Application of the Definite Integral |
| Differential Equations |
| 2. Industrial Electronics |
|---|
| Alternating Current Theory |
| Direct Current Theory |
| Semi-Conductors (Diodes) |
| Power Supplies |
| Transistors and Amplifier Devices |
| Operational Amplifier |
| Electronic Power Control |
| Transducer |
| Testing Equipment |
| 3. Communication Electronics |
|---|
| Resonating Circuits |
| Mutual Inductance |
| First Order Lag and Lead Coupling Circuit Response |
| Basics of 4 Terminal Passive Transmission Paths |
| Basics of Radio Communication: A. Radiation of RF by means of an Antenna B. Modulation C. Demodulation D. Block Diagrams |
| N6 (Any of the 4 subjects below) |
|---|
| 1. Mathematics |
| Differentiation |
| Integration Techniques |
| Partial Fractions |
| Differential Equations |
| Applications of the Definite Integral |
| Applications where Differentiation and Integration Techniques are Combined |
| 2. Industrial Electronics |
|---|
| Transients |
| Transducers |
| Ultrasonic |
| X-rays and Radio Activity |
| Automatic Inspection and Testing |
| Non-Destructive Testing |
| Electronic Safety Devices |
| Thyristor Power Supplies |
| Electronic Power Control |
| Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) |
| 3. Digital Electronics |
|---|
| Number Systems and Codes |
| Logic Circuits and Systems |
| Interfacing Elements and Applications |
| 4. Communication Electronics |
|---|
| Alternators and Filtera |
| Transmission Lines |
| Antennas |
| Noise |
| Modulation and Demodulation |
| 5. Industrial Instrument |
|---|
| Emission Spectroscopy |
| Gas Analysers |
| Galorimetry |
| Chromatography |
| Automatic Control |
| Control Values |
| Process Reaction |
| Instrumentation of a Plant |
| Explosion Hazard and Intrinsic Safety |
| 6. Control Systems |
|---|
| A. General Theory on Control Systems |
| Block Diagram Algebra |
| Transient Response |
| Bode Diagrams |
| Practical Control Systems |
| Root-Locus Diagrams |
| B. Practical Control Systems |
| Transducers |
| Electronic Systems |
| Electrical Machines and Systems |
| Hydraulic Systems |
| Pneumatic Systems |
| Test and Testing Equipment |
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