Electronics

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Program Overview

What is Electronics?

Electronics majors learn the basic skills needed to operate, maintain, install, and repair electrical and electronic equipment. Electronics technology provides both theoretical and hands-on learning opportunities for students to develop a thorough understanding of the electronic technology field.

The electronics program at Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) offers associate degrees and certificates for a student training to become an electronics technician. Such an individual will find employment in a wide range of electronics-based areas, be they medical, automotive, communications, consumer, instrumentation, military, radio and TV broadcasting, computer, avionics, and industrial fields. On the job, one works to build prototypes and install, maintain, repair, and configure electronics equipment. LAVC is the only community college in Southern California offering a specialty in Biomedical Instrumentation.

Contact
Chairperson
Rebecca Stein
Phone
(818) 947-2538
Email
@email
Office Location
AHS
Office Hours
 

Department

Applied Technology

Pathway

Manufacturing, Electronics, and Construction

Degrees & Certificates

Click below to find out about the various Electronics degrees and certificates.

The AS degree in Electronics can serve as a basis for further study in electronics at the bachelor’s degree level. Various California State Colleges and Universities offer four-year degrees in fields such as applied technology and engineering technology. However, since BS electrical engineering (EE) degrees require electronics courses to be calculus based, and electronics courses at LAVC are not calculus based, students intending to transfer in Electrical Engineering majors might consider the Engineering degree.

Electronics (AS)

The biomedical programs prepare students to repair and maintain a wide variety of electronic apparatus used in the medical field, working as technicians in hospitals and for equipment manufacturers. Some of these positions are: Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET); Field Service Engineer; Medical Equipment Sales Engineer; Clinical Laboratory Technician; and R & D Technician. The program prepares students to take the nationally offered Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) examination. The certificate can be the basis for continued study and attainment of the associate degree

Electronics: Biomedical Instrumentation (AS)

Electronics: Biomedical Instrumentation (Certificate)

The Electronics Technician certificate leads to positions such as: Electronics Technician; Field Service Technician; Field Service Engineer; Test Technician; Flight-line Technician; Broadcast Technician; Quality Control Technician; and Electronics Manufacturers Technician. (Estimated time of completion: two years.)

Electronics Technician (Certificate)

The Electronics Technology Certificate can lead to positions such as: Entry-level Electronics Technician; Electronics Assembler Technician; Electronics Supply Salesperson; and Test Technician Trainee. This certificate is designed to prepare the student to enter the electronics technician field as quickly as possible, with an estimated time of completion of one year.

Electronics Technology (Certificate)

Electronics Faculty

Name Contact Information

Jack Geer

@email

Jerzy Gorecki

@email

Ralph Krongold

@email
Sonia Naderi @email; 818-778-5869

George Panyarachun

panyarg@lavc.edu
Ron Reis @email
Luis Zaldana @email  

 

Electronics Faculty Profiles

Click below to find out more about our faculty.

Jack Geer photo
  • Courses taught – Electronics 20. 22, 54 
  • Interests – Finding new projects that are related to new technology 
  • Fun fact – I am into model railroading 

Ralph Krongold Photo
  • Courses taught – Electronics 4, 6

Sonia Naderi photo
  • Degree - PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Maine 

  • Courses taught – Electronics 2, 4, 6, 20, 22 

  • Areas of Interest - Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks 

  • Fun Fact: I love working out, cars, photography, and cooking. The ocean is my happy place. 

  • Pronouns: she/her

George Panyarachun photo
  • Courses taught - Electronics 34, 36, 38 

Ron Reis photo
  • Degree – BA in Electronics and MA in Social Science from CSULA 

  • Courses taught – Electronics 2. 4. 6 

  • Areas of interest – Electronics project building 

  • Fun fact - I like standup. I remember back in the late 1950s when I was a teenager, I could go into a convivence store with a quarter in my pocket and walk out with a coke and a candy bar. Today there are too many cameras! 

  • Pronouns – he/him 

Luis Zaldana photo
  • Degree – MS in Electrical Engineering from CSUN, MBA from CSU Monterey Bay 

  • Courses taught – Electronics 20, 22, 109 

  • Fun fact - Rappelled and Fast-Roped of a Helicopter, Parachuted of a C-130 Plane! 

Learn About Electronics Technology

CCC Video: Electronics Tech

Learn About Industrial Electronics

CCC Video: Industrial Electronics