Electronics Design for Manufacturing and Production. 3 credits, 4 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ( ECET 205 or ECE 271 ) and ( ECET 211 or ECE 252 ). This course teaches the fundamental skills required to design and manufacture electrical systems on printed circuit boards. The fundamental skills of electronics CAD are taught along with industry standards for schematic designations, engineering change orders, component packaging, simulation, and verification. Students are taught basic and advanced topics in PCB construction, analysis, and layout including auto-routing with a focus on through hole and surface mount technology, impedance control, heat dissipation, interconnects, panelization techniques, and production specific features and designations. Manufacturing files and outputs are studied emphasizing the necessary considerations for mass production, testing, component selection, stencil designs, solder composition, and reliability concerns.