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May 09, 2025
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2025-2026 College Catalog
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ATT 110 - Introduction to Avionics 6 Contact Hours, 4.5 Credits 3.75 lec 2.25 lab periods
Overview of the evolution of modern avionics. Includes the role and responsibilities of the avionics technician. Also includes: electrical safety; aircraft power distribution systems; data bus concepts; signal amplification; RF physics and radio theory; ESD and test equipment; and digital logic applications.
Information: Students must either have an FAA Airframe license or complete a knowledge interview with the Avionics faculty.
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Recall basic electronic and avionics principles
- Describe operating principles of airframe electrical systems and instrumentation
- Demonstrate proficiency in using various electrical measuring equipment.
Outline:
- History of Avionics and Roles of the Avionics Technician
- Test Equipment Used in Avionics
- Review of Electrical Principles
- Direct current
- Resistance circuits
- Voltage dividers
- Component Identification
- Review of Electrical Principles
- Alternating current
- Capacitors
- Inductors
- Time constants
- Resonance
- Digital Electronics
- Avionics Instrument Systems
- Aircraft Monitoring Principles
- Airspeed
- Altitude
- System health
- Display systems
- Built-in test
- Flight computers
- Aircraft Flight Control Principles
- Servo control
- AHARS
- PWM
- Serial communication protocols
- Aircraft Communication Principles
- Radio frequency electronics
- Amplitude modulation
- Frequency modulation
- The superheterodyne
- Aircraft Navigation Principles
- Radar theory
- Reflected radiation
- Aircraft Fuel System Principles
- Resistance sensors
- Capacitive sensors
- Level sensors
- Collision Avoidance and Weather System Principles
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