Telecommunications Fiber Optic Engineering Technician - Technical Diploma

Program Outcomes

• Learn utility system safety terminology, definitions, and practices. Define safety responsibility, rules and regulations.
• Develop the knowledge, skills, process, and understanding of basic surveying principles, instruments in the field, making computations, and generating computerized maps.
• Demonstrate experience consistent with projects in industry. Students will learn how to field buried cable projects to aerial projects and also learn industry equipment that operates on these projects.
• Apply different methods of data collection and data management for Telecommunications projects.
• Carry out data transfer from field collection and creating a product using AutoCAD that a utility crew would use to place the communications facility.
• Apply skills to splice, test, and troubleshoot a fiber optic network in real-world scenarios from the main distribution node to the end node.
• Discuss the differences between analog and data transmissions.
• Ability to design and maintain industrial communications systems while applying underlying principles behind today's industrial communications systems.
• Analyze telecommunications policy and regulations and their impacts on the telecommunication markets with an emphasis on policies in developing countries and emerging markets but combines other multidisciplinary aspects related to technology, economics, and law.
• Carry out fiber optic network designs, project estimating, and project management to culminate the students knowledge of previous classes and fully understand how to deliver a successful fiber optic project from beginning to end.