Electronics Engineering Technology
Why Electronics Engineering Technology (EET)?
How many high-tech devices do you use in a day? An iPod? A cell phone? A personal computer? All of these things operate with electronics components. Electronics engineers have just tapped the surface in designing technologies that impact our lives, which makes the field of electronics engineering technology so exciting. In fact, according to Job Futures Canada, with technology rapidly advancing in all areas of the research, manufacturing, medical, communications, security and consumer product markets, the demand for jobs in engineering technology is expected to increase through 2007.
Now you can earn your bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering Technology from DeVry in just 3 years and prepare yourself to be at the forefront of developing and implementing uses for electronics no one has ever even imagined.
Why DeVry for Electronics Engineering Technology?
For students seeking the most comprehensive, hands-on and career-oriented EET degree program, DeVry will give you the best advantage. Here's why:
- Recognized leader. For over 35 years, DeVry has been at the forefront of awarding bachelor's degrees in electronics engineering technology. In fact, DeVry graduates make up about half of all electronics engineering technology graduates in North America.
- Employer approved. DeVry works with electronics industry leaders to design programs that produce graduates who meet their needs. Plus, DeVry provides students more of the communications and teamwork skills that today's employers seek.
- Career-focused education. Only DeVry offers an accelerated 3-year bachelor's degree, application-based learning in up-to-date electronics labs, laptop use throughout your course of study, program-specific scholarships, and multiple robotics and engineering design teams and organizations.
- Latest techniques and tools. DeVry students develop their electronics skills using the tools and techniques currently used in the electronics industry. This includes National Instruments' ELVIS (Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite) technology, which allows students to build circuits at home, using their personal computer.
- Successful graduates. For the year ending with the October '07 graduates, 68% of Canadian DeVry business operations graduates were employed in their field. This includes graduates who actively pursued and obtained employment and those who were already employed in education-related careers within 180 days of graduation. These graduates enjoy a salary averaging $36,181 (Canadian dollars).
Program-specific accreditation
The Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) and Electronic Systems Technology (EST) programs are accredited by the Canadian Technology Accreditation Board (CTAB). CTAB is a standing committee of the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT). The board was created by CCTT in 1982 to promote excellence in technical education across Canada by furthering the standards used to certify individual technicians and technologists and by the National Accreditation Program, which is used to evaluate applied science and engineering technology programs. Working in partnership with CCTT and provincial constituent member associations, such as The Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta (ASET), the board fulfills its mission through the National Technology Accreditation program.
Organized to establish technician and technologist as professions, all provincial constituent members set standards for professional conduct and practice under the National Transferability Agreement governed by CCTT. ASET, as a constituent member of CCTT, is the official certifying body for graduates from accredited programs, such as DeVry Calgary's EET and EST programs. DeVry graduates are eligible for certification as technicians or technologists after two years of appropriate work experience.
