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Courses - September 2025

Level 1

Course details

College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085

Description: This course introduces students to the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills needed for academic and workplace success. Students will analyse a variety of texts and apply the steps of planning, writing, and revising to produce writing that meets the expectations of selected audiences and purposes. The course prepares students for college-level writing tasks, research, and documentation by asking them to produce clear, informed, and purposeful documents relevant to both academic and professional contexts.
  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Conestoga 101
CON0101

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.
  • Hours: 1
  • Credits: 0
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Electronics Engineering Skills
EECE1200

Description: In this laboratory course, students build an electronic prototype product using skills acquired in this course and other courses in the first semester. Topics include: electronic and mechanical prototype assembly techniques, soldering, and troubleshooting.
  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Digital Electronics I
EECE1290

Description: This course introduces the student to the basic concepts of digital design mainly focused on combinational circuits. Topics covered include: intro to programmable logic and VHDL, number systems, logic gates, Boolean algebra and logic simplification, combinational logic, logic functions with combinational circuits.
  • Hours: 70
  • Credits: 5
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

DC Circuits
EECE1315

Description:

This course lays the foundation for all other courses in the program. It introduces the student to basic electrical concepts including atomic structure, electrical flow in conductors, electric and magnetic fields, the three basic electrical components: resistance, capacitance, and inductance, and how they interact, and circuits energized by direct current (DC) sources. Topics covered include: voltage and current sources; Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws, and other laws that relate resistance, capacitance, inductance, reactance, voltage, current, power, and energy; series, parallel, and combination circuits; and methods of analysis and network theorems.

  • Hours: 70
  • Credits: 5
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Mathematics I (Electronics)
MATH1117

Description: This course is oriented towards applications of mathematical theory and techniques to analyze and solve fundamental engineering problems. Topics covered include: basic algebraic operations, geometry, functions and graphs, trigonometric functions, systems of linear equations, factoring and fractions, quadratic equations, vectors, exponents and radicals, complex numbers, exponential and logarithmic functions.
  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Programming I
PROG1955

Description:

This course will introduce the student to the C programming language. Issues such as basic algorithm design, functions, arrays, pointers, file handling and data structure development are covered in this course.

  • Hours: 70
  • Credits: 5
  • Pre-Requisites:
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  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Level 2

Course details

Electronics I
EECE1047

Description: This course introduces students to the characteristics of diode, bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and field effect transistor (FET) semiconductor devices and their applications in basic electronic circuits. Topics include: basic semiconductor theory, diode static and dynamic characteristics, introduction to different types of diodes, diode clipping and clamping circuits, rectification and linear DC power supplies, Zener diode voltage regulator design; BJT and FET characteristics, basic transistor circuits, DC biasing methods; transistor switching operation and its application to digital switching circuits, introduction to small-signal transistor models; single stage amplifier design, AC and DC load lines.
  • Hours: 70
  • Credits: 5
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1310 OR EECE1315
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Digital Electronics II
EECE1195

Description: This course introduces students to the basic concepts of digital design mainly focused on sequential circuits. Topics covered include: additional VHDL topics, latches, flip flops, timers, counters, shift registers, integrated circuit technologies, and introduction to digital signal processing.
  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1057 OR EECE1290
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

AC Circuits
EECE1587

Description:

This course studies components and circuits energized by alternating current (AC) sources. Topics covered include: AC fundamentals, Impedance, power in AC circuits, AC series-parallel circuits, methods of AC analysis, AC network theorems, resonance, filters and Bode plot, transformer and coupled circuits.

  • Hours: 70
  • Credits: 5
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1310 OR EECE1315
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Mathematics II (Electronics)
MATH1120

Description: This course is oriented towards the direct application of mathematical techniques to electrical and electronic fundamentals. It covers determinants and matrices, inequalities, variation, sequences and the binomial theorem, trigonometry, plane analytic geometry, statistics, derivatives, integration, transcendental functions.
  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: MATH1117
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.
Electives: General Education
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Level 3

Course details

Electronics II
EECE2047

Description:

This course introduces students to integrated linear circuit devices and their applications in signal processing, and basic communication systems building blocks. Topics include operational amplifier characteristics and applications, amplifier Bode-plot frequency response analysis, active filters, power amplifiers, feedback amplifiers, oscillators, phototransistors and opto-isolators.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1045 OR EECE1047 AND EECE1585 OR EECE1587
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Microprocessors
EECE2325

Description:

This course introduces students to microprocessors, the main processing units of a computer system, and teaches them how to integrate them with other peripheral devices. Topics include: microprocessors architecture, instructions set, assembly language programming, memory, Input/Output, and Interrupts.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1195 AND PROG1955
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Digital Design
EECE3237

Description:

This course introduces students to advanced topics in digital system design, including Hardware Description Language (HDL), Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), simulation tools, synchronous sequential digital circuits design, finite state machine, and System on a Chip (SoC). Students will write many HDL codes for laboratory experiments and a project.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1195
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Computer Networking
EECE3255

Description:

This course is oriented towards main areas of knowledge and skills regarding both hardware and software required to design, set up, maintain and troubleshoot computer networks. Topics covered include: network topologies, OSI reference model, transmission media, data coding, modems, multiplexing, error control, wired and wireless LANs, Internet Protocols, internetworking devices, and circuit technologies.

  • Hours: 42
  • Credits: 3
  • Pre-Requisites: TCOM2035 OR TCOM2040
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Power Electronics
ELCN2040

Description:

This course covers the theory and operation of switching semiconductor devices (MOSFET, IGBT, GTO, SCR etc.) and introduces the essentials of analyses and design of power electronic circuits. Topics include AC-DC converters, DC-DC converters, diode and thyristor bridges, voltage-sourced converters, and typical control schemes for power converters. The course also discusses examples of industry applications of power electronics.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1047
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Electronics Lab
ELCN2060

Description:

In this laboratory course, students practically apply the knowledge and the skills gained in Electronics II course and Power Electronics course. Topics include feedback amplifiers, power amplifiers, active filters, oscillators, switched mode power supplies, and inverters

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1047
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Level 4

Course details

Embedded Systems
EECE2660

Description:

In this course, students learn how to design, implement, and troubleshoot a microcontroller based embedded system. Topics include: introduction to microcontrollers, in circuit programming, flash memory, assembly language, and C language programming, I/O programming, timer-counter programming, and interfacing keyboard, LCD, ADC, and DAC.

  • Hours: 56
  • Credits: 4
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE2045 OR EECE2047 AND EECE2325
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Printed Circuit Board Design
ELCN2070

Description:

In this course, students will learn the process of design and layout of a printed circuit board using industry standard tools. Topics include schematic capture, symbol and footprint creation, building and maintaining libraries, and PCB layout. Signal integrity practices will be observed throughout the courses.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: ELCN2060
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Principles of Telecommunication Systems
TCOM2040

Description:

This course introduces students to the elementary concepts in electronic communication. Topics covered include: an overview of communications systems, signal and noise, linear system analysis, amplitude and angle modulation and demodulation, and digital communications techniques and systems.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1585 OR EECE1587
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Transmission Lines
TCOM2065

Description:

In this course, students learn how to design, implement, and troubleshoot a microcontroller based embedded system. Topics include: introduction to microcontrollers, in circuit programming, flash memory, assembly language, and C language programming, I/O programming, timer-counter programming, and interfacing keyboard, LCD, ADC, and DAC.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1585 OR EECE1587
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.

Telecommunications Lab
TCOM2090

Description:

In this laboratory course, students practically apply the knowledge and the skills gained in Principles of Telecommunication Systems course and Transmission Lines course. Topics include modulation, demodulation, harmonics of periodical signals, reflectometry, and standing wave.

  • Hours: 28
  • Credits: 2
  • Pre-Requisites: EECE1587
  • CoRequisites:
  • Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: Not available at this time.
Electives: General Education
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options

Please note:

Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs are based on the most recent available data through the Conestoga Campus Store.

Program outcomes

  1. Modify and prepare electrical and electronics drawings, layouts and reports using appropriate technology to communicate accurate technical information and to assist in the completion of project requirements.
  2. Perform procedures to test electrical and/or electronic circuits, equipment and systems in accordance with relevant operational guidelines and standards.
  3. Assemble, modify, troubleshoot and install electronic circuits, equipment and systems in accordance with task requirements, functional specifications and relevant standards with guidance as required.
  4. Maintain and repair electronic equipment and systems in accordance with relevant operational guidelines.
  5. Assist with the purchase of electronic equipment, components and systems in accordance with codes, standards, task requirements, and functional specifications.
  6. Assemble, analyze and troubleshoot digital logic circuits, embedded systems, and programmable logic devices using industry specific software tools and programming languages to ensure their functional operation with guidance as required.
  7. Analyze and build circuits consisting of various components using industry specific tools, techniques and measurements to meet project objectives.
  8. Analyze and troubleshoot control systems using industry specific methods to optimize their operation.
  9. Troubleshoot, maintain and repair telecommunication systems in accordance with standards and guidelines to support their effective operation.
  10. Comply with health and safety guidelines and procedures in accordance with best practices and relevant regulations.
  11. Assist in implementing and conducting quality control and quality assurance programs and procedures in accordance with standards and guidelines
  12. Complete work in compliance with relevant legislation, established standards, codes, policies, procedures and regulations, and sustainability best practices and ethical principles.