ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN

also known as ...

"ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN",

"ROBOTICS TECHNICIAN"

2-year (Associates) Degree in :

Electronics Technology (ET), or

Electronics Engineering Technology (EET)

"Electronics Technicians build, program, configure, calibrate, repair, and maintain complex and expensive scientific and industrial (not consumer) electronic systems."

Here is the official description maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: ocos112.pdf

Electronics Technicians, or "ET's", can be found anywhere there is electronic equipment to be developed, tested, maintained, or repaired. For more information, see the U.S. Department of Labor web sites at http://www.acinet.org, and http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos112.htm. Another very good site is http://www.khake.com/page19.html .

ET's perform this work in a variety of industries such as

For more information about what Electronics Technicians do, watch this short (one and a half minutes, 15 MB) video.

Some Electronics Technicians concentrate on Robotics systems. For more information about these jobs, watch this short (just over one minute, 9 MB) video.