TAFE NSW 366 Electronic Technology Adv Diploma- ????

I would suggest that if you don't need the piece of paper then only some of the modules will be of interest, there will be maths, more maths and other units with interesting names which turn out to be maths again.

get a list of all the modules and post them here.

Don't tell me. They teach maths at TAFE? I'd never had guessed it. :P Last part time lecturing I did at TAFE (Electronics), the average idiot student couldn't work out anything without a calculator. Even then they seem to get it wrong.

It would appear that even approximating the answer (as so to gauge what to expect the calculator to work it out to be) is beyond most school leavers. :-(

Sad really. Especially when you have something simple like a circuit with two series resistors. One is 100 ohms, the other 220 ohms. The applied voltage (end to end) across the network is 10 volts. Calculate the expected voltage drop across the 100 ohm resistor. You get answers like 5 volts.

So what sort of maths do they teach at TAFE these days. Fibbonachi (Fibonacci) sequences?

Cheers, Alan

Late 90's and I did some surveying subjects as part of an Ass Dip Civil Engineering and the course should have been called "Something" with Casio Calculators. They basically taught the students how to do the calculations with a Casio calculators. It was even examinable.

Rather funny for me because I'm too used to HP calcs and RPN {:-), so I just had to convert everything.

My wife occassionally helps the neighbourhood kids (primary & high school) with their maths. I just have to leave before I say anything. Wild, erratic guesses all the time.

Basically, most of these kids do not know their times table, and they are continually hung up on that. So when something else is taught, they are screwing around wasting all their efforts around trying to do a simple calculations and not learning the other stuff.

err, I was actually interested in doing some of the maths (again) to gently get the brain working. It has been about 15 years since I last did any serious study. The problem is going to be "wait a minute, you have a maths exemption from previous study" {:-)

All I've done in the last three years is exams that consisted of 6 multiple choice questions (4 options).

It actually took 2 years to get some one to finally supply a full list of possible modules (you then have to find a college offering the module), but it is too long to transcribe all 6 pages.

Oten (correspondence) only offers a few useful subjects and lots of engineering management, quality management, job seeking, negotiation, etc options.

What I was trying to determine was if I stood a chance of convincing the actual TAFE college offering the other subjects to allow me to enrol, and work at my own pace, without having to attend each week. I know it will depend on the subject, but surely there must be more subjects than what Oten offers.

e.g.

6032G Control programming style 6032B Industrial computer systems 7761AU Communication fundamentals (english or data) 7761R Data communications 8271S Microprocessor fundamentals 7763K Electronic software tools.

They are the Group 1 Core Modules that Oten does not offer.

On the other hand, there are 22 technician level subjects you can do that include TV (10 subjects), VCR (5 subjects), computer monitors, camcorders and PCB (2 subjects; design & fab) which could be practical and worth attending.

Geez Terry, Your showing your age saying things like RPN. I remember the old HP calulator with the red LED (IIRC) displays. They may well have been VFD, my memory is bad.

These days i am not sure if i could use a clculator. Win calc maybe, but Excel and mathcad and c take all the fun out of it.

go in and ask about which modules they offer as flexable learning

for example: 6032B Industrial computer systems

1 or 2 classes in each of:

ms word ms access ms excel ms powerpoint ms frontpage

not very indepth in the short time allowed but easy to do at home

Hello Terry,

OK. Some of the subject names and numbers are familiar

6032G - Control Programming Style. This was a basic introduction to programming a PC in DOS using the programming language 'C'. C++ was offered as an advanced course!

6032B - Industrial Computer Systems. This is a introduction to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel for engineering students. There was also a bit DOS and some shell programming.

7761AU - Communication Fundamentals. This was a basic communications course. It brushed on AM and FM communication, antenna's, spectrum and others... Not very in depth.

8271S - Microprocessor Fundamentals. This started out as an introduction to digital (Gates and stuff) but very quickly moved to a specific microprocess and examined its architecture and instruction set. Not bad.

7763K - Electronic Software Tools. Have a feeling this is Mathematica. I know that I did the course but I don't have any notes on my PC. This gives me the feeling that this is that subject. I simply could not justify buying the software package for home use just to get through the subject, hence no notes.

Hope this helps! James

Muchly, thanks guys. That definitely give me some information to barter with. In the past I've politely said "It is too basic, I just prefer to demonstrate my compentency by a project. what do you want?"

All thats taught in the Surveying subjects at tafe these days is RPN with the HPs these days.

Adam