ProgramCIP 15.0305

Telecommunications Technology/Technician

A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills to help design and implement telecommunications systems. Includes instruction in communications protocol, data networking, digital compression algorithms, digital signal processing, Internet access, object-oriented and relational databases, and programming languages.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Wireless Communications Technician, Telecommunications Engineering Technology/Technician.