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Career Outlook
 
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Telecommunications Technology graduate, you could have a variety of job responsibilities, from installing and testing to troubleshooting and repairing communications systems. Telecommunications technicians also work with cable television equipment, radio equipment, control towers, powerhouses and substations. Graduates hold job titles such as telephone technician, telecommunications technician, broadcast engineer, installer, switch technician, fiber installer, microwave technician, fiber optics technician, radio communications technician, cellular technician and wireless data transmission technician.
 
Employers want technicians who can:
  • Proficiently install, test and repair equipment and outside plant facilities;
  • Understand and apply basic scientific concepts;
  • Perform their duties with minimal supervision; and
  • Learn new information on their own.
Industry Standards:
TSTC has conferred more associate degrees than any public two-year college in the nation in the Engineering-related Technologies/Technicians category and in the state of Texas in Communication and Information Sciences and Support Services category, according to June 2009 edition of "Community College Week" magazine.
 
 

 

 
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