A Note from the Author

This manual is used at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY, for our ETAC of ABET accredited AAS program in Electrical Engineering Technology. I am indebted to my students and colleagues for their support and encouragement of this project. It was created out of a desire to offer a minimal cost lab manual for our students that covered the requisite material and made optimal use of our laboratory facilities. While it would have been possible to seek a traditional publisher for this work, as a long-time supporter and contributor to freeware and shareware computer software, I have decided instead to release this title using a Creative Commons non-commercial, share-alike license. I encourage others to make use of this manual for their own work and to build upon it. If you do add to this effort, I would appreciate a notification. Please note that the latest versions of all texts and manuals in both PDF and easily editable versions (odt) may be found at my MVCC site or on my mirror site, www.dissidents.com