First Day on Basic Electronic Repair Course

The three tech's from Malaysian Airport Technologies that attending my basic electronic course today have little or no experience in electronic troubleshooting but have knowledge in IT support. Two of them have a diploma in computer science and the other one with diploma in engineering. The topic that i covered was safety, fixing fluorescent lamp, ohms law, series-parallel circuit, understanding analog-digital multimeter, ac-dc circuit, resistor, variable resistor, fuses and LED. I could see that they are happy of learning something new like be able to calculate the resistor code and using the right way to check a resistor. I still could remember when i was studying diploma course on the subject of resistance and ohms law- even after few weeks there's still no chance to 'hands on' on how to distinguish between a good and a bad resistor. Well, in order to complete the course you have no choice other than to calculate and memorizing the formula. In this basic electronic course i don't emphasize too much on calculation, i give them more practical and exposing them to the real world of troubleshooting and repair of electronic equipment-afterall troubleshooting electronic is fun!