THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
                         FACULTY SENATE 

Senate Document Number  3491S 
Date of Senate Approval    3/28/91

 
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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:   

         APC DOCUMENT #30:  Electronics Course Addition


A. Effective Date:  Fall Semester, 1991.

B. Delete:  PHYS 240 Digital Computer Electronics (2)
            An introduction to gates, flip-flops, counters, and
            elementary computer architecture.  Prerequisite: PHYS
            105, 222 or 231.

C. Add:     PHYS 310  Electronics (4)
            A study of analog and digital electronics, devices,
            and test equipment with laboratory.  Applications
            will focus on audio recording.  Prerequisites: PHYS
            231 or PHYS 222.

D. Impact:  PHYS 240 served music, computer science, and physics
            majors.  The impact on each group will be discussed
            below.

            The Music students were taking SCI 210 along with


            Digital Computer Electronics.  The new course that's
            proposed will combine the material of these two
            courses.  Therefore, two 2-credit hour courses in
            electronics will be dropped and one 4-hour course
            will be added.

            The Department of Computer Science has taken the
            component of PHYS 240 that is relevant to Computer
            Science majors and incorporated the material into
            CSCI 254.  The electronics component of 254 has been
            modified to suit the needs of Computer Science
            majors.  Computer Science electronics has moved away
            from simple TTL logic circuits to a more large-scale
            integration.  Therefore, Computer Science no longer
            has a need for PHYS 240.

            Physics students in the Applied Physics Program to
            can take the more inclusive Physics 310 (digital and
            analog) in place of the old PHYS 240.  The required
            number of hours for graduation changes from 126 to
            128 in the Applied Program.

            Supplies for PHYS 310 are equivalent in cost to the
            supplies for PHYS 240 so there is no budget change.

Rationale:  A single course covering digital - analog electronics
            will better serve physics and music majors than the
            current arrangement:  PHYS 240 and SCI 210.