The Electronics Technicians Association focus on skills, not degrees. It has expanded its education program to include virtual learning. — ETA photo KNOW YOUR INDUSTRY continued from previous page
technology fields, such as fiber optics, smart home, renewable energy, customer service, biomedical, information technology, wireless communications, and industrial. You can find ETA-certified professionals working for many well-known companies like Motorola Solutions, Google, Disney, and Verizon, not to mention the U.S. Armed Forces. ETA’s stance is this: While book knowledge is important, if employees are unable to apply this knowledge in real-world scenarios, what use is it? [For a look at a trend toward embedding professional credentials within bachelor’s degree programs, see this month’s “Training & education,” page 12] Accredited by the International Certification Accreditation Council, ETA certification and FCC commercial license exams are also reimbursable from the Veteran’s Administration.
Those interested can explore certification pathways, find a test site, post a résumé, and join the thousands of students, professionals, and institutions worldwide who have become involved in the not-for-profit professional trade organization for electronics and related industries. Membership is not required to take an ETA examination. Keeping up with the times, the organization has pushed remote learning to the forefront of its curriculum this year, partnering with ExamRoom.AI to offer AI-integrated online exam proctoring solutions. ETA will also pay for the remote proctoring service as a thank you to the trade association’s customers. To take a remotely proctored ETA certification exam through ExamRoom.AI, all remote examinees must have a working web cam and microphone. Follow the procedure on the company’s website, www.eta-i.org, to get started. The association also announced in December that its primary trade show, the ETA International Education Forum, will be moved from March to September of 2021. The forum is part of the International Wireless Communications Expo every year. Education Forum at IWCE 2021 will now take place Sept. 27-30 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. Conference attendees who paid to attend the 2020 live event will automatically have access to attend the 2021 event in the fall with a pass of equal value. The availability to use these credits towards other digital opportunities will be announced in the near future, ETA says. — Charlie Barks EA
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