Telecommunications Technology/Technician
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or electromagnetic systems. Telecommunication occurs when the exchange of information between communication participants includes the use of technology. It is transmitted either electrically over physical media, such as cables, or via electromagnetic radiation. Such transmission paths are often divided into communication channels which afford the advantages of multiplexing. Since the Latin term communicatio is considered the social process of information exchange, the term telecommunications is often used in its plural form because it involves many different technologies.
Early means of communicating over a distance included visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs. Other examples of pre-modern long-distance communication included audio messages such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. 20th- and 21st-century technologies for long-distance communication usually involve electrical and electromagnetic technologies, such as telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, networks, radio, microwave transmission, fiber optics, and communications satellites.
A revolution in wireless communication began in the first decade of the 20th century with the pioneering developments in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909, and other notable pioneering inventors and developers in the field of electrical and electronic telecommunications. These included Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse (inventors of the telegraph), Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone), Edwin Armstrong and Lee de Forest (inventors of radio), as well as Vladimir K. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth (some of the inventors of television).
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Matching Telecommunications Technology/Technician Colleges
Southern Methodist University
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $46,594 average out-state tuition; $46,594 average in-state tuition |
Pace University-New York
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $42,354 average out-state tuition; $42,354 average in-state tuition |
Rochester Institute of Technology
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $39,506 average out-state tuition; $39,506 average in-state tuition |
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Four or more years; Public; $13,920 average out-state tuition; $6,530 average in-state tuition |
Mitchell Technical Institute
At least 2 but less than 4 years; Public; $3,648 average out-state tuition; $3,648 average in-state tuition |
Arapahoe Community College
At least 2 but less than 4 years; Public; $14,234 average out-state tuition; $3,469 average in-state tuition |
Clark College
Four or more years; Public; $8,723 average out-state tuition; $3,370 average in-state tuition |
Scholarships for Telecommunications Technology/Technician Majors
Edith Nourse Rogers STEM ScholarshipU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
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award Up to $30,000 |
deadline Varies |
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Trustey Family Scholars ProgramUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2024 |
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Stinson Scholars ProgramUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2024 |
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Besio Family ScholarshipUniversity of Notre Dame |
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award $25,000 |
deadline January 01, 2024 |
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Engineering Honors Scholarship - Greenville UniversityGreenville University |
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award $20,500 |
deadline Varies |
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Science Post Graduate Scholarship FundNative Forward Scholars Fund |
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award Up to $30,000 |
deadline June 01, 2023 |
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UCF Astronaut ScholarshipUniversity of Central Florida (UCF) |
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award Up to $15,000 |
deadline May 31, 2023 |
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Alice P. Gast STEM ScholarshipLehigh University |
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award $12,500 |
deadline January 15, 2024 |
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SOLV Energy Women in Solar ScholarshipSolar Energy International (SEI) |
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award $10,000 |
deadline Varies |
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Joseph P. and Helen T. Cribbins ScholarshipAssociation of the United States Army |
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award $10,000 |
deadline May 31, 2023 |
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