Curriculum: A wireless literacy curriculum aimed at the diverse information needs of the many non-engineering professionals and managers who work for or with the companies involved in wireless. While these courses cover the technical issues surrounding the various wireless technologies, they do so from the high-level decision-making or support perspective.
Audience: The curriculum addresses the needs of a wide range of non-engineering audiences including, for example:
- Wireless operators and equipment vendors: Executives, human resources and recruiting, marketing and sales, customer service, finance, accounting, information technology, product development, and network deployment.
- Regulatory bodies: Those charged with formulating and implementing telecommunications regulatory policy.
- Investment and law firms: Financial analysts, investment bankers, and attorneys who are responsible for, follow, or specialize in the wireless industry.
- Management consultants: Whose clientele includes companies in the wireless industry.
Prerequisites: Other than any prerequisites specified by the individual courses, the curriculum does not stipulate any general prerequisites. Each course offering is adapted to the specific backgrounds and needs of a given audience. In addressing the needs of a particular group, we are prepared to–and often do–fine-tune or expand the content and duration of these courses.
| Curriculum |
Catalog Code |
Course Title |
Days |
| Industry |
X-WIRELESS101 |
Understanding Wireless: State-of-the-Art and Emerging 2.5G/3G Technologies |
2 |
| X-2.5/3G101 |
Understanding Emerging 2.5G/3G Technologies |
2 |
| X-EXECBRIEF |
Executive Technology Briefing |
2 |
| CD-W101 |
Wireless 101 |
0.5 |
| Technology |
X-GSM101 |
Understanding GSM |
2 |
| X-CDMA101 |
Understanding CDMA Based Technologies |
2 |
| X-TDMA101 |
Understanding TDMA Based Technologies |
2 |
| X-WIFI101 |
Understanding WiFi/WiMAX: Evolution, State-of-the-Art, and Future |
1 |
| RF Safety |
X-RFSAFETY |
Understanding RF Radiation Safety |
1 |
Curriculum Recommendations:
Those who wish to acquire general literacy in wireless should take X-WIRELESS101 followed by X-2.5/3G101. The former provides a sense of where wireless has come from, where it is today, and where it is headed. The latter presents a detailed overview of the evolving 2.5G/3G technologies. Together, these courses explain in layman yet non-simplistic terms the history, regulation, business, technology, and future of wireless.
Executives with a non-wireless engineering background should consider taking our high-impact, one-on-one Executive Technology Briefings in addition to or in place of the above two courses.
Those whose work requires a little more detailed (yet non-technical) understanding of a particular technology should follow the two general wireless literacy courses with one or more of our non-engineers’ introductions to GSM, CDMA, TDMA, and WIFI. Those with specific interest in CDMA or 2.5G/3G technologies should especially consider taking X-CDMA101.
Anyone who works at or visits cell sites, or manages those who do, will benefit from the X-RFSAFETY course.
