PRC EPLE key terms

The body created under Philippine law that administers the electronics engineering profession, sets the licensure examination, and recommends registration and disciplinary actions to the Professional Regulation Commission.

The national agency that regulates licensed professions in the Philippines, including approving examination results, issuing certificates of registration, and enforcing professional standards across all covered fields.

The government-administered board examination that candidates must pass to become registered electronics engineers, covering mathematics, electronics, communications, and regulatory subjects in a fixed set of test days.

A person who has passed the licensure examination, taken the professional oath, and holds a valid certificate of registration and professional identification card entitling lawful practice of electronics engineering.

A practitioner who passed the technician-level licensure examination and is authorized to perform electronics work of a scope defined by the implementing rules, distinct from the engineer level.

The formal document issued by the Commission evidencing that a person has qualified for a professional license, bearing the registrant's name, profession, and registration number.

The wallet-sized card issued to a registered professional showing license number, dates of validity, and photograph; it must be renewed periodically and presented when required by authorities.

The formal pledge administered to newly registered professionals before they may lawfully practice, committing them to ethical conduct, public safety, and compliance with professional standards.

A structured program of learning activities required to maintain and renew a professional license, earned through seminars, formal courses, self-directed learning, and professional service, measured in credit units.

The standard measure of credit awarded for a completed continuing education activity; different activity types carry different conversion rates, and a minimum number is required per renewal cycle.

An institution or organization accredited by the Council to deliver continuing professional development programs and issue credit units to participants, subject to compliance with accreditation criteria.

The body that formulates policies on continuing professional development, accredits providers and programs, and monitors compliance with credit requirements for license renewal.

The legally defined set of activities that a registered professional is authorized to perform, including design, installation, operation, and maintenance of electronic systems and equipment.

The set of professional conduct rules binding registered practitioners, covering honesty, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and responsibility to the public and the profession.

Behavior by a registered professional that violates the code of ethics or accepted standards, such as negligence, fraud, or unauthorized practice, and is grounds for disciplinary action.

A disciplinary sanction that temporarily bars a registered professional from practicing, imposed after proper proceedings for violations of law, rules, or the code of ethics.

The most severe disciplinary penalty, permanently withdrawing a professional's authority to practice unless the Commission later grants reinstatement after a prescribed period.

The requirement that entities offering regulated electronics engineering services register with the Commission and employ a duly licensed professional responsible for the firm's technical work.

The registered engineer's official mark placed on drawings, plans, reports, and specifications to certify professional responsibility for their technical content and compliance with standards.

The relationship stating that current through a conductor equals the voltage across it divided by its resistance; the fundamental basis for analyzing DC and resistive circuits.

A conservation principle stating that the algebraic sum of voltages around any closed loop in a circuit equals zero, used to write loop equations in network analysis.

A conservation principle stating that the algebraic sum of currents entering a node equals zero, meaning total current into a junction equals total current leaving it.

A method that replaces a complex linear network, as seen from two terminals, with an equivalent voltage source in series with a resistance, simplifying load analysis.

A linear-circuit principle allowing the response caused by multiple independent sources to be found by summing the responses produced by each source acting alone with others deactivated.

The condition in an AC circuit where inductive and capacitive reactances cancel, making impedance purely resistive and maximizing or minimizing current depending on the circuit configuration.

The total opposition a circuit presents to alternating current, combining resistance and reactance as a complex quantity with magnitude in ohms and an associated phase angle.

The ratio of real power to apparent power in an AC circuit, equal to the cosine of the phase angle between voltage and current; low values indicate inefficient power use.

A two-terminal device formed from a p-n junction that conducts readily in one direction and blocks the other, used for rectification, clamping, and voltage regulation.

A three-terminal semiconductor device with emitter, base, and collector, in which a small base current controls a larger collector current, used for amplification and switching.

A voltage-controlled semiconductor device in which an electric field at the gate modulates conduction through a channel between source and drain, offering high input impedance.

A high-gain differential amplifier building block used with feedback networks to perform amplification, filtering, summing, integration, and comparison in analog signal processing.

A configuration in which a portion of the output is returned to the input out of phase, stabilizing gain, reducing distortion, widening bandwidth, and controlling input and output impedance.

The maximum rate at which an amplifier's output voltage can change, usually expressed in volts per microsecond, limiting performance at high frequencies and large signal swings.

The sampling rule requiring a signal to be sampled at more than twice its highest frequency component to allow faithful reconstruction and avoid aliasing.

The distortion that occurs when a signal is sampled below the Nyquist rate, causing high-frequency components to appear as false lower-frequency components in the reconstructed signal.

The process of varying a property of a carrier wave, such as amplitude, frequency, or phase, in accordance with an information signal to enable transmission or reduce noise.

The ratio of desired signal power to noise power at a specified point, usually expressed in decibels, indicating how clearly information can be recovered from a channel.

The ratio of voltage to current for a wave traveling along an infinite or properly terminated line, determined by conductor geometry and dielectric properties, typically 50 or 75 ohms.

A measure of mismatch on a transmission line, equal to the ratio of maximum to minimum voltage along the line; a value of one indicates perfect matching.