DAY ONE
8:00AM - 8:45AM
Course Instructor
Khaled Nigim, PhD, Electrical Engineering
Professor, Conestoga COllege
Part 1
Basic Electricity Principles
- Voltage, Current, Resistance, and Power
- Ohm's law
- Series, parallel, and series-parallel
- AC Electricity vs. DC Electricity
Part 2
Understanding Electrical Circuits
- What are the main electric circuit elements and how they work together?
- What are the rules to analyze DC sourced electrical circuits?
- Know how to estimate current and voltage drop across the DC circuit elements
- Know the difference between single-phase (1ph) and three-phase (3ph) alternating current sources
- What are the rules to analyze AC sourced electrical circuits?
- Know the real, imaginary and complex power components of the AC source
- What is the power factor and how it is controlled for saving energy and money?
- Practical Exercises
Part 3
Electrical Drawing and Symbols
- Drawing symbols
- Blueprints
- Reading Schematics
- Ladder diagrams
- Electrical Schematics
- Power circuits
- Control circuits
- How to read circuit schematics
- How to read circuit schematics and to track out the connections of elements and identify current flow and voltage drop
- Practical Exercises
Part 4
Generators and Transformers
- DC Power sources
- AC/DC generators
- Single-phase and three-phase electricity
- Inductance, capacitance, and impedance
- How transformers operate
DAY TWO
Part 5
Electric Motors
- Single-phase, three-phase and DC motors
- Motor theory and basic design
- Interfacing DC or AC sources to control heaters and motors
- Learn how AC motors change their speed and power
- Practical Exercises
Part 6
Solid-State Devices
- Resistors, inductors and capacitors
- Diode and rectifiers
- Know what resistors, inductors and capacitors are and why they are connected in series or in shunt.
- Learn how inductors and capacitors behave when powered by DC or AC sources
Part 7
Electrical Protection
- Relays
- Fuses and disconnect switches
- Circuit breakers
- Overload devices
- Ground-fault protection
- Grounding and isolating
- Phase reversal
- Surge protection
- Interfacing DC or AC sources to common control elements such as relay protection devices
Part 8
Industrial Electrical Wiring
- Different types of conductors and cables used to carry electricity
- Basics of industrial wiring
- How to calculate cables and conductor voltage drop and losses
- Measurement techniques and instruments to measure current, voltage, power in DC and AC circuits
- Insulation and ampacity
- Solid and stranded cable
- Conduit—metal and nonmetallic
- Cable trays, busways
- Splices: wirenuts, crimps, terminal blocks, split bolts, and solder
- Parallel conductors
- Low-voltage applications
Course Timetable for Both Days:
- START: 8:05AM
- COFFEE BREAK: 10:00AM
- LUNCH: 12:00PM
- REFRESHMENT BREAK: 2:30PM
- FINISH: 4:30PM