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  • 0.50 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $125 Students will study installation, operation and maintenance of URD loops and radial systems. Students will study and be able to discuss trenching safe work practices, identify primary and secondary risers and be able to install a variety of primary terminators and splices. Students will also demonstrate proficiency installing pads, hand holes, secondary risers and terminations. Participants will also study primary and secondary cable failure modes; URD switching on live and dead front equipment; fault finding and testing of URD cables.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $25 This course provides an understanding of electric street and area lighting system principles of design, application, installation, operation and maintenance for overhead and underground distribution equipment.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $25 This course meets all the requirements of OSHA for electrical line workers as required in OSHA (CFR 29) 1910.269 (a)(2)(I) "manhole and pole top rescue" and 1910.269 (b)(1) "First Aid anCPR". Students will demonstrate industry practices for rescuing injured co-workers aloft from structures, from bucket trucks or aerial devices and from manholes. Students will become certified to perform life saving skills in First Aid and CPR.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor Hot line maintenance, carefully done by industry approved standards, has proven to be an effective method for work on energized power circuits. Maximum application of insulating equipment and utilization of the basic principles of isolation are required to the greatest degree possible.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor This course is a hands-on practical review of the Hot Line techniques taught in EET 2510C. Only by operating with approved industry standards has this been proven to be an effective method for work on energized electric power circuits. Maximum application of insulating equipment and utilization of the basic principles of isolation are required to the greatest degree possible.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $75 Basic electrical and magnetic principles as applied to the operation of distribution transformers will be presented in this course. Emphasis will be placed on understanding and applying transformer connections in three-phase banks; the physical construction of transformers, autotransformers and reactors; and safety requirements for installing and maintaining transformer equipment. Troubleshooting transformers and transformer bank problems will be an integral component of the course.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform overhead line installations, pole line inspection, transformer inspection, maintenance, and change-outs. Students will be involved in hands-on experiences in an outdoor lab.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $15 This course provides students with knowledge of modern electric metering theory, application, and safety, together with an understanding of electric energy use and conservation management.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: None Students in this course will learn the history of the electric utility and the Cooperative, Municipal Public and Investor Owned utility business structures, including the evolution of regulatory agencies and current status of power company de-regulation. Students will study the importance of organization and aspect of vertical integration. Students will be introduced to the functions of Human Resources and Public Relations organizations. Students will be introduced to State and Federal power provider regulations including the areas of environmental and wildlife protections; conservation and Green Power trends and will be introduced to other Department of Labor, Safety and agency "standards". Students will demonstrate a basic understandingof "inter and intrastate" power sales and agreements, mutualaid agreements, power pooling, purchased power and leased systems. Students will study and demonstrate an understanding of the importance of pole line management, GPS/GIS Distribution facilities management applications, budgeting and construction cost estimating.
  • 0.50 Credits

    Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor . Laboratory Fee: $85 Students will demonstrate an understanding of blueprint reading for duct bank and manhole construction. Students will discuss pre-cast; cast in place manhole construction; concrete encased and un-encased duct bank construction techniques. Students will demonstrate proficiencies in confined space planning, entry and rescue; rigging and pulling cable in manhole installations; framing, racking and fireproofing cables.
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