Apprenticeship

The following items are covered in the First Year IEC Apprenticeship Program.

• CPR & First Aid
• Hand Tools
• Assessment Inventories
• General Information - Electrical Installations, introduction to electricity, whole numbers, fractions
• Electrical Symbols + Outlets
• Circuit Theory
• Decimal Fractions
• Lighting + Appliance Circuits
• Static Electricity
• Percents, Averages
• Conductor Sizes + Types, Wiring
• Basic Circuits
• Powers + Roots
• Switch Control, Receptacle Bonding, etc.
• Magnetism
• Measures
• Ground Fault Protection
• Resistors
• Ratio + Proportion
• Lighting Fixtures
• Ohms Law - Series Circuits
• Formulas
• Bedroom Lighting
• Parallel Circuits
• Lighting Branch Circuits
• Using Fractions in Current Dividers
  
  

• Entryway Lighting
• Trigonometry
• Kitchen Circuits
• Living Room/Study Circuits
• Series/Parallel Circuits
• Laundry Outlets
• Proportional Values
• Garage Circuits
• Kirchoff’s Laws
• Rec Rooms + Workshops
• Thevenin’s Theorem
• Water Pumps + Heaters
• Current Sources, Superposition
• Kitchen Outlets
• Special Purpose Outlets
• Heating Systems
• Low Voltage Systems
• Lamp Identification
• Low Voltage Lighting
• Fire Alarm + Security Systems
• Remote Control Systems
• Knots and Rigging
• Pipe Bending
• Service Entrance
• Equipment
• Swimming Pools

The following items are covered in the Second Year IEC Apprenticeship Program.

• Measuring Instruments
• DC Generators
• DC Motors
• 3 Phase Alternators
• 3 Phase Motors
• Single Phase Motors
• Sizing and Protecting Motors and Motor Circuit Conductors
• Troubleshooting Motor Windings and Components
• Control Circuits Conductors, Components and Connection; Compressor Motors
• General Wiring, Conduit and Box Sizing
  
  

• Outlets, Lighting, Appliances and Heating
• Services and Feeder Calculations
• Grounding, Bonding and Overcurrent Protection
• Hazardous Locations and Motor Circuit Winding
• Health Care Facilities and Emergency Systems
• Industrial and Commercial Wiring
• Special Applications Wiring

The following items are covered in the Third Year IEC Apprenticeship Program.

• First Aid/CPR Review
• Motor & 3 Phase System Review
• Transformer Review
• Part 1 - Drawings - The Language of the Industry
• Part 2 - Reading prints for trade information
• Part 3 - Multi-Family Construction
• Part 4 - Commercial Construction
• Introduction to Grounding
• Grounding Conductors
• Grounding Equipment
• Fault Currents
• Introduction to Motor Controls
• Introduction to Logic & Line Diagrams
• Motor Controls Lab Session #1
• Contactors, Starters & Solenoids
• AC/DC Contactors & Magnetic Motor Starters
• Time Delay & Logic
• Application & Installation of Control Devices
• Reversing Circuits
• Power Distribution Systems
• Hazardous Locations
• Special Hazardous Locations
• Signs & Sign Connections
• Basic Fiber Optics
  
  

The following items are covered in the Fourth Year IEC Apprenticeship Program.

• Orientation and Safety
• Community First Aid & Safety
• Solid State Electronic Control Devices
• Electromechanical and Solid State Relays
• Advanced Controls
• Photoelectric and Proximity Controls
• Programmable Controllers
• AC Reduced Voltage Starters
• Accelerating and Decelerating Methods
• Preventative Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Leadership
• Introduction to Fire Protection Signaling Systems and Devices
• Installation, Start-up, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting of Fire Alarm Systems
• Fire Alarms Lab
• NEC and Related Standards, Safety Regulations, Power Systems
• Services, Switchboards, and Panel boards
• Conductors and Over current Protection Devices
• Lightning Protection and Grounding
• Designed and Installing Wiring Systems
• Branch and Feeder Circuits
• Receptacle and Lighting and Switching Outlets
• Motors and Motor Compressors
• Transformers
• Hazardous Locations
• Load Calculations