Construction Electrician Apprenticeship Program Curriculum

First Year - Student Lessons

  • 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
Second Year - Student Lessons

  • 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
Third Year - Student Lessons
  • 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
Fourth Year - Student Lessons

  • 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