2024-2025 College Catalog

APR APR 162 Electrical 1-1

This course provides an overview of the electrical craft and discusses the career paths available to electricians, including apprenticeship requirements, discusses hazards and describes the various types of personal protective equipment (PPE) used to reduce injuries. Covers the standards related to electrical safety and the OSHA-mandated lockout/tagout rule Discusses basic atomic and electrical theory and electrical units of measurement. Explains how Ohm’s law and the power equation can be used to determine unknown values, and introduces electrical schematic diagrams and introduces basic circuits, as well as the methods for calculating the electrical energy within them. Covers resistive circuits, Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws, and circuit analysis.

PREREQUISITES: NCCER CORE 2E

Credits

4