Apprenticeship Electrician Courses

ELEC 0101 – Circuit Fundamentals
(78hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on first period math applications, current, voltage, and resistance, series resistive circuits, parallel resistive circuits, series-parallel resistive circuits, Edison 3-wire distribution systems and work, energy, power, and efficiency.

ELEC 0102 – EMF Sources
(26hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on methods of producing EMF, cells and batteries, magnetism and electromagnetism, and generators.

ELEC 0103 – Lab Fundamentals
(62hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on meters, conductors, splicing and terminating (low voltage), resistors, switching circuits, relays and controls, extra low voltage switching (0-30 V), and alarm systems and smoke alarms.

ELEC 0106 – Canadian Electrical Code Part 1 and Drawings
(62hrs, non-credit)

This course provides an introduction to code and instruction on general rules, conductor materials and sizes, service and grounding requirements, service feeders and branch circuits, wiring methods, installation of electrical equipment, installation of lighting equipment, class 1 and class 2 Circuits, orthographic projection and diagrams,  drawings, and drawings interpretation.

ELEC 0107 – Standard and Specific Workplace Safety
(12hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on safety legislation, regulations and industry policy in the trades, climbing, lifting, rigging and hoisting, hazardous materials and fire protection, electrician apprenticeship training program orientation, and electrical safety.

ELEC 0201 – Alternating Current (ac) Circuit Properties
(36hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on second period math applications, fundamentals of alternating current, principles of ac circuits, inductance and inductive reactance, capacitance and capacitive reactance, and power relationships.

ELEC 0202 – RLC Circuits
(74hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on series ac circuits, series resistive-reactive circuits, series RLC circuits, an introduction to parallel ac circuits, instruction on parallel RLC circuits, and power factor correction single-phase.

ELEC 0205 – Heating and Cooling Systems
(42hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on the principles of automatic heating and cooling controls, temperature sensing and control devices, basic gas-fired forced-air heating systems, efficient gas-fired forced-air heating systems, basic hot water heating systems, cooling systems, HVAC rooftop units, and heat trace.

ELEC 0206 – Magnetic Controls and Switching Circuits
(42hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on electrical control drawings, relays and contactors, timers and smart relays, protection devices, motor starters, diagram conversion, single motor control/pilot devices and symbols, and reversing magnetic starters.

ELEC 0207 – Canadian Electrical Code Part 1/Plans and Diagrams
(46hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on service conductor ampacity for a single dwelling, services and service equipment for a single dwelling, feeder and branch distribution requirements for a single dwelling, grounding requirements for a single dwelling, service ampacity for apartments and similar buildings, service protection and control for apartments and similar buildings, capacitor bank installations, pools, mobile home and temporary wiring, diagrams, specifications, drawing and plans.

ELEC 0301 – Three-Phase Principles
(98hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on third period math applications, three-phase systems, three-phase wye connection, three-phase delta connection, three-phase delta wye connection, three-phase power calculations, three-phase measurement for power calculations, and three-phase power factor correction.

ELEC 0303 – Three-Phase Motor Principles
(56hrs, non-credit)

This course provides an introduction to three-phase induction motors and instruction on the operation of three-phase induction motors, three-phase motors and starters, and an introduction to variable frequency drives.

ELEC 0304 – Transformers
(34hrs, non-credit)

This course provides an introduction to transformers and instruction on transformer operation (single-phase transformers), autotransformers, transformer connections (three-phase transformers) and energy measurement.

ELEC 0305 – Canadian Electrical Code
(52hrs, non-credit)

This course provides instruction on grounding and bonding; protection and control, installation of equipment, individual motors, motor banks, hazardous locations, explosive gas atmospheres, and corrosive and wet locations.