ELCT 1403 - Electrical Skills II

Description
Electrical Skills II builds on the foundational understanding obtained in Electrical Skills I and is designed to provide students with working knowledge of electrical installations and systems.
Students will learn essential skills and knowledge related to current, motors, lighting, circuit breakers, and installation of electrical devices and control systems.

Pre-Requisite
Successful completion of Electrical Skills I or equivalent

3 Credit Hour(s)

Contact Hours
45 lecture hours

3 Faculty Load Hour(s)

Semesters Offered
Fall Spring

ACTS Equivalent
None

Grade Mode
A-F

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, the student should be able to:
• Identify AC waveforms.
• Determine unknown values in AC circuits.
• Make power calculations in AC circuits.
• Identify transformers and explain how they operate.
• Identify direct current (DC) motors and describe their operating characteristics.

• Identify alternating current (AC) motors and describe their operating characteristics.
• Identify variable-speed drives and describe their operating characteristics.
• Identify motor enclosures, frame designations, and operating characteristics.
• Identify the connections and terminal markings for AC motors.
• Identify the NEC® requirements for motors.
• Explain the relationship between human vision and light.
• Evaluate light sources and luminaires to solve common lighting needs.
• Select and install luminaires for various applications.
• Identify the NEC® requirements for conduit bends.
• Use equations to find bend distances.
• Use mechanical benders.
• Use electric and hydraulic conduit benders.
• Install PVC conduit.
• Identify boxes and fittings.
• Size pull and junction boxes.
• Identify specialty enclosures.
• Install cable in conduit systems.
• Set up for high-force cable pulling.
• Identify cable limitations when pulling.
• Identify cable tray components.
• Calculate the load on a cable tray.
• Determine cable tray fill.
• Strip and train conductors.
• Make wire connections.
• Reinsulate electrical connections.
• Identify grounding requirements and applications.
• Identify service grounding methods.
• Size and select equipment grounding.
• Bond service equipment.
• Ground and bond separately derived systems.
• Test for effective grounds.
• Identify the function of overcurrent protective devices.
• Size and select circuit breakers.
• Size and select fuses.
• Identify magnetic and mechanically held contactors.
• Select and troubleshoot relays.
• Install low-voltage remote control switching systems.

General Education Outcomes Supported

• Students develop higher order thinking skills.
• Students can achieve mathematical literacy.
• Students demonstrate information literacy.

Standard Practices
Topics List
• Alternating Current
• Motors: Theory and Application
• Electric Lighting

• Conduit Bending
• Pull and Junction Boxes
• Conductor Installations
• Cable Tray
• Conductor Terminations and Splices
• Grounding and Bonding
• Circuit Breakers and Fuses
• Control Systems and Fundamental Concepts

Learning Activities
• Courses must, at a minimum, cover the core learning outcomes for each topic. Faculty may add
to these outcomes but may not omit any of them.
• Lab safety and equipment orientation and enforcement of safety protocols is each faculty
member’s responsibility.
• Since all general education outcomes are supported by specific course and program outcomes,
all instructors should include learning activities that develop these outcomes in their courses and
identify them in course syllabi. Instructors should describe how these activities will be evaluated
in their course syllabi and/or reflected in their gradebooks.
Assessments
Exams include closed book tests and online quizzes.

Grading guidelines
• 90% score of all graded assignments = A
• 80% - 89% score on all graded assignments = B
• 70% - 79% score on all graded assignments = C
• 60% - 69% score on all graded assignments = D
• <60% score on all graded assignments = F