Electrical Engineering Practices for Facilities Engineer Course

Course Overview:

This Courses and workshops offered by Barry D Watson, Edwin Soucy and Manuel988 Provides in-depth technical and managerial skills. There instructor will touch upon theories of electric systems, selection and driving of motors, wirings and cables, transformer, switchgear, motor control centers, etc.

The course also includes the curricula of fault protection, grounding and bonding philosophies, safety and compliance with standards include: ANSI, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, etc. Other topics include UPS and emergency power and area classification. 

The course is for mid to senior engineers who have working experience in facilities, projects, electrical, instrumentation, and controls. Upon completion of this program, participants will have the technical knowledge and understanding required to efficiently and compliantly execute an electrical project.

Course Objectives:

• Key principles in project management for electrical projects including basics, front end loading, scope definition, brown-field vs. green-field, engineering deliverables, roles and responsibilities, project planning, risk analysis and management, cost estimating, and procurement, construction, contractor and supplier management
• Standards and recommended practices through an introduction to ANSI, API, CSA, CFR, IEC, IEEE, IES, ISA, NEMA, NFPA, AND UL
• Electrical distribution systems including background, planning, voltage selection, and system protection
• How to select, maintain and control DC and AC motors
• The characteristics, properties, insulation, shielding, jacketing, short circuit capabilities, and references of wires and cables
• Transformers which include operation, models, types, components, turns and voltage ratios, connections, losses, efficiency, ratings, application, selection, and safety
• Medium and low voltage switchgear and motor control centers including specifications, maintenance, and distribution
• Topics in faults and circuit protection including sensing devices, fuses, direct tripping devices, protective relaying, relaying schemes, major equipment protection, and system relay coordination
• Distribution, construction, fuses, circuit breakers, disconnects, grounding, types, and ratings of switchboards and panels
• The systems and requirements of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and emergency power in addition to an overview of generator set, ATSs, and batteries
• Fault protection, system grounding philosophy, ungrounded systems, grounded systems, bonding, ignition sources, bonding techniques, separately derived systems, performance, and substation grounding

Who Should Attend?

Facilities and Project Engineers with two or more years of experience; Electrical, Instrumentation or Controls Engineers with two or more years of experience.

Course Outlines:

• Electrical project management
• Standards and recommended practices
• Distribution systems
• Motors
• Wire and cable
• Transformers
• Switchgear
• Motor control centers
• Switchboards and panels
• Electrical faults (short circuits) and circuit protection
• UPS and emergency power
• Electrical system ground and bonding
• Hazardous area classification