Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Upcoming dates (2)
Fee
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, the NEC codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, an NEC codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Discounts
$200 off the course fee, per person, when two or more enroll from the same employer ($1795).
ID
RA00066-D246
Credits
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
4/28/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 4/28/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 4/29/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 4/30/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 5/1/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 5/2/2025 8:00am - 3:30pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for ONE teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
This course uses the Canvas course management and Zoom platforms. A UW NetID is required to access Canvas and supplemental course materials and resources. Your registration confirmation email will walk you through the NetID process and how to access the Canvas course website.
For in-person students: physical course materials will be available on the first day of class.
For online students: course materials are shipped to you. Please look for an email two weeks before the course regarding the address you would like your course materials shipped to. The email will include a link to an online address verification form.
Enrollments are allowed up to the first day of the course. However, the course materials may not arrive before the start of the course for enrollment within 5 business days of the course start date.
Instructors
James Krier, Ryan Kallies, Kevin Rogers
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $199
Group Code: Use reservation link below
Reserve by: Apr. 6, 2025
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Course Overview
If you have no formal electrical engineering education, this course will teach you how electrical distribution systems for commercial and industrial buildings are designed and operated. Emphasizing basic electrical concepts rather than rigorous mathematical derivations, expert instructors introduce the fundamental direct current concepts and extend them to single-phase and three-phase alternating current systems. After completing this course you will know how to design low voltage (1,000 volts and below) electrical distribution systems and you will have a sound understanding of the associated codes and standards, as well as the important grounding, power quality, and arc-flash issues.
Who Should Attend?
- Working professionals who design electrical systems but who do not have a formal electrical engineering degree
- Plant engineers
- Electrical contractors
- Utility engineers
- Others responsible for the electrical and lighting systems in manufacturing plants and commercial and institutional buildings
Course Outline
Basic Concepts
- Voltage, current
- Resistance
- Ohm’s law
- Power, watts
- RMS, average values
- Inductance
- Capacitance
- Three-phase systems
- Power factor
Grounding Concepts
- Grounding for safety
- Grounding for equipment operation
Basics of Low Voltage Power Distribution
- Power factor
- Transformer operations and system voltages
- Neutral currents and harmonics on neutrals
- Faults, fuses and circuit breakers
System Design Philosophy
- Voltage levels: transformers, theory, types, connections
- Overcurrent protection: fault calculations, interrupting ratings, coordination
- Load study/possible loads: load characteristics, load locations
Standards, Recommended Practices, Guides, and Codes
- Introduction to National Electrical Code® (NEC)
Electrical Construction Materials
- Basic electrical construction materials: wire, raceways, devices, boxes, panelboards, motor control equipment, switchboards
- One-line and riser diagrams
Design Procedures for Lighting and Non-Motor Branch Circuits
- Lighting and non-motor branch circuit design: harmonics consideration, NEC requirements, circuit protection
- Motor branch circuit design: NEC requirements, motor protection, circuit protection, calculations
- Feeder circuit design: NEC requirements, circuit protection, calculations
- Problem Assignment
Design Procedures (Continued)
- Service design: commercial/industrial examples, NEC constraints, utility constraints, equipment, switchboards, metering: CTs, PTs
- Fault current calculations
- Discussion of class problem solution
- Lighting design
Advanced Concepts
- Power quality and harmonics: types of disturbances, harmonics, uninterruptible power supplies, distribution techniques
- Arc flash basics
Instructors
Ryan Kallies
Mr. Kallies PE, LEED AP is a Project Manager and Electrical Engineer at Affiliated Engineers, Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin. His specialty includes knowledge of the special electrical requirements for large scale, technically diverse facilities, such as medical, manufacturing, research, high containment research, data centers and multi-building campus environments. His expertise is in power system design with an emphasis in distribution systems from 15kV to 120V.
James Krier
Jim Krier PE, is a Principal Engineer at Alliant Energy in Madison, Wisconsin. He has held numerous engineering and managerial positions and has specialized in providing power quality engineering services to industrial and commercial customers for more than 26 years. His experience includes harmonic studies, power factor correction, wiring and grounding studies, power quality monitoring, arc flash hazards, surge suppression, substation project management, medium voltage electrical system design, distributed generation, and electrical troubleshooting.
Kevin Rogers
Kevin Rogers is an electrical engineer with a background in electrical power systems. He is a registered professional engineer, and his 18 years of industry experience spans across electric utility, government, commercial, and industrial applications. His technical responsibilities have included design and commissioning of mission-critical facilities, underground medium voltage distribution planning, design, and operations, high-voltage substation design, and relaying protection and control for complex interconnections. Prior to joining UW-Madison's College of Engineering Office of Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro), Rogers served as the Engineering Manager for an electrical engineering consulting firm where he and his colleagues provided diverse engineering services across the electrical construction industry.
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA00066-D246
Fee: $1,995
Fee
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, the NEC codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, an NEC codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Discounts
$200 off the course fee, per person, when two or more enroll from the same employer ($1795).
Credits
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
4/28/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 4/28/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 4/29/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 4/30/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 5/1/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 5/2/2025 8:00am - 3:30pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for ONE teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
This course uses the Canvas course management and Zoom platforms. A UW NetID is required to access Canvas and supplemental course materials and resources. Your registration confirmation email will walk you through the NetID process and how to access the Canvas course website.
For in-person students: physical course materials will be available on the first day of class.
For online students: course materials are shipped to you. Please look for an email two weeks before the course regarding the address you would like your course materials shipped to. The email will include a link to an online address verification form.
Enrollments are allowed up to the first day of the course. However, the course materials may not arrive before the start of the course for enrollment within 5 business days of the course start date.
Instructors
James Krier, Ryan Kallies, Kevin Rogers
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $199
Group Code: Use reservation link below
Reserve by: Apr. 6, 2025
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA00066-D631
Fee: $1,995
Fee
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, the 2023 NEC codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, an NEC codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
Discounts
Team 2+: When two or more sign up from same employer, your course fee is $1695.
Credits
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
9/15/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 9/15/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 9/16/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 9/17/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 9/18/2025 8:00am - 5:00pm Central Time
- 9/19/2025 8:00am - 3:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
This is a HyFlex (in-person and online) taught course. Your registration is for ONE teaching platform only: in-person or online. Please be prepared to attend all days either in-person or online. Contact us if you have any questions or if you need to make a change.
This course uses the Canvas course management and Zoom platforms. A UW NetID is required to access Canvas and supplemental course materials and resources. Your registration confirmation email will walk you through the NetID process and how to access the Canvas course website.
For in-person students: physical course materials will be available on the first day of class.
For online students: course materials are shipped to you. Please look for an email two weeks before the course regarding the address you would like your course materials shipped to. The email will include a link to an online address verification form.
Enrollments are allowed up to the first day of the course. However, the course materials may not arrive before the start of the course for enrollment within 5 business days of the course start date.
Course information will be available in Canvas. Watch the email you provide during registration for notifications.
Instructors
James Krier, Ryan Kallies, Kevin Rogers
Location
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Course #: RA00066Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Date: Mon. September 09, 2024 – Fri. September 13, 2024ID: RA00066-D090
Fee:
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
ONLINE COURSE ENROLLMENT IS NOW CLOSED
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, NEC® codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, NEC® codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
When two or more sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1745 each.
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Date: Mon. April 22, 2024 – Fri. April 26, 2024ID: RA00066-D089
Fee:
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, NEC® codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, NEC® codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
en two or more sign up from the same employer, your course fee is $1745 each.
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Date: Mon. September 11, 2023 – Fri. September 15, 2023ID: RA00066-C910
Fee:
- $1,995
-
Registration for Online Attendance Will Close on SEPT 4th
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, NEC® codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, NEC® codebook, and course materials.
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
Electrical Systems Design for the Non-Electrical Engineer
Date: Mon. April 24, 2023 – Fri. April 28, 2023ID: RA00066-C759
Fee:
- $1,995
-
This course has two attendance options, face-to-face or online.
Face-to-face attendance fee includes morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, NEC® codebook, and course materials.
Online attendance fee includes online instruction, NEC® codebook, and course materials. Online attendees will access course sessions via the Zoom web conferencing platform.
- CEU: 3.5
- PDH: 35
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