Electrical Designing and Drafting
Electrical Designing and Drafting is a major area where students are given an in depth knowledge in various areas in Electrical Design and Drafting of buildings and Distribution systems. A candidate pursuing the course in this design field would be able to have a very good lucrative career in this area.
Syllabus
- Scope of Electrical Designing & Draughting. .
- Duties and Role of an Electrical Design Engineer and Draughtsman.
- Electrical Generation, Transmission and Distribution general concept. .
- Utilization of Solar Energy for various buildings. .
- Selection of Solar Panels, Solar Regulators, Solar Battery and Inverters and their functioning. .
- House Wiring Concepts. .
- Different Electrical Services: Lighting, Power, Fire Alarm, Emergency lighting Etc. .
- Different types of Equipment’s and their load as per standard specifications. .
- Symbols and Legends: Lamps, Fan, Exhaust Fan, A/C, Sockets, etc.
- Abbreviations for all type of services. .
- Lux Level Calculation & Different types of lamps like GLS, FTL, CFL, LED, MVL, etc. .
- Load Scheduling (Single house, Apartment, High Rise buildings) common area, open area and load calculations. .
- Cables: Selection, Conductor, strands, cores and Insulation
- Armored and unarmored cables. .
- Voltage Drop Calculation. .
- Cable Schedule and Conduit selection as per the standards. .
- Switch Gears (Circuit Breakers) Types and Selection. .
- Internal Mechanism and Working of Circuit Breakers.
- Panel Boards (MDB, SMDB, SDB, etc.). .
- Transformer: Type, Internal connections, Selections & losses. .
- Fault level calculations for Transformers. .
- Short Circuit calculations in a building.
- Capacitor Bank (Power Factor Improvement). .
- BUSBAR details and Selection for High Rise Buildings. .
- Cable Tray (Tray cad), Raceway, Trucking, Conduits and Routing. .
- Cable Tray Selection
- Emergency Lighting: Backup power from UPS & Diesel Generator.
- Emergency Sign Lighting. .
- Selection of UPS and Generators. .
- Single line Diagram (SLD): Individual, Residential, Commercial, Industrial, hospitalized Buildings.
- Types of Earthing according to the requirements. .
- Introduction to Lightning Arresters. .
- Design Calculations to adopt Lightening Protection system. .
- Close Circuit Television (CCTV): Types of Cameras and Circuiting.
- Public Addressable System (Speakers Selection). .
- Fire Alarm system and load calculation. .
- Electrical Engineers work with HVAC profession (MCC). .
- Communication: TV, Telephone, Intercom & Internet Networking, Types of cables. .
- Types of Drawings: Design Drawing & Shop Drawing.
- Drawing Details: Lighting Layout, Power Layout, Single line drawing (SLD), Emergency .
- Lighting Layout, CCTVLayout, Public Addressable Layout, Fire Alarm System Layout, Communication Layout, Cable Tray Layout, BUSAR Layout, Bus duct riser drawings. .
- Software’s: CG LUX (Lux Level Calculation), RELUX, Anixter (Cable sizing), Tray-Cad (Cable tray Routing), Master Converter (For conversion). .
- BOQ: Bill of Quantity, Estimation and Costing (Complete project) .
- Green Building Design Implementation. .
- Designing as per Electrical Standards: NEC, BS, DEWA, ADEWA, IEC, NEMA, NFPA etc.