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.