Date/Time
Date(s) - May 12, 2026 - May 27, 2026
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location
Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County
This is a 6 day workshop and is divided into 3 parts (2 days each part). Participants must complete each part in order to continue to the next part. Please click on the class title to view what each part will be covering.
Part 1 – May 12 and 13. This two day part covers the foundational concepts of electricity, including terms, circuits, direct and alternating currents. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.
Objectives::
- Define electricity and electrical concepts like voltage, current, resistance, and power.
- Introduce polarity in conjunction with AC and DC circuits.
- Explore electrical properties like magnetism, capacitance, and induction.
- Explain scientific notation, engineering notation and engineering units like milliamps, megawatts and picofarads.
- Review basic electrical safety including hazards, PPE and good practices.
- Learn how to analyze circuits using Ohms Law and apply these principles to series, parallel and combination circuits. (Real-world examples will be used to demonstrate these concepts with hands-on practical exercises).
- Discuss wire size and ampacity, wire color, and usage.
- Use NEC charts for wire, fuse, and breaker size.
- Present commonly used electrical components such as relays, solenoids, contactors, switches, pushbuttons, indicators, and semiconductors.
Part 2 – May 19 and 20 – This two-day part covers the foundational concepts of electric motors and industrial transformers. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.
Objectives:
- Explain the operation and usage of motor control circuits including circuit protection, full voltage starters, soft starts, and reversing starters
- Describe the use of motor nameplates and motor torque curves
- Explain the functionality and construction of single-phase and polyphase AC motors, DC motors, and servos
- Describe the basic operation of VFDs
- List basic principles of troubleshooting AC motors
- Explain the operating principles of a transformer
- Interpret a transformer nameplate
- Describe the different ways a transformer can be wired.
Part 3 – May 26 and 27 – This two-day workshop covers basic industrial print reading, relay logic, industrial controls, and numbering systems. The course also includes numerous exercises and examples. Participants who complete this course can expect to gain knowledge and learn skills useful in an industrial environment.
Objectives:
- Review print reading including symbols, practices, and cross-references
- Explain discrete vs. analog signals used for industrial control systems
- Describe different types of industrial communications
- Define logic gates and functions and interpret logic gates and logic gate combinations
- Explain relay logic with practical exercises
- Apply the logic to functions of industrial machines’ standard start/stop latching circuits and safety circuits
- Explain number systems
- Convert decimal numbers to binary numbers
- Describe digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion
- Introduce PLC/controls and input/output cards
- Practical, hands-on use of meters, relays, switches, and lights will be used throughout the course
Intended audience: Appropriate for all levels; it is recommended that participants possess good math skills.
Workshop length: 6 days – 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Cost: $1950
Location: Economic Development Corporation of Elkhart County, 300 NIBCO Parkway, Suite 201, Elkhart, IN
Register By: Friday, May 1, 2026
