Improve Workforce Efficiency

Course #: Block X25
Duration: 96 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn: This block introduces the trainee to the various types of prints, drawings, and schematics used in an industrial environment. The trainee will learn how to read and interpret the different types of standard symbols and abbreviations found on these drawings. This block will benefit trainees entering any industrial trade. Each study unit contains a progress examination.
Components: Dimensioning (186040); Tolerancing and Symbols (186041); Sectional Views and Simplified Drafting (186042); Introduction to Print Reading (186039); Building Drawings (186043); Electrical Drawings and Circuits (186044); Electronic Drawings (186045); Hydraulic and Pneumatic Drawings (186046); Piping: Drawings, Materials, and Parts (186047); Welding Symbols (186048); Sheet Metal Basics (186049); Sketching (186050);
Special Notes: This updated course replaces Reading prints and Schematics, Block X05. Each study unit contains a progress examination.

Course #: 186039
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify the various kinds of lines used on drawings.
• Compare and contrast the various types of drawings.
• Relate the information given in the title block and bill of material to the drawing.
• Define different types of scales used on drawings.
  

Course #: 186040
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify the height, width, and length dimensions of a drawing.
• Interpret dimensions on angles, arcs, fillets, rounds, holes, and chamfers.
• Interpret the surface finish symbols for roughness, waviness, and lay.
  

Course #: 186041
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Tell the position method from the bracket method of dual dimensioning.
• Identify the three general classes of fits.
• Interpret unilateral and bilateral tolerances.
• Interpret the various symbols and notations used on drawings.
  

Course #: 186042
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Tell one type of section from another.
• Interpret the various types of sections.
• Interpret drawings using simplified drafting methods.
  

Course #: 186043
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify the various kinds of building drawings.
• Compare elevations, plans, and sections.
• Match the symbols used on drawings with the various building materials they stand for.
• Interpret the explanations and abbreviations used on building drawings.
• Read steel and concrete structural drawings.
  

Course #: 186044
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify electrical construction drawings, schematics, and wiring diagrams.
• Interpret various electrical symbols.
• Read standard abbreviations used in electrical diagrams.
• Tell if a diagram is a block diagram, a schematic diagram, or a wiring diagram.
• Compare closed circuits, open circuits, grounded circuits, and short circuits.
  

Course #: 186045
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify and interpret the various electronics symbols used on drawings.
• Identify and interpret the various types of drawings used in the electronics field.
  

Course #: 186046
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Graphic symbols for lines, flows, and reservoirs.
• Pump and valve symbols.
• Fluid circuit and air circuit components.
• Graphical, circuit, cutaway, pictorial, and combined diagrams.
  

Course #: 186047
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Define the term "piping drawings."
• Recognize plans, elevations, and sectional views.
• Identify a view by its placement on a drawing.
• List what working drawings include.
• Evaluate whether or not a freehand sketch serves its intended purpose.
• Interpret the standard symbols and abbreviations and "read" the color coding on piping in industrial and power plants.
• Interpret dimensions marked on piping drawings.
  

Course #: 186048
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify by name the welding processes commonly used in plant maintenance work.
• Name the best welding processes for a given welding job.
• Identify by sight, the basic joint and groove designs used in welding.
• Identify by sight the basic types of welds and describe their uses.
• Interpret the weld symbols most often found in the drawings used in plant maintenance work.
  

Course #: 186049
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Identify sheet metal of known material and thickness by page and weight.
• Figure allowances for bends, circumferences, seams, locks, and edges.
• Know when and where to cut relief radi.
• Catalog and identify by sight the various seams, locks, and edges.
• Name and describe the major tools and machines used in sheet metal working.
• Explain how large fittings can be constructed.
• List the characteristics of PVC and PVF sheet and laminates.
  

Course #: 186050
Duration: 8 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn:

• Use the right techniques for sketching straight and curved lines, and circles and arcs.
• Draw, with practice, multiview sketches of simple objects that accurately show all the details of the objects.
• Draw dimension sketches of simple machine parts with enough detail that parts can be made.
• Draw, with practice, realistic sketches of objects that have simple rectangular and circular shapes.
  

Course #: 006036
Duration: 10 hours
Course Prerequisites: AC Principles (Block A22); Basic Industrial Math (Block X21);
What Students Learn: In this study unit, you will learn to read several different types of electrical blueprints. Reading and understanding the information that appears on a blueprint will be emphasized, not the design details of a particular project. Engineers and designers use blueprints to present design information in a variety of ways. The general principles for preparing blueprints will also be covered. The skills you learn can be applied to reading blueprints for residential, commercial, manufacturing, and electric utility projects.
When students complete this study unit, you will be able to:

• Explain how blueprints are prepared.
• Discuss how and why blueprints are copies of original drawings.
• Talk about the relationship of electrical blueprints to the architectural drawings and drawings of other trades.
• Read and understand the information presented on blueprints.
• Identify the different methods of presenting information.
• Interpret the common symbols used on electrical blueprints.
• List the common abbreviations used on electrical blueprints.
• Trace a wiring diagram and understand it.
  
  Special Notes: This updated course replaces, Electrical Blueprint Reading, course 6635.

Course #: 6705
Duration: 10 hours
Course Prerequisites: Practical Measurements (Block X22);
What Students Learn: Types and Uses of Drawings and Prints; Dimensions and Scales; Symbols and Common Conventions; Sectional Views; Boiler Components Nomenclature; Examples of Print Reading; Hanger Rods and Penthouse Framing; Large Piping and Headers; Loose Tubing; Superheaters; Wall Tubes; Flues and Ducts; Field Material Shop Orders.

Course #: 6732
Duration: 10 hours
Course Prerequisites: Elements of Print Reading (6719A-B); Practical Measurements (Block X22);
What Students Learn: Basic Drawing Information; Kinds of Drawings; Dimensions, Symbols and Abbreviations; Descriptions of Piping Drawings; Pipe Materials and Methods of Manufacture; Valves; Piping Accessories; Piping Assembly; Fluid-Power Diagrams; Examples of Piping Drawings.