Electrical Engineering Principles & Practice

• Licensed Professional Engineers, who need to meet the annual or biennial license renewal PDH (Professional Development Hour) or CEU (Continuing Education Units) requirements.
• Engineers and Architects who do not possess current working knowledge of electrical engineering.
• Facility Managers, Engineering Managers, Program/Project Managers and other executives or leaders who feel a lack of adequate electrical knowledge to hold meaningful discussions and to make informed decisions with interacting with their electrical subordinates or colleagues.
• Non-engineers, including technical writers responsible for developing operations and maintenance manuals for electrical or electrically operated equipment.
• Procurement/purchasing professionals who are responsible for acquisition of electrical or electrically operated equipment.
• Candidates aspiring to take the FE or PE exams.
• Energy Managers and Construction Managers
• Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Managers
• Patent attorneys and attorneys who specialize in construction, workplace safety workmanship litigation cases.
• Other professionals whose annual PLP, Performance and Learning Program, includes engineering/technical courses/seminars/workshops.

In just one 8-hour day on the ODU campus or via Zoom,  you will know:

• The principles and concepts associated with AC and DC electricity, and the distinction between these two realms of electricity. This understanding can be used to apply appropriate mathematics and physics premised techniques, principles and equations for analysing AC and DC systems, in electronics and electrical power domains.

• The role played by voltage and current angles in the determination of power factor. The science and engineering theory behind power factor is illustrated using the vector method, graphical representation of voltage and current as a function of time and angle. Participants learn to apply different methods for calculating leading and lagging power factors.

• How addition of power factor correcting capacitors results in improvement of power factors and the physics and engineering based explanation behind “addition of too much capacitance,” and how to avoid it.

• How to apply important electrical system concepts, such as, power quality, load factor and service factor, demand, peak demand, distinction between electrical energy and electrical power, and associated engineering computation formulas and methods.
• And much more!

Participants are kept engaged through questions and answers, discussions, and classwork. Board acceptance guarantee.

Professor S. Bobby Rauf, PE, CEM, CMT, CE, MBA

Professor S. Bobby Rauf is the President, Chief Consultant and Senior Instructor at Sem-Train, LLC. Bobby has over 25 years of experience in teaching undergraduate and post-graduate Engineering, Math, Business Administration, and MBA courses, seminars, and workshops. Professor Rauf is a registered (PE) Professional Engineer, in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, and Wyoming and is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and a Certified Ergonomist (CE). He holds memberships in the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).

Professor Rauf was inducted as “Legend in Energy” by AEE, in 2014. He is a published author of multiple engineering and energy books and professional development courses. He holds a patent in process controls technology.

Professor Rauf is certified to instruct various engineering, ergonomics, and industrial safety courses. He has conducted certification training and trained engineers for Professional Engineering licensure exams in the United States, The United Kingdom, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands and Ukraine, over the past ten years.