Practical Course for Designing LV Distribution Systems in Houses and Commercial Buildings

This course is a step-by-step guide on designing low-voltage distribution systems in houses, apartments, and other commercial buildings. The course consists in 20 lessons and 181 topics with a duration of 44 hours.

Electrical Design Course

This course is a step-by-step guide on designing low-voltage distribution systems in houses, apartmants and other commercial buildings. The design includes lighting, wiring of electrical components, selection of circuit breakers and fuses, creation of single-line diagram and riser of building, selection of generators, design of earthing systems, light current systems and much more.

The course consists in 20 lessons and 181 topics with a duration of 44 hours.

If you are an electrical power engineer interested in electrical distribution, this is a must-take course that will teach you all you need to know, starting from scratch. You will obtain the skills necessary to work with and design electrical installations using popular software such as AutoCAD, DiaLUX, and ETAP.

You will also learn how to calculate voltage drops and conduct short-circuit analyses.

This course includes over 181 lectures designed to provide a comprehensive and profound understanding of electrical design, progressing from novice to expert.

Throughout the course you will learn:

  • Basics of lighting design including concepts and methods of design.
  • Design of the lighting system using Dialux Evo.
  • Design of the lighting system using Dialux Red.
  • Basics of Autocad Electrical.
  • Wiring of the electrical system in Autocad that includes luminaries, sockets, and more.
  • Panel schedule for power and lighting systems.
  • Selection of circuit breakers and cables.
  • Drawing the single-line diagram of an electrical system and the riser of a building.
  • Importance of load estimation process and how to do it with a step-by-step lesson.
  • Load estimation using Excel program.
  • Transformer room dimensions sizing.
  • Generator room dimensions sizing.
  • Voltage drop analysis using manual calculations and the ETAP program.
  • Short circuit analysis using manual calculations and the ETAP program.
  • Everything about cables including different types of cables, types of armouring systems, types of
  • insulation, types of cable formation, derating factors, and more.
  • Sizing of the neutral and the earthing conductors.
  • Design of the earthing system using manual calculations and the ETAP program.
  • Design of lightning protection system.
  • Design of the UPS systems.
  • The residual circuit breakers, fuses, and breakers used in low, medium, and high-voltage circuits.
  • Construction, types, and components of an electrical panel.
  • Everything about the ETAP program from zero to hero.

Bonus Gift for buying the course:

You will find also the course slides for those who are interested in them or having them as a revision for themselves:

  • 81 Pages of Lighting Design
  • 32 Pages of Earthing System Slides
  • 49 Pages of Generator Sizing Slides
  • 20 Pages of Notes about Electrical Design
  • 70 Pages of Panel Board, Breakers, Fuses, and Cables
  • 27 Pages of Power Factor and Lightning Protection Systems
  • 8 Pages of Generator and Transformer Room Sizing
  • 192 Pages of Conduits, ATS, Lighting Switches, and UPS.
  • 92 Pages of NEC Sizing for Conductors, Overcurrent, and Overload.

Course Summary:

  1. Overview of Electrical Design Course
  2. Load Estimation, Generator Room, and Transformer Room
  3. Basics of Autocad for Wiring in Autocad
  4. Basics of Lighting Design
  5. Lighting Design Using Dialux Evo Program
  6. Lighting Legend, Switches, and Wiring in AutoCAD
  7. Power Legend, Sockets, and Mechanical Loads
  8. Disconnecting Switches and Wiring in AutoCad
  9. Panel Schedule
  10. Circuit Breakers and Fuses
  11. NEC Sizing for Overcurrent Protection
  12. Cables Course
  13. NEC Sizing for Conductors
  14. Panel Boards Construction and Types
  15. Power Factor Correction Using Capacitor Banks
  16. Voltage Drop and Short Circuit Analysis
  17. UPS System
  18. Generator Sizing
  19. Earthing System
  20. Lightning Protection System

Who Is This Course For?

  • Electrical engineers
  • Electrical engineering students
  • Electrical power engineers
  • Electrical power engineering students

Requirements:

  • You should have a computer or laptop.
  • You should have an Internet connection to download Dialux and Autocad.

Downloadable course materials

After purchasing the course, students can download the course-related documents:

  1. Overview on Electrical Design Course (PDF)
  2. Demand and Diversity Factors (PDF)
  3. Load Estimation (PDF)
  4. Load Estimation Methods (PDF)
  5. Transformer and Generator Room Sizing (PDF)
  6. Basics of Lighting Design (PDF)
  7. Reading and Preparing Architectural Drawings (PDF)
  8. ABB - Disconnect Switch (PDF)
  9. Administration Building Project Design (DWG)
  10. AF, AT, FTU, FMU, MTU, and ATU of a MCCB (PDF)
  11. Autocad First Floor (DWG)
  12. Autocad First Floor - Lighting (DWG)
  13. Autocad First Floor - Lighting - Part 1 (DWG)
  14. Autocad First Floor - Lighting - Part 2 (DWG)
  15. Autocad First Floor - Lighting - Part 3 (DWG)
  16. Autocad First Floor - Power - Part 1 (DWG)
  17. Autocad First Floor - Power - Part 2 (DWG)
  18. Autocad First Floor - Power - Part 3 (DWG)
  19. Autocad Shortcut (PDF)
  20. Circuit Breakers values (PNG)
  21. Conduits, ATS, Lighting Switches, and UPS (PDF)
  22. Earthing System (PDF)
  23. Eaton Breakers (PDF)
  24. Electrical Design of a Panel (PDF)
  25. El Sewedy Cables (PDF)
  26. ETAP (PDF)
  27. Final Task 1 Lighting (DWG)
  28. Floor 1 - Dialux Evo (DWG)
  29. Floor 1 - Lighting (DWG)
  30. Generator Rooms (PDF)
  31. Generator Sizing and UPS Systems (PDF)
  32. IFMT2_TBS165 G 4XTL5-14W HFS C3 (LDT)
  33. Lighting Legend - Course (PDF)
  34. Load Estimation Excel (XLSX)
  35. MCCB Catalog (PDF)
  36. MCCB-UTS150N_Datasheet (PDF)
  37. NEC Sizing for Conductors, Overcurrent and Overload (PDF)
  38. NEMA Ratings (PDF)
  39. Panel Board, Breakers, Fuses, and Cables (PDF)
  40. Panel Schedule (XLSX)
  41. Panel Schedule - Cables (XLSX)
  42. Panel Schedule - Cad (DWG)
  43. Panel Schedule - NEC (XLSX)
  44. Power Factor and Lightning Protection (PDF)
  45. Power Factor Correction Example (PDF)
  46. Riser of Residential Building (DWG)
  47. Siemens Disconnect Switches (PDF)
  48. Single Line Diagram of Industrial Location (DWG)
  49. Transformers Catalogue ABB (PDF)
  50. Villa - Electrical Design (DWG)
  51. XC400-500 (PDF)

Course Content

About Instructor

Engr. Ahmed Mahdy

I am Ahmed Mahdy an electrical power engineer, researcher, and the founder of Khadija Academy. I have helped over 100,000 students from 202 countries achieve career success through simple, easy courses over the last 10 years.​ In addition, I have a YouTube educational engineering channel called "Engr. Ahmed / Khadija Academy", where I regularly post videos related to electrical engineering. I have received the award for the best master's thesis in the Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University for 2022/2023. Some of my published research works in the top electrical engineering journals worldwide: 1- ​Transient stability improvement of wave energy conversion systems connected to power grid using anti-windup-coot optimization strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.0. 2- Nonlinear Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of a Grid-Connected AWS Wave Energy Conversion System - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy - Impact Factor of 8.8. 3- Modeling and optimal operation of hybrid wave energy and PV system feeding supercharging stations based on golden jackal optimal control strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.​0. 4- State-of-the-Art of the most commonly adopted wave energy conversion systems - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0. 5- Optimal Design of Fractional-Order PID Controllers for a Nonlinear AWS Wave Energy Converter Using Hybrid Jellyfish Search and Particle Swarm Optimization - Fractal and Fractional - Impact Factor of 5.4 6- Dynamic performance enhancement of nonlinear AWS wave energy systems based on optimal super-twisting control strategy - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0. 7- A novel maximum energy extraction strategy using lithium-ion batteries for Archimedes wave swing wave energy conversion systems - Renewable Energy - Impact Factor of 9.1

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Course Includes

  • 20 Lessons
  • 181 Topics
  • Course Certificate
  • Lifetime Access