4th Year Questions

Attention 4th Year Apprentices:

One of your classmates asked the following question-

Where is the Digital Electronics Text?

Answer----

It is published as excerpts in two appendices in the workbook.  IF you want more information on the subject you can get the whole textbook and/or a computer based training cd-rom.

Greg McMurphy
Instructor
LU112-NECA JATC

Steward Training

Steward's class will be held on December 15th and 20th for Fifth year apprentices.  Brother Bill Grostick is presenting the class, plan on attending and representing your local with pride.

 

Greg McMurphy
Instructor

Fire Alarm Fifth Year

Mark Arend called in and asked if he needed to have NFPA 72 to do the fire alarm lessons.  Although it is shown as a reference, 99% of the information is available in the text.  The fire alarm course book now includes information for a Journeyman class aimed at getting folks ready to take the NICET certification examination.  A person preparing for that test would buy the NFPA 72 standard and go through it, marking it up during the class and getting familiar with where to find the requirements.  You, as fifth year apprentices, do not need this reference because nearly all the information is reprinted or explained in your text book.

 

Thanks for looking ahead and asking questions!!

Greg McMurphy
Instructor
LU112-NECA JATC

Fifth Year Instrumentation Lessons

Felix B. asked a couple of questions about the Instrumentation Lessons that you all may be trying to figure out soon.  First off, the questions based on the glossary do have answers in the book.  It is just hard to look up the term given the definitions.  Try scanning through the glossary, reading the questions for similar wording and answering what you can, then repeat, getting as many as you can before you have to slog through reading all the definitions.

 

Secondly, the references are off for the Instrumentation lessons.  All of the lessons reference chapter one in the reading, but if you look at the title of the lesson and the introductory information you could figure out which chapters in the reading apply pretty easily.  Here is how they line up.

Lessons 1, 2, & 3 are from Chapters 1 & 2

Lessons 4 & 5 are from Chapter 3

Lesson 6  from Chapter 4

Lesson 7 from Chapter 5

Lesson 8 from Chapter 6

 

I hope this helps.

 

Greg McMurphy
Instructor
LU112-NECA JATC
www.jatc112.org
instructor@jatc112.org

Back from Knoxville:
Dennis, Denny and Greg are back in town from Knoxville. There has been only one call from a fifth year apprentice regarding homework, so either things are going along nicely or only one person has started doing homework. Please go through the Inside Syllabus and look at how it is organized, call if you have any questions.

Dennis, Greg and Denny are out of town. There have been some questions about homework already, please use a comment to this post or an email to greg to ask your questions. A post works much better because everyone can see the whole thread of the conversation and perhaps post something they have seen in the homework that I am not even aware of yet. Remember about 40% of the curriculum has changed and we just finished the last week of school a few days before leaving for Knoxville, so not all the answers will come trippingly off the top of our heads but we do have the authors of the texts right here to ask questions of so fire away. Just click below and on the right hand part of this pane that says how many comments there are. After you post a comment I will automatically get an email and will start working on the reply. Please sign your first name, last initial and make sure I know what year of the program you are asking about.

Greg

Fourth Year Elective Saturdays Set

As of today, July 25, 2005, the elective Saturdays for Fourth Year are set as follows:

E1=Motors

E2=Grounding

E3=Branch Circuits and Feeders

E4=Transformers

E5=Wiring Methods and General Use Equipment

 

Fourth Year Apprentices will need to sign up for two elective Saturdays.

 

These classes are open to Journeymen so Apprentices should sign up early so as to be sure to get your space.  You will show up the days you sign up for.  Right now there is no sanction planned if you fail to show up.  If this plan is abused we will decide on a consequence at that time, and there is no obligation on our part to let you know ahead of time.  So be responsible by signing up early, and showing up to classes you sign up for.

 

Greg McMurphy
Instructor

BOOKS ARE READY

Book packages are ready to pick up.  We are working out the lesson schedule and should have them ready next week.  I did update the FAQ pages for each year so check out www.jatc112.org for the latest.  This year I am sure we will have to do some adjusting of the daily schedule as we go due to the approximate 40% change in curriculum.  Be prepared to be flexible and make sure to communicate.  Email works great.

Hope you have a great summer!!

 

Greg McMurphy
www.jatc112.org

New classes scheduled-see the calendar at www.jatc112.org

TESTING NEWS

 

 

JW test scheduled for Saturday June 25.  Contact Dan Wolf through the Union Hall if you have specific questions on content.  If you want to practice call ahead and come on in.  We have first year in this week and we can accommodate some practice.

 

Fraternally,

Greg

There are numerous changes to the curriculum this year, and a change in scheduling. Nearly all Third and Fourth year Saturday classes will include testing. Semester 1 and 2 tests will certainly be administered on the appropriate Saturday. This is so we can try and schedule in our vendor classes on weekdays and avoid any last minute cancellations and scrambling for content. Second big scheduling change is that Fourth Year apprentices will have three full 10 hour Saturdays scheduled and then they can chose from several offerings of elective classes. We will be giving JW classes on Saturdays (almost always the second Saturday of the month BUT ALWAYS CHECK THE CALENDAR) so you will designate which two of these half day classes you will attend in order to complete your hours. We are hoping a half day class will be more attractive and easy to schedule around. We know for sure there is a demand for such from the JW's. Read your book notices carefully and be prepared that first week of class by starting early. It may be a bit confusing right off the bat but I think in the long run the curriculum changes will be a benefit.

Fraternally,
Greg M

Our hope is that this will become a discussion forum for training and curriculum issues for current apprentices. You will need to get a blogger id to post comments. We intend to post the same kinds of material that is on the jatc112.org website but in a way that is more interactive and less burdensome to update. Please keep the language appropriate and the content within the scope of the purpose. Politics of the local can wait for a better venue. I hope you enjoy and use this tool.

Greg