IDE is modulized to allow flexibility with your schedule. Choose Unit A or Unit B, or both.
Class will be from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. all days and adjourns at 2:30 p.m. on the last day.
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Unit AFundamental Utility Engineering Perspectives - Specifications, standards, and codes
System Design & Build - Overhead Distribution Design
- Construction grades/NESC issues
- Underground Distribution Design
- Underground Equipment
- Switches
- Service Design Issues for new Consumers
- Grounding
- Voltage Transformation/Regulation
- Metering
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Unit BSystem Planning & Operation - Long-range plans
- Construction work plan
- Contingency planning
Engineering analysis/System design- Load flow analysis
- Diversity, load factors
- Power quality issues
System losses- Line losses
- Transformer losses
- Economic impact of losses
System Protection- Sectionalizing/fuses/relaying
- Over voltage protection
Engineering Business Requirements- Work order processing
- Plant accounting
- Operating report/balance sheet
- RUS field audit process
- Work order inspection process
Regulatory Issues for Engineering- Environmental compliance issues
- Regulatory Issues
- Joint Use and Pole attachments
Grid Modernization- Technologies
- Options and systems
- Communication system needs
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Hotel & Travel
Fluno Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison
601 University Ave., Madison, WI 53715-1035
877-773-5866 or 608-441-7117
Rate: $157 USD/Night. This includes full breakfast each morning and high-speed internet. If you need parking, be sure to ask for that when making your reservation. Parking is an additional charge and the Fluno staff can provide all the details on this.
When contacting Fluno, let them know that you are looking for a room in the blocks with the following names:
- IDE Unit A - deadline to reserve: June 26, 2021
- IDE Unit B - deadline to reserve: September 25, 2021
We encourage you to make your hotel reservations now.
After these deadlines, the room block will be released and special program rates will not longer be in effect. Hotel confirmation information will be sent by the Fluno Center Staff.
Please contact them directly if you do not receive that information.