PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR CERTIFICATION

The Academy, as a division of Collaborative Learning Inc., has formed partnerships to bring you the best in live, online certification training with highly experienced instructors. These courses are designed to improve the knowledge of line design professionals and prepare them for certification examinations. Each of the live courses you attend will be recorded and you will be given free access to the videos. 

Colleges and universities do not provide college credit for line design training courses mainly because electrical, mechanical, civil and structural college credit courses are already established for these engineering professions.  Customized training is the preferred method to improve the skills for professional engineers and line design technicians in subject matter trades. 

CL-Academy-APPA Overhead Distribution Line Design Certificate

The purpose of this certificate program is to provide an opportunity for individuals to demonstrate and be recognized
for their knowledge of overhead distribution line design.

Certification Requirements

1. Successful completion of the following courses 
   offered by APPA and Collaborative Learning’s Academy
   for Utility Line Design Professionals:
   
   Level 1: Overhead Distribution Principles
                  and Applications.
                  Recommended CEUs 2/PDHs 17.5/CPEs 21
                    (Click for next scheduled date)
   
   Level 2: Best Practices in Overhead
                  Distribution Line Design
                  Recommended CEUs 2.4/PDHs 24/CPEs 28.8 
                  (Click for next scheduled date)
   
   These courses will be offered at least once per calendar year (twice per year enrollments permitting). We highly recommend that these courses be scheduled in sequence during the same 6-to-12-month period.
    
2. Successful completion of a comprehensive online examination consisting of not less than 100 questions. Some of the questions will involve calculations typically encountered in the design of overhead distribution lines. Other questions will cover knowledge of overhead line components and equipment, structure and assembly unit standards, rights-of-way, NESC requirements, electrical design practices (insulation coordination and grounding), conductor/cable design practices, structural design practices, and engineering design ethics.
   
   Candidates for certification are allowed two (2) attempts to score a passing grade of 70% on the examination. 
   
   
3. Submittal and acceptance of a completed overhead line design project. It is preferred that this be an actual project for which the certification applicant was the engineer or designer in responsible charge of the design or completed the design under the direct supervision of the responsible charge engineer or designer. The project will require the following design elements to be performed and described in a summary report that is supplemented by drawings and other components of the design package that are typically prepared for the applicant’s employer. 
   
   a.  Line routing and right-of-way determination
   b.  Location of poles 
   c.  Conductor selection and design (sag & tension
        calculations and preparation of stringing chart
        for field crews
   d.  Specification of pole-top configurations
   e.  Specification of pole height and class based on 
        NESC or G.O. 95 clearance and loading/strength
        requirements
   f.  Specification of guying assemblies and minimum
        guy lead (if required)
   g.  Material list
   
   

All certification requirements are to be completed within a period of twenty-four (24) months starting from the date when the applicant completes the first of the required courses.