I-TAP'S HANDS-ON ELECTRICAL LAB
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Real-World Training That Gives You the Real-World Skills You Need to Succeed as a Commercial Electrician
Becoming an electrician requires considerable schooling. The state of California requires that apprentice and trainee electricians complete at least 750 hours of vocational training. The majority of these hours take place in the classroom, where electrical students learn about electrical theory, safety, and more. Even though most time is dedicated to bookwork, that doesn’t mean hands-on learning isn’t just as important. Hands-on training gives you the real-world skills you need to be prepared for working in the field.
Why is I-TAP's Electrical Lab One of the Best Labs of Any Electrical School's?
We've spent 20 years creating the perfect indoor and outdoor spaces for our electrical students to master the basic jobsite skills they need.
Pretty much every electrical school has some sort of electrical lab, which is a workspace where electrical trainee students and apprentices gain real-world, hands-on experience working as an electrician. Unlike a real job site, an electrical lab is a controlled environment. The lab is configured based on your current lesson, and a teacher is always around to teach and supervise as you work.
No one offers a hands-on lab experience like I-TAP. Our students work in a 3,000 square foot office complex that gives them real-world experience.
Our labs include:
- A/B, 1 pole, 3-Way and 4-Way Switching
- Beginning and Advanced Pipe Bending
- Drawing & Design
- Fire Alarm
- Generators
- Instrumentation
- Intro to PLCs
- Lighting Control
- Low Voltage Cable: Telephone/Data
- Motor Control Stop/ Start/ Mag Starter
- Motor Control: Grain Elevator
- Motors ID: Hookup Winding Components
- Meters/Test Equipment Throughout Program
- Title 24: Motion Sensors
- Plan Reading
- Power Tools/Hand Tools
- Transformers
Learn the tricks of the trade from instructors with real experience.
Most of I-TAP's instructors have decades of experience working as commercial electricians, and at the end of their careers have chosen to give back to the industry they love by training the next generation of electricians. That means that when you work in our lab, you work under the guidance of true experts.
WORK UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF EXPERTS
Our hand-picked instructors have worked as commercial electricians for decades. And oftentimes, they stay with us for decades more.
IT FEELS LIKE A REAL JOBSITE BECAUSE IT IS ONE
There's nothing like the real thing when it comes to learning the skills of the trade, and there's no lab more real than I-TAP's.
You Get to Complete a Full Tenant Improvement Project From Start to Finish
For the last 5 weeks of instruction, students spend 100% of their time working on a tenant improvement project. That means that you get to learn how to work on a real job site, from drawing and designing plans, to running wire, to installing lightning controls and motions sensors, to fire alarm installation.
What better way to learn your trade than by working through the full process of a real project from start to finish?
Learn In Actual On (and Under) the Ground Environments
I-TAP has collaborated, in conjunction with Safetyville, to allow hands-on installation of underground safety conduit. At Safetyville, we use actual backhoes to trench and run underground conduit to gain real hands-on experience of what it takes to do the electrical underground.
WORK AND LEARN IN THE REAL WORLD
We've only upped our game when it comes to delivering a hands-on learning experience. Now we offer outdoor labs that give our students even more practical skills.
Ready to learn a skilled trade and work on some of the most exciting commercial construction projects in California and beyond?
I-TAP is an electrical apprenticeship program that helps you find your passion, grow your skills, and place you in the perfect electrician job.