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California Members: Encourage Your Electrician Trainees to Keep Working Toward Their Certs This Fall

Thursday, September 18, 2025

California Member Contractors: Encourage Your Electrician Trainees to Keep Working Toward Their WECA Program Certificates

If Your Trainees Prefer Instructor-Led to Self-Paced Classes, Here Are Some Early October Instructor-Led Classes with Seats Still Available

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GetWired 104: Special Systems & Single-Phase Transformer Theory in Residential Electrical Applications

Our next instructor-led GetWired 104 classes start Oct 1




 

GetWired 104: Special Systems & Single-Phase Transformer Theory in Residential Electrical Applications, is the fourth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 104 with On-Site Lab, starting Oct. 1, here!

OR

Instructor-Led GetWired 104 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 1, here!

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GetWired 201: Introduction to Alternating Current, Branch Circuits, and Feeder/Service Calculations

Our next instructor-led GetWired 201 classes start Oct. 7




GetWired 201: Introduction to Alternating Current, Branch Circuits, and Feeder/Service Calculations, is the fifth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 201 with On-Site Lab, starting Oct. 7, here!

OR

Instructor-Led GetWired 201 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 7, here!

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GetWired 202: Three-Phase Electrical Systems, Conductors and Overcurrent Protection, Grounding, Wiring Methods, Basic Trigonometry and Vectors

Our next instructor-led GetWired 202 class starts Oct. 6

GetWired 202: Three-Phase Electrical Systems, Conductors and Overcurrent Protection, Grounding, Wiring Methods, Basic Trigonometry and Vectors, is the sixth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

This 36-hour course expands on the concepts and skills built in the 201 courses. Topics covered include:

  • Conductors and overcurrent protection
  • Types of three-phase transformers
  • Three-phase transformer calculations and connections
  • Grounding
  • Wiring methods
  • Basic trigonometry and vectors
  • Sizing branch circuits lab
 
  • Total class hours available: 36
  • Standard Tuition Fee: $389

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 202 with On-Site Lab, starting Oct. 6, here!

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GetWired 203: Raceway Systems, Switchboards and Panelboards, DC Motors, Three-Phase Alternators and Motors 

Our next instructor-led GetWired 201 classes start Oct. 7




 

GetWired 203: Raceway Systems, Switchboards and Panelboards, DC Motors, Three-Phase Alternators and Motors, is the seventh course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 203 with On-Site Lab, starting Oct. 7, here!

OR

Instructor-Led GetWired 203 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 7, here!

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GetWired 204: Transformers, Special Locations and Single-Phase Motors

Our next instructor-led GetWired 204 classes start Oct. 6




 

GetWired 204: Transformers, Special Locations and Single-Phase Motors, is the eighth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 204 with On-Site Lab, starting Oct. 6, here!

OR

Instructor-Led GetWired 204 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 6, here!

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GetWired 301: Blueprint Reading Part 1: Electrical Work for Commercial Construction from the Ground Up, Part 1

Our next instructor-led GetWired 301 class starts Oct. 7




 

GetWired 301: Blueprint Reading Part 1: Electrical Work for Commercial Construction from the Ground Up, Part 1, is the ninth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 301 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 7, here!

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GetWired 302: Blueprint Reading Part 2: Electrical Work for Commercial Construction from the Ground Up

Our next instructor-led GetWired 301 class starts Oct. 6

GetWired 302: Blueprint Reading Part 2: Electrical Work for Commercial Construction from the Ground Up, is the tenth course in the path to an Electrician Trainee Program Certificate with WECA.

Encourage your employees to enroll in Instructor-Led GetWired 302 with Online Lab, starting Oct. 6, here!