2024 - 2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Oct 18, 2024  
2024 - 2025 Catalog and Student Handbook

Utility Line Technology


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Program Contact: Leigh Burks
Office: 1355 MLK Dr., Robinson Center, Silsbee, TX
Phone: (409) 245-8346
E-mail: utility@lit.edu

The 34 SCH Utility Line Technology Program prepares students to work in the power line industry as apprentice linemen. The curriculum includes the design and function of electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, substations, transformers, capacitors, voltage regulators, system protection, and metering. Program objectives include troubleshooting outages and voltage problems; identification and use of tools, materials, equipment; proper work and safety procedures; and operation of utility line trucks.

The Utility Line Technology Program is thirty-two (32) weeks in length and begins in August and January each year. The Utility Line Technology Program is taught at the Robinson Center in Silsbee, Texas.

Interested students must make a 4 in the WorkKeys Workplace Documents and Applied Math. Contact the Testing Center at 409-247-4978 or testingcenter@lit.edu for more information about testing.

Interested students must be able to climb tall utility poles, handle highly energized utility lines, and be eligible to earn a Texas Commercial Driver's License.

Students who successfully complete the recommended program of study will receive a Certificate in Utility Line Technology.

Students must successfully complete an OSHA certification exam. All courses in the Recommended Program of Study require a grade of 'C' or better.

Awards

    Associate of Applied Science
    Level I Certificate

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