Users' Guide to the National Electrical Code : Understanding & Applying the NEC 2008

Larry Van Wert has taught the National Electrical Code for more than forty years. He is the founder, contractor, and partner of his own electrical contracting business, Van Wert Electric L.L.C., located in Flushing, Michigan. He has taught the electrical code at his training facility in Flushing, Michigan, in colleges and high schools throughout Michigan, as well as in seminars throughout the United States. He has done numerous train-the-trainer programs during his career. He has taught programmable controllers within General Motors facilities, at IBEW training sessions, and at colleges for more than thirty years. He received his bachelors of education degree from Ferris State University in Post-Secondary Industrial Technical Electrical Education and is registered with the College of Higher Education of the United States. He is presently training electricians within Ford Motor Company on National Electrical Code. He has been an instructor for Mott Community College, M-TEC (a division of the University of Michigan), Baker College, Delta College, Washtenaw Community College, Wayne State University, Henry Ford Community College, and Mott Adult High School-Flint. His field of expertise is vast in that he has taught: industrial workplace safety; hazardous locations training; basic electrical; residential and commercial wiring; blueprint reading; estimating; basic and advanced electronics; board level electronic repair; digital logic; microprocessor controls; programmable controllers; motors and motor controls; grounding and bonding; National Electrical Code; basic mathematics; algebra; trigonometry; physics and chemistry. He assisted in setting up the Apprentice Health and Safety training programs for General Motors in Michigan and assisted the engineering staff for General Motors on the concepts of flexible manufacturing.