Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (Clark County CTC)
Springfield-Clark County Career Technology Center
This program is available at the Clark County CTC location.Students completing the Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technology program are prepared to find employment with large commercial heating and air conditioning contractors, residential mechanical contractors, parts and equipment distributors, large commercial and industrial facility maintenance departments, hospital facilities maintenance departments, custom design or new construction markets.
The associate degree program offers the training needed to develop a high degree of technical skill, as well as the ability to work with minimal supervision and a strong sense of personal responsibility.
This program is taught in Springfield at the Springfield-Clark Career Technology Center (CTC) (1901 Selma Road) near our Leffel Lane location. General education courses not offered at Springfield-Clark CTC may be completed online or at one of Clark State's locations in Springfield, Bellefontaine or Beavercreek.
Embedded Certificate
This degree program contains one or more embedded certificates which will automatically be awarded if the certificate requirements are met unless the student contacts Records and Registration and indicates he/she does not wish to have the certificate credential awarded.
Outcomes and Curriculum
Upon completion of an associate degree in Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Technology, a graduate will be able to:
- Explain thermodynamics, heat, fluids, and pressures for refrigeration and EPA compliance.
- Prescribe the procedures for making electrical measurements.
- Diagnose and repair gas, electric, fuel oil furnaces and air conditioners - heat pump.
- Determine testing and analyzing instruments for troubleshooting and calculating the combustion process.
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Stuart Hess Instructor, HVAC Business and Applied Technologies