Congratulations to all faculty on completing another school year!!
Here are some highlights from our members:
Northwest Mississippi Community College (Senatobia, MS)
– NMCC’s HVACR program is PAHRA-accredited and a member of the Council of Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Educators (CARE).
– The full-time instructors are NATE-certified, and Josh Buchanan and Whit Perry attended AHRI’s 16th annual Instructor Workshop in Lansdowne, VA.
– A new building will house the HVACR department, along with the Tool and Die & Welding programs. With additional space available, they hope to add some more advanced courses.
Whit Perry – Senior Instructor, HVACR Technology
Northwest Mississippi Community College
4975 Hwy 51 North; Tech 3 AC Shop
P.O. Box 5362
Senatobia, MS 38668
662-562-3888, wperry@northwestms.edu
Upper Valley Joint Vocational School (Piqua, Ohio)
– The Applied Technology Center (Adult Ed) of the Upper Valley JVS in Piqua, Ohio, has partnered with HRAI Skilltech Academy to provide their students an opportunity for training and certification as Residential Mechanical Ventilation installers. The training is based on the National Building Code, ANSI/ASHRAE standard 62.2-2007 and 2008 Supplement and the CSA F-326 Standard “Residential Mechanical Ventilation Requirements.” At the conclusion of this course the students will be given the opportunity to take a certification exam.
Bill Tegeler – HVAC/R & Industrial Engineering Coordinator
Upper Valley JVS
8901 Looney Road
Piqua, Ohio 45356
937.778.8419, tegelerb@uvjvs.org
Georgia Piedmont Technical College (Clarkston, GA)
– For its Building Automation program, GPTC has developed a distance-learning option combining live, online video lectures with multiple-day, intensive lab sessions on campus.
– To foster interdisciplinary collaborations, HVAC students work on projects with engineering majors as well as students and faculty from other campuses such as GA Tech.
Brian J. Lovell – Director, Sustainable Technologies Academy / Bldg.
Automation Systems
Georgia Piedmont Technical College
495 N. Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021
404-297-9522 ext. 1265, lovellb@dekalbtech.edu
Laney College (Oakland, CA)
– Its Commercial HVAC major was accepted for articulation to Penn College of Technology’s B.S. program in Bldg. Science and Sustainable Design. Meanwhile, the new Building Automation Systems program became fully state-accredited in March and will articulate with Penn College’s Bldg. Automation Technology major as well as Bldg. Science and Sustainable Design.
– Laney also hosted a national workshop for HVAC, building automation, and energy management instructors/coordinators, Jan. 6-7, 2011. Discussion centered around each school’s respective programs, developing industry partnerships, certifications & accreditations, and current trends in bldg. operations & the bldg. performance industry.
Guest attendees included Patrick Heeb (Long Beach CC), Rick Creed (Mt San Antonio College), David Schmidt (Mt. Wachusett CC), Angela Lewis (Building Intelligence Group), Fariborz Saniee & Keith Mueller (City College SF), Brian Lovell (DeKalb Technical College), Joanne Chu (GA State Univ.), Craig Barnett (LA Trade-Tech), Greg Jourdan (Wenatchee Valley College), George Berghorn, Sean Huberty & Stephen Vossler (Lansing CC); representatives from Laney included Dean Peter Crabtree, Nick Kyriakopedi (ECT Dept Chair), Barbara Widhalm, Larry Chang, Chuck Frost, Adan Rosillo, Hadley Hartshorn, Roger Goetsch, & Bruce Douglas.
– The completion of the HVAC/R lab was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 21, 2011. Faculty, students, industry advisors, and Laney College president Dr. Elnora Webb toured the lab and discussed how best to move forward together with technician training both in and outside of the classroom.
Nick Kyriakopedi – Environ. Control Technology department chair
Laney College
900 Fallon St.
Oakland, CA 94607