Course Descriptions

Renewable Energies and Energy Management

Past students varied in age from 18 to their 80s and from HVAC technician, facilities manager, builder, architect and engineer to interested citizen, consumer and career trainee. 

The Renewable Energies and Energy Management courses were used as a basis for a national model energy curriculum designed with Department of Energy funds (www.ateec.org/energy) .  The creator and instructor of those OCC courses, Dr. Debra Rowe, was the chief author for that national model curriculum.  Dr. Rowe has been consulting with colleges throughout the U.S., helping them set up similar courses and programs in cooperation with PETE (www.ateec.org/pete), a national consortium of community colleges focusing on environmental technologies. (She is also Senior Fellow with the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (www.ulsf.org).

AET 2010   Credits: 4  Title: Solar and Other Renewable Energy Systems
AET 2400   Credits: 4  Title: Energy Management
AET 2424   Credits: 4  Title: Independent Research in Automated Building Systems
AET 2510   Credits: 4  Title: Direct Digital Controls

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

TER 1114   Credits: 4  Title: Introduction to Refrigeration
TER 1120   Credits: 3  Title: Sheet Metal Layout and Fabrication
TER 1150   Credits: 4  Title: Basic Principles of HVACR Controls
TER 1210   Credits: 4  Title: Domestic and Commercial Refrigeration
TER 1220   Credits: 3  Title: Commercial Refrigeration II
TER 1310   Credits: 4  Title: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Design I
TER 1390   Credits: 4  Title: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Design II
TER 1430   Credits: 4  Title: Residential and Commercial Control Systems
TER 1522   Credits: 2  Title: Refrigeration Code
TER 1610   Credits: 4  Title: Forced Air Heating Systems
TER 1630   Credits: 4  Title: Steam and Hot Water Heating Systems
TER 1650   Credits: 2  Title: Troubleshooting Air Conditioning
TER 1700   Credits: 2  Title: Heating Regulations
TER 1800   Credits: 4  Title: Advanced Controls