HVAC Technician
Today's HVAC careers are in demand and within your reach. This field prepares graduates for careers in HVAC Technician installing, repairing and maintaining heating, air conditioning and refrigeration systems. These jobs are typically full-time. Work environments can include schools, hospitals, business sites, offices, homes, and sometimes multiple locations in the same day. Most work takes place indoors, but includes outdoor tasks also. Working evenings, weekends, and holidays can be required in emergency situations.
What Do HVAC Graduates Do?
HVAC technicians install, repair and maintain heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems.
Class Offerings
We proudly offer the following courses from Eastern Arizona College. For additional information about individual courses, please review the EAC’s academic catalog or speak with your guidance counselor. (Most course info is on pages 145 and 146.)
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First Semester
- Principles of HVAC-R (HVA 101)
This course gives a history of HVAC-R development. Students learn the relationship between pressure and temperature, and heat transfer and become familiar with different types of HVAC-R units.
4 credits
- HVAC-R Controls (HVA 103)
This course teaches about the different controls that enable the HVAC-R units to operate as designed. The knowledge gained will provide the student with a greater understanding of HVAC-R controls. This will enable the student to work on and repair all major types of HVAC-R units.
4 credits
- Electricity for HVAC-R (HVA 110)
This course is designed for the application of concepts to the real world of HVAC-R. The course is designed with detailed electrical procedures, basic electrical concepts, reading of circuits and meters, identification of components, symbols, and wiring diagrams used in air conditioning control systems, installation of contacts, relays, and overloads as well as troubleshooting applicable to the field of HVAC-R technology.
3 credits
Second Semester
- Heating System Basics (HVA 105)
This course teaches the different types of heating units used in all applications of the HVAC industry. The knowledge will enable the student to be able to work on and repair all major brands of heating units and will enable the student to maintain a well-paid career.
3 credits
- Troubleshooting HVAC-R Systems (HVA 109)
This course teaches the students the techniques required for servicing and repairing all forms of HVAC systems. The student will become familiar with being able to determine what is wrong in a given circumstance by evaluating what is wrong with information the student has learned. This knowledge will also enable the student to maintain a well paying career.
4 credits
- EPA Certification (HVA 115)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be eligible to take the nationally recognized EPA Universal certification that will allow the individual to perform system evacuations of various cooling gases in the field of refrigeration technology.
1 credit
