Students become skilled specialists that create, install, and maintain healthy, comfortable environments where people work, shop, and live. These heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration skills are developed through hands-on experiences in our spacious lab with the most up-to-date technology and equipment. 

• Understand residential and light commercial heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and DDC controls.

• Learn the science of refrigeration technologies.

• Develop skills through hands-on experience with the latest technologies.

• Become familiar with environmental controls systems.

• Troubleshoot heating and cooling system failures.

• Work with sheet metal and learn soldering and brazing skills.

The Upper Valley Career Center HVAC/R program is NCCER (National Center for Construction Education and Research) certified and nationally recognized for excellence and innovation.

Please note: Navy button up work shirt is required as daily uniform.

• Science of Refrigeration

• Sheet Metal

• Soldering and Brazing

• Electrical Wiring (High and Low Voltage)

• Control Systems

• Heating and Cooling Repair

• Soft Skills

• Workplace Safety

• Carrier | Manufacturing - Indianapolis, IN

• Slagle Mechanical

• Rieck Services

• Sheet Metal Workers Local 24

• Helix Innovation Center at Emerson Climate Technologies