Title: Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration II (17056-II)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
  WorkplaceReadinessSkillsPoster2019.pdf
Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
  Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
  Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
  Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
  Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Applying Basic Construction Safety Standards (Core Safety)
  Comply with federal, state, and local safety requirements.
  Identify personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements.
  Maintain a safe working environment.
  Identify emergency first-aid procedures.
  Explain safe working practices around electrical hazards.
  Identify the types of fires and the methods used to extinguish them.
  Inspect course-specific hand and power tools to visually identify defects.
  Demonstrate lifting and carrying techniques.
  Demonstrate safe laddering techniques.
  Demonstrate safe scaffolding techniques.
  Report personal injuries, environmental issues, and equipment safety violations to the appropriate authority.
  Demonstrate lockout and tagout procedures.
  Pass a safety test for lab/site safety and for specific tool use.
Understanding Motors and Controls
  Install a magnetic coil in the motor starter.
  Identify different types of motors.
  Remove or replace the fan motor, blower wheel, and motor.
  (Optional) Set the V-belt tension or replace.
  Check motor current (i.e., amps).
  (Optional) Lubricate bearings.
Servicing and Maintaining Fossil Fuel Heating Systems
  Describe different ignition methods in a fossil fuel heating system.
  Interpret customer heating complaints.
  Determine furnace efficiency through combustion analysis.
  Clean furnace and components.
  Test oil and gas safety controls.
  (Optional) Adjust the burner primary air on an oil furnace.
  Adjust the oil pump pressure.
  Identify the basic sequence of operation of a gas furnace.
  Replace an oil burner (chassis and air tube).
  Replace the oil burner motor.
  Replace the burner nozzle.
  Replace the fuel oil pump.
  Replace the oil filter cartridge.
  Adjust gas pressure.
  Test for gas leaks.
  Replace the gas orifice and gas burner.
  Replace the gas valve.
  Convert natural gas components to propane components, using a conversion kit.
Servicing and Maintaining Alternative Fuel Heating Systems
  Summarize the concepts of electric heat, heat pump, and hydronics heating systems.
  Calculate cubic feet per minute (CFM), using the temperature-rise method.
  Identify the components of each alternative system.
  (Optional) Purge air from a hydronics system (e.g., radiators).
Servicing and Maintaining Cooling Systems
  Interpret customer cooling complaints.
  Read various tools and instruments needed for checking, testing, operating, and troubleshooting air-conditioning systems.
  Measure the temperature difference across a coil.
  Describe the process for installing a condensing unit.
  Describe the process for installing an air-handler unit.
  Describe methods of charging the air-conditioning system, using various methods.
  Check the external components of the system.
Sizing and Installing Duct Systems
  Modify existing plenum for evaporator installation.
  Describe the installation of the branch duct takeoff from the main, using round metal duct and fittings.
  Describe the installation of a rectangular metal duct and fittings.
  Describe the installation of a round duct and fittings.
  Describe the installation of the main duct (rectangular rigid fiberglass) and fittings.
  Determine the optimal air flow based on the size of the unit/equipment and the duct.
Complying with EPA Laws and Regulations
  Identify regulations affecting ozone depletion and global warming.
  Identify the evacuation requirements for small appliances.
  Detect noncondensables, using the pressure and temperature relationship (i.e., the P/T chart).
  Install both high- and low-side access valves when recovering refrigerant from small appliances with inoperative compressors.
  Recover refrigerants with system-dependent (passive) and self-contained (active) recovery methods.
  Remove the solderless access fitting at the conclusion of service.
  Identify annual leak rates for commercial and industrial process refrigeration and for other appliances containing more than 50 pounds of refrigerant.
  Identify high-pressure and low-pressure recovery techniques and requirements.
  Identify the components of high-pressure and low-pressure appliances and state of refrigerant.
  Identify pressure-temperature relationships of high-pressure and low-pressure refrigerants.
  Identify EPA recordkeeping requirements for refrigerant handling and disposal.
  Obtain the EPA Section 608 certification.
Exploring Emerging HVACR Technologies and Industry Considerations
  Describe design choices for a proposed HVACR project that reflect an efficient use of energy.
  Describe design choices for a proposed HVACR system that reflect an efficient use of water.
  Describe design choices that can affect indoor air quality for proposed HVACR projects.
  (Optional) Describe the history and definition of direct digital control (DDC) systems.
  Install a programmable controller.
  Describe emerging technology and energy-management options in the industry.
Exploring R-410A
  Distinguish between an R-22 and an R-410A system and the requirements of each.
  Describe the safety issues related to working with R-410A systems and components.
  Identify the benefits of R-410A systems.
ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION
  8504 Student Competency Record_Copyright 2020.xlsx
  8504 Standards Correlations.pdf
  8504 Credentials-Sequences-Clusters.pdf
  8503 8504 Acknowledgments and Copyright.pdf