During the past year, Adult Education has made significant upgrades to the HVAC and Maintenance program training labs necessary to providing students with the in-demand industry training they need to succeed.
The upgraded training equipment came from Buckeye Educational Systems. These “trainers,” as they are referred to in the industry, allow HVAC instructor Rod Havens to control them from an app on his phone.
He can set the problems so that students can troubleshoot and learn how to fix many of the issues they will run into when they move on in their careers.
Buckeye Educational Systems was so impressed with the work Rod was doing and the success he was having training students with its equipment that Buckeye sent a crew to the Crouse Chapel Road campus to film instructional and promotional videos for its Web site (right).
Rod and some HVAC students were involved in the filming, demonstrating the features and uses of the app and how it can be integrated into the training scenarios of the curriculum.