MVCTC Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Program

Clayton, Ohio – The Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) program allows students to earn nationally recognized certificates in refrigerant handling (EPA test) and an industry competency certificate (ICE exam).

MVCTC HVAC students participate in the international Career Technical Student Organization, SkillsUSA. The students compete in the HVAC and sheet metal competition at the local, state and national levels. Last year, 2013 HVAC Student, Chris Singer (New Lebanon) placed second in the nation in the Sheet Metal Contest.

HVAC students learn to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot furnaces and air conditioning equipment. They learn to use electric meters, refrigerant gauges, soldering torches and many more HVAC specific equipment. HVAC students also learn the sheet metal trade where they build metal fabricated ducts.

HVAC students are able to participate in the MVCTC Apprenticeship program, if they maintain good grades and great attendance. They earn and learn the trade. This school year HVAC students are apprenticing at many local businesses such as Barga Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration, Inc.; Waibel Energy Systems; and Ed Rike Plumbing.

After completing the program, students have taken jobs as service technicians, furnace/air conditioning installers, or sheet metal installers/fabricators. Some students have continued their education after high school and have been employed as engineers and sales associates. A few have started and operate their own successful businesses.

The HVAC program, allows students that qualify to receive college credit and a scholarship to continue their education at Sinclair Community College.

Chris Springer, Class of 2014 from Tipp City, is currently working as an Apprenticeship Student for Waibel Energy Systems in Vandalia. Chris has had the opportunity to gain hands on experiecne in a well paying job while still in high school. He will graduate from MVCTC in the spring having earned industry certifications in HVAC and plumbing systems and has a head start on his career.

Phil Riesenberg, Waibel Energy Systems, has been very happy with Chris as an Apprenticeship Students and shares that working with MVCTC has been a postive experience and easy to coordinate. Phil shared, “MVCTC teaches students basic skills for the workforce and prepares them to be well-rounded young technicians.”

Tim Springer, Chris Springer’s father, shared, “Before attending MVCTC, Chris had no plans for his future. MVCTC has given him an opporunity and skills for a career.”

Based on the 2011 follow-up data (the most recent reported by the state), 100% of MVCTC HVAC students were employed, in the military, or enrolled in college or advanced training after leaving MVCTC. This program also reported 100% program completion and 100% academic attainment in math, reading, and science.

The MVCTC HVAC program provides the students with a wide variety of experiences and skills to attain a career in the heating and air industry. A career in HVAC can lead to a variety of jobs that are needed in many places in the world. The U.S. labor reports that in coming years there will be a need for as many as twenty thousand HVAC workers. Wages are good and advancement opportunities are excellent in the HVAC trade. Average HVAC wages are in the forty thousand range with top wages being in the hundreds of thousands.

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning being your career can provide you with an excellent income with a wide variety of experiences. Everyone needs the services that you can provide as an HVAC trades’ person. There are no shortages of opportunities as an HVAC person.

For more information about MVCTC, please visit www.mvctc.com.