Heat pump systems are heating and cooling systems that transfer heat from one place to another instead of generating it, so a single unit can both warm and cool a building. At InterCoast Colleges, they are studied together with air conditioning and automatic controls in the HVAC Technician program.
What it covers
The catalog describes the course this way: “An overview of air-conditioning and automatic controls.”
Topics covered include comfort and psychometrics, refrigeration applied to air-conditioning, residential energy auditing, typical operating conditions, troubleshooting, and automatic control components, applications, and troubleshooting.
Which program covers it
In InterCoast Colleges’ HVAC Technician program, heat pump systems is covered in the course HVAC104, Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems.
The HVAC Technician outline lists HVAC104 Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems at 90 clock hours (60 lecture, 30 laboratory) and 5 semester credits.
Prerequisites for HVAC104: “Completion of the equivalent of ATP104, ATP105, ATP106”.
This topic is covered in the HVAC Technician program at InterCoast Colleges.