HVAC Training
Online heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) training courses are designed for beginning as well as advanced professionals working in the nation's industries that install, repair, and maintain heating and cooling systems. If you join this high-demand career group, you may find yourself working in both the public or private sectors.

HVAC technicians are employed by heating, cooling, refrigeration, and ventilation companies as installers or repair personnel. You can also find work as a designated HVAC service employee with major corporations, or at installations in business, manufacturing, health care, industrial, governmental, educational, and other buildings or power facilities.

Trained HVAC technicians are also hired by utility companies, cold storage firms, major appliance manufacturers and retailers, as well as with food, flower, and drug store chains that rely on the efficient operations of walk-in coolers.

Mastering Your HVAC Skills
Online HVAC Training courses allow professionals to study at their own pace, moving up in technical competency as they go along. Classes can include detailed studies in commercial or industrial refrigeration and heating, air conditioning technology, automatic and programmed control systems, environmental refrigerant regulations, venting, residential heat and cooling, electric motors, and appliance installation and repair.

You can also take test-preparation courses or advanced training that helps you take national licensing examinations, including the NATE (North American Technician Excellence) Core Exam or the ICE (Industry Competency Exam) offered by the Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Institute.

According to the Department of Labor, job prospects for trained HVAC technicians should be "excellent" over the decade, 2006-2016.