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The Plumbing/Pipefitting Curriculum by Year
First Year
- Your heritage and future in the pipe trades
- Use and care of tools
- Piping materials
- Job safety and health
- OSHA 10-hour class
- Soldering and brazing
- Oxy-fuel cutting and welding
- Mathematics
- Rigging and signaling
Second Year
- Related science
- Drawing interpretation and building plans
- Basic electricity
- Shielded metal arc welding
Note: After the second year, you will choose a curriculum specialty
and focus on it during the last three years of the Program, either
Plumbing or Pipefitting.
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Third Year Plumbing
- Plumbing
- Mathematics
- Water supply
- Drainage
- Repair and service lab
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Third Year Pipefitting
- Electric controls 1
- Steam systems
- Refrigeration
- Conservation and safe handling of refrigerants core type 1 and
2
- Hydronic systems
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Fourth Year Plumbing
- Advanced plan reading and related drawing
- Plumbing fixtures
- Gas installations
- Plumbing code
- Service work and special installations
- Installation, repair and maintenance of other than standard
bath room fixtures
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Fourth Year Pipefitting
- Advanced plan reading
- Air conditioning 1
- Conservation and safe handling of refrigerants
- EPA certification type three and universal
- Shielded metal arc welding leading to certification
- Valve repair training
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Fifth Year Plumbing
- Sleeve drawing and deck layout
- Drawing coordination
- Instruments used for piping layout
- Medical gas systems
- Certified medical gas installer and brazer certification
- Backflow prevention and cross-connection control certifications
tester
- Repair and maintenance
- Surveys and inspections
- Leadership courses
- Computer aided drawing (CAD) computer classes
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Fifth Year Pipefitting
- Electric controls 2
- Introduction to start test and balance
- Instrumentation and process controls
- Instruments used for piping layout
- Advanced welding procedures
- MIG, TIG and orbital
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