Department Description
Objectives of the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration (HVAC/R) Specialization
The specialization aims to:
- Supply society and all types of business sectors with graduates possessing appropriate qualifications and skills according to the professional description for graduates of this department.
- The department works to provide the graduate with the necessary basic and specialized knowledge and skills in the field of specialization (heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration), in addition to the theoretical information required for the academic graduate, enabling the graduate to implement and operate central heating systems, air conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation systems, and solar water heaters, follow up on the inspection of completed installations and networks and document their compliance with approved specifications, prepare plans and programs for operating and maintaining central heating systems, air conditioning, refrigeration systems, and solar water heaters, and follow up on their implementation.
- The department works to support and develop the student's skills in diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults and repairing them, conducting appropriate measurements, understanding and analyzing technical bulletins from manufacturing companies, and using information systems and expert systems to support decision-making in institutions.
Inputs to the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Department:
First – Accepted for study in the first year of this department:
1. Holders of the Technical Secondary School Certificate in the following specializations:
a. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
b. Heating and Plumbing.
Provided that the secondary school certificate is obtained in the same year of enrollment and according to a special competition whose foundations and criteria are determined by the Higher Council for Technical Education.
2. A percentage of holders of the General Secondary Certificate – Scientific Branch.
The percentage and admission criteria are determined according to conditions set by the Higher Council for Technical Education.
Second – Accepted for study in the second year of this department:
A number of graduates of technical institutes (whose top graduates are accepted to continue their studies at government universities) according to percentages determined by the Higher Council for Technical Education. In this case, the student may be required to take up to four courses from the first year. This applies to the following specializations:
a. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Profession.
b. Heating and Plumbing Profession.
Certificate Awarded by the College:
A graduate of the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Department at the Applied College receives:
A Bachelor's degree in Applied Sciences – Specialization in Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration.
This qualification entitles its holder to work according to the professional description of the graduate as specified.
Professional Description of the Graduate:
Professional Title: Bachelor in Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration
Specialization: General
Field of Specialization: From the engineering sciences family, specialization in Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration
Technical Description (Work Fields):
Works independently or under the supervision of a specialized engineer in the field of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration.
Qualifications at the Start of Study:
- Vocational Secondary School Certificate in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Vocational Secondary School Certificate in Heating and Plumbing
- General Secondary Certificate – Scientific Branch
- Technical Institute Certificates accepted in the second year
Duration of Study: Four years
At the end of the study, the graduate receives a certificate:
Bachelor's in Applied Sciences – Specialization in Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration
And is able to accomplish the following tasks:
- Installing, maintaining, and operating heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment
- Installing and maintaining solar water heaters
- Extending networks for central heating systems and extending their piping and air duct networks for air conditioning and refrigeration systems
- Managing subordinates and identifying training needs and developing their skills
- Applying quality standards in the field of specialization
- Monitoring the application of occupational safety standards and environmental protection
Personal and Core Skills
1. Discipline and adherence to systems and laws, and demonstrating a personal commitment to professional standards and ethics.
2. Ability to use laboratory and field equipment, devices, and software safely and efficiently for systems related to the field of specialization.
3. Ability to engage in self-learning and adopt lifelong learning to keep up with rapid progress in the field of specialization.
4. Demonstrating a high level of competence in defining, identifying, and solving problems related to the field of specialization.
5. Ability to work in a stressful and time-critical work environment with changing constraints, to complete required tasks by deadlines, and to work within priorities.
6. Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and communicate with non-specialists.
7. Ability to manage tasks and resources effectively and efficiently.
8. Identifying risks to build and implement risk management systems.
9. Knowledge of a foreign language.
Specialized Skills:
1. Studying tenders for implementing and operating central heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation systems, and solar water heaters.
2. Estimating the quantities of required materials and equipment.
3. Calculating the implementation period.
4. Submitting price offers and installation and operation conditions.
5. Preparing execution plans for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems.
6. Preparing plans and programs for installing their equipment and devices.
7. Extending their networks, piping, and air duct networks.
8. Implementing and operating central heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation systems, and solar water heaters.
9. Managing work teams to implement equipment and device installations and extend networks in coordination with other specializations.
10. Following up on the inspection of completed installations, networks, and piping and documenting their compliance with approved specifications.
11. Preparing final as-built plans.
12. Preparing operation programs for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration system equipment and managing them.
13. Preparing preventive maintenance programs for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems and following up on their implementation.
14. Following up on the development of quality systems and standards.
15. Preparing technical reports.
16. Developing work procedures and methods using modern technologies.
17. Evaluating subordinate performance, identifying their training needs, training them, and developing their skills.
18. Providing occupational safety and health tools and means.
Lesson Plan for the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Department:
The lesson plan is implemented through theoretical lectures and practical lessons, both in-class and laboratory-based, including workshops. Students are required to implement small projects where possible in various courses to reinforce practical skills, as well as through field visits to work sites in economic institutions with activities related to the specializations of this department.
The department, through the college, works to ensure constructive communication with economic entities representing the labor market served by the specializations offered, and works to develop its study plans in line with changing market needs.
In this context, and to link the college's activities and educational programs with the labor market, and to provide the necessary technical services to the labor market and benefit from its capabilities in providing distinguished training for college students, the following is done:
- Hosting lecturers with specialization and experience from the labor market to deliver applied lectures (or discussion sessions) in various courses, with the topics of these lectures determined and implemented under the supervision of the course instructor.
- Determining graduation project topics, where possible, in coordination with and benefiting from the needs and capabilities of the labor market. These projects are implemented in coordination between the college and the supporting institution. In this case, an expert from the labor market may participate in supervision.
Distribution of the Lesson Plan:
Arabic is the language of instruction. One course may be taught in English in each of the third and fourth years.
Courses are distributed over the eight semesters, and their weekly hours are determined according to the schedules specified in Article (13). The college council may swap two courses from one semester to another within the same year.
Grades and Assessment and Success Criteria:
- The passing grade for each course in this department is determined as sixty out of one hundred from the maximum mark. A student is not considered successful if the course consists of two parts unless they obtain at least 40% in each part.
- The college council determines, based on the department council's recommendation, the distribution of coursework grades for student activity during the semester.
- The college council determines, based on the department council's recommendation, the method for conducting the theoretical exam (automated, traditional), practical, or both practical and theoretical.
- The graduation project is studied over two semesters in the fourth year and is considered one course, presented and discussed, and the student's final grade is determined at the end of the second semester.
- Scientific committees are formed in the department in each exam session to conduct scientific examinations for courses that are fully or partially practical, as well as to discuss graduation projects. These committees may include members from the labor market.
Lesson Plan
Article (13) – Distribution of Lesson Plan Courses for the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Department over the Years and Semesters as follows:
First Year
First Semester:
- Basic Mathematics: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Basic Physics: 4 theoretical + 2 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Applied Mechanics: 4 theoretical + 2 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Engineering Drawing: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 50% coursework, 50% theoretical exam.
- Arabic Language: 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- General Foreign Language (1): 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- Informatics: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 14 theoretical + 14 practical = 28 total hours.
Second Semester:
- Applied Mathematics: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Thermodynamics: 4 theoretical + 4 practical = 8 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Industrial Drawing: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 50% coursework, 50% theoretical exam.
- National Socialist Culture: 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- Mechanical Workshops: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 60% coursework, 40% theoretical exam.
- General Foreign Language (2): 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 18 theoretical + 12 practical = 30 total hours.
Second Year
First Semester:
- Specialized Foreign Language: 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- Heat Transfer: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Fundamentals of Electricity: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Principles of Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Measuring Instruments: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Computer-Aided Drawing: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 12 theoretical + 16 practical = 28 total hours.
Second Semester:
- Central Heating: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Fluid Mechanics: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Fundamentals of Refrigeration: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Industrial Electricity (Drive and Control): 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Central Air Conditioning: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Thermal Insulation: 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 12 theoretical + 16 practical = 28 total hours.
Third Year
First Semester:
- Protection and Control Devices: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Steam Generators: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Heating Equipment: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Industrial Refrigeration: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Renewable Energy in Heating and Air Conditioning: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Industrial Safety and Occupational Health: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 12 theoretical + 16 practical = 28 total hours.
Second Semester:
- Applied Project (Workshop Attachment): 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 60% coursework, 40% theoretical exam.
- Principles of Energy Management in Buildings: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Air Conditioning Equipment: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Refrigeration Equipment: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Environmental Standards for Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, and Heating Systems: 2 theoretical hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- Refrigeration with Alternative Systems: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 12 theoretical + 16 practical = 28 total hours.
Fourth Year
First Semester:
- Graduation Project 1: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours.
- Air Conditioning and Ventilation Systems: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Maintenance and Operation of Central Heating Equipment: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Maintenance and Operation of Air Conditioning Equipment: 4 theoretical + 4 practical = 8 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Examples of Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Systems: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 30% coursework, 70% theoretical exam.
- Industrial Project Management: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
Total weekly hours: 14 theoretical + 18 practical = 32 total hours.
Second Semester:
- Graduation Project 2: 4 theoretical + 8 practical = 12 total hours. Grade distribution: 80% coursework, 120% theoretical exam (total 200 marks).
- Quality Systems and Standards: 2 theoretical + 2 practical = 4 total hours. Grade distribution: 20% coursework, 80% theoretical exam.
- Maintenance and Operation of Refrigeration Equipment: 2 theoretical + 4 practical = 6 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.
- Execution Plans for Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Systems: 4 theoretical + 4 practical = 8 total hours. Grade distribution: 40% coursework, 60% theoretical exam.