(Left to Right) Todd Shadden, vice president and general manager for Century A/C Supply, and Brian Sanders, Collin College HVAC lead professor, are excited for Collin College students to begin using the new HVAC equipment donated by Century A/C Supply.
April 9, 2018- Collin College’s new Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) program recently received an equipment donation valued at more than $30,000 from Century A/C Supply. Housed at the Princeton ISD HVAC lab, the new residential HVAC equipment includes outdoor condensing units, 18 Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) heat pumps, modulating gas furnaces and the controls to operate them.
“It is about community,” said Todd Shadden, vice president and general manager for Century A/C Supply. “We are donating enough equipment to stock four labs. Our technician pool has gotten really lean. Now, colleges are pushing people back to the trades. You can go to college for a year and a half and get a job making $50,000-$60,000 annually. We are really trying to help bring good people into our industry.”
According to Brian Sanders, Collin College HVAC lead professor, Collin College has 30 dual credit students and 18 night students currently taking HVAC classes at Princeton ISD.
“With this generous donation, the Princeton ISD lab is competitive to any lab or training facility in the area. We have the hands-on training equipment right here for Collin College dual credit and night students.”
Collin College HVAC class sizes are limited to the first 12 registrants. Fall registration opens April 17. For more information about Collin College HVAC classes, contact Brian Sanders at bsanders@collin.edu.
Collin College serves more than 53,000 credit and continuing education students annually and offers more than 100 degrees and certificates. The only public college in the county, Collin College is a partner to business, government and industry, providing customized training and work force development. In addition, the college operates the Collin Higher Education Center, which serves 3,200 additional students each year in partnership with The University of Texas at Dallas, Texas Woman’s University, Texas A&M Commerce, Texas Tech and the University of North Texas.