D. Brian Baker, CMS founder and instructor of Westech Energy Training Center, announced the graduates of the Manitoba Provincial 5th Class Power Engineer’s Exam.

A speaker who had my complete attention at the MSCA educational conference was business author Tim Sanders. Sanders said a future war for talented workers is brewing. When I heard him say that, I perked up because the first editorial I wrote for The NEWS a year and a half ago was about the coming labor shortage.

Section 608 of the Federal Clean Air Act requires persons who work with regulated refrigerants to become certified. To simplify the task of preparing for the exam, ESCO Institute is offering free online practice exams.

The ACE Mentor Program of America has announced that it is one of eight recipients of the 2010 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

ABB announced that it has completed delivery and set up of 15 new motor drives and programmable logic controller (PLC) interface systems donated to Milwaukee Area Technical College’s (MATC’s) Industrial Automation Laboratory.

HVAC Excellence has announced that the 2012 National HVACR Educators and Trainers Conference will be held March 18-20, 2012 at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas.

The HVACR program at Lincoln Technical Institute College, in Union, N.J., has been granted a six-year HVAC Excellence Accreditation.

When it comes to encouraging high school students to pursue post-secondary studies in vocational programs such as HVACR, the fall guys for failure to do so are usually the high school counselors. Well, it just might be the blame rests not with the counselors but with those who are telling the counselors what to push and promote.

Install & Commissioning: VRV Systems presented by Daikin AC (Americas) Inc., Daikin University.