Arkansas HVACR NewsMagazine March 2022

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ASU-Beebe Searcy Campus receives state-of-the-art equipment from Arkansas HVACR Association SEARCY, Ark. – Thanks to a donation from the Arkansas HVACR Association in partnership with the Arkansas Department of Occupational Skills Development and the Arkansas Energy Office, students in the HVACR Technology program at the ASU-Beebe Searcy Campus are training with cutting-edge technology grounded in a solid instructional foundation. Tom Hunt, Executive Director of the Arkansas HVACR Association, presented students and program instructor Brad Cooper with Bluetooth- enabled equipment that can be utilized in conjunction with the measureQuick app, as well as a BluFlame combustion analyzer. The measureQuick application collects measurements, aggregates data, and diagnoses faults to help service technicians determine if units are performing as designers intended. Cooper said the software is grounded in foundational scientific equations.

“The app allows senior techs to observe what newer techs are seeing in the field while they are working on a piece of equipment and provide guidance. It has the ability to change the way companies d o business,” Cooper said. Cooper said the class was also provided with better designed equipment for creating vacuums and an instructional book titled “Review of Vacuum for Service Engineers” that was originally created in 1959 and revised in 2020. “It’s very interesting. They really went back to the beginning to foundational knowledge to provide the basis for this new technology,” Cooper said. “It allows us to understand how the app works and what goes into the app, so we know it is working correctly.” Hunt said a major need in the HVACR industry was a method to train technicians to evaluate if equipment is functioning at full capacity as intended by designers. “Without this type of