Chabot College 2024-2026 423 APPRENTICESHIP, APSF, APTE 9712 Residential Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship II 3 Units This course is the second half of Year One of a 2.5-year Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program. Topics include: related safety and health practices; industry gases; shoring and man lifts; reading sprinkler drawings (part two); types of pipes, fittings, valves, and hangers used in the piping industry; first aid/CPR certification; history, installation and hazard ratings of automatic sprinkler systems; victaulic, grooved and plain end piping method; certification of CPVC installation. Requires indenture in the Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program, approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Lecture: 54 hours Laboratory: 18 hours 9713 Residential Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship III 3 Units First half of year two of a 2.5-year Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program. Topics overview: basic mathematics; operation of the sprinkler head; knot tying and rigging; oxygen-acetylene safety (part one); heritage and future in the pipe trade. Requires indenture in the Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program, approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Lecture: 54 hours Laboratory: 18 hours 9714 Residential Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship IV 3 Units Second half of year two of a 2.5-year Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program. Topics overview: review OSHA safety standards; copper pipe installation (soldering and brazing); installation of wet pipe system; using the NFPA 13 Standard; wet pipe alarm valves; maintenance and inspection of automatic fire protection systems, telehandler certification. Requires indenture in the Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program, approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Lecture: 54 hours Laboratory: 18 hours 9715 Residential Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship V 3 Units Final half year of a 2.5-year Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program. Topics overview; dry valves, accelerators and exhausters; hydraulics, the physical properties of fluids; oxygen-acetylene safety (part two); Studying for state Residential Sprinkler Fitter Certification test; fundamentals of gas welding and flame cutting. Requires indenture in the Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship Program, approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards. Lecture: 54 hours Laboratory: 18 hours 9795 Occupational Work Experience - Sprinkler Fitter Apprenticeship 1-14 Units Supervised employment of students extending classroom-based occupational learning at an on-the-job learning station relating to the students’ occupational goals. Cooperative effort of the work supervisor, student, Joint Apprenticeship Training Council (JATC) or Program Sponsor, and instructor to achieve work-based learning objectives. Students must be enrolled in an apprenticeship program. Within the academic term, students must complete 54 hours of paid or non-paid work for 1 unit. Students can earn a maximum of 14 units of Work Experience. Work Experience: 54-756 hours APPRENTICESHIP: TELECOMMUNICATIONS (APTE) Degrees AS Telecommunications Technology Certificate of Achievement Telecommunications Technology TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY Associate in Science To be a Communications Technician Apprentice or a Fiber Optics Technician/Splicer an applicant must first be employed by a signatory Communications Worker of America (CWA) employer who is participating in the apprenticeship program and a CWA Union Member. As a Communications Technician he/she will install, maintain and repair structured cabling installations to meet the communications needs required to provide a wide range of residential and commercial services. Working with low voltage wiring systems, the apprentice Communications Technician learns safety practices, Voice, Data (Local, Metropolitan and Wide Area Networks); Video (Cable TV, Closed Circuit, Video-Conferencing), Security Systems (Alarms. Cameras, Access Control,), Cabling using Copper (twisted pair and coax), Fiber Optics, Wireless, OSHA Safety Practices, First Aid/CPR, Grounding, Bonding and Firestopping techniques in a structured cabling system, Computer Literacy and Networking. The Fiber Optics Technician would become skilled in all the above excluding security systems with additional training in outside fiber optics splicing including installation, maintenance, testing and repair of buried and aerial fiber optics cabling. Career Opportunities All Apprentices start off with an hourly wage and fringe benefit package and the wages increase based on advancement within the program. Upon completion of the apprenticeship program, the graduate may be employed at the journey level by contractors, or may pursue an entrepreneurial path. Upon completion of the program, the median hourly rate is $35 (2022 rate, Bay Region). LMI projections for the Bay Region project 577 openings per year for Telecommunications Technicians. Program Learning Outcomes 1. Support a safe and healthy work environment through analysis of the environment and application of safe policies and practices. 2. Demonstrate the skills to follow plans and blueprints, perform relevant calculations, and effectively use the tools and techniques to install, test, and maintain ftelecommunications systems in accordance with industry practice, workmanship standards, and regulations.
