Plumbing Program
Program Overview
The Plumbing and Heating Program provides students with excellent opportunities to experience numerous aspects of the trade. Students develop skills in assembling black steel pipe, copper tubing and cast iron soil pipe. Safety is emphasized throughout the four-year program. Students are taught the proper use of hand and portable power tools. They are also exposed to welding as it applied to the plumbing trade.
The junior and senior shop curriculum provides with opportunities to work on live work thus allowing them to work on school and community maintenance projects. Many of the plumbing and heating projects provide students with opportunists to use their mechanical aptitude and their ability to solve engineering problems by using critical thinking skills and their ability to be creative.
Skills and Skill Areas
- Assembling Steel Piping
- Assembling Copper Tubing
- Assembling Cast Iron Pipe
- Assembling Plastic Pipe
- Supporting Pipe
- PVC/ABS Supporting Pipe
- Drill Notching Cutting
- Installing Hot Water Appliances
- Repair & Maintenance
- Metal B-Vent Gas Chimney
- Oil Storage System
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- Hydronic Heating System
- Radiation (Heating)
- Heating Accessories
- Boiler Controls
- Clearing Stoppages
- Installing Gas Piping
- Water Pumps
- Blackflow Preventers
- Special Waste
- Rouging Fixtures
- Venting Fixtures
- Installing a Water Distribution System
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Career Options
Students graduating from Diman have a variety of job options open to them. Below is a partial list of jobs Diman grads from this program are qualified for, depending on their level of education.
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2 Year College |
4 Year College |
- Apprentice Plumber
- Plumbing Supply Worker
- Waste water treatment facility worker
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- Small business management
- Residential plumber
- Commercial plumber
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- Systems engineer
- Civil engineer
- Water treatment scientist
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