The Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Higher Professional Technical Course (TeSP-ACR) aims at training professionals capable of executing Works Implementation, Follow-up and Construction supervision tasks, Maintenance and Operation/Exploration of cold rooms and HVACs in:
• Merchant, fishing, river traffic ships, and maritime-tourist vessels;
• Port terminals, loading/unloading terminals for liquid gas (LNG) and fish storage facilities;
• Marines and recreational harbours;
• Cold chambers in port terminals and refrigerated containers;
• Water infrastructures (fish production in aquaculture, aquariums, fluviariums, among others);
• Shipbuilding and ship repair work
• General industries;
• Shopping centers, supermarkets, banks, hotels among other buildings provided with refrigeration facilities and air conditioning.
TeSP-ACR graduates are also ready to pursue a higher education course, namely ENIDH's Engineering degrees, in which they can earn credits in the scientific areas of the course.

Careers:

CteSP in Air Conditioning and Refrigeration aims at training qualified technicians specially oriented to perform the following general functions:
• Coordinate, supervise and participate in installation, maintenance and repair operations of thermal equipment, specially refrigeration and/or air conditioning in merchant, fishing, maritime-tourist vessels, and also offshore platforms for oil and gas drilling and extraction, thereby complying with the quality criteria and safety rules applicable to maritime-port activities;
• Pursue the same functions ashore, namely in domestic, business, industrial and services refrigeration and/or air conditioning systems;
• Perform maintenance of industrial facilities by using diagnostic equipment, including issuing opinions concerning the condition of the equipment;
• Supervise teams to implement preventive and predictive maintenance plans;
• Plan, execute and monitor operations executed in manufacturing technological processes, especially in machining, forming and welding operations;
• Select the different types of pumps and ventilators and identify the main applications for this equipment;
• Implement the acquired skills on thermal comfort, psychometrics, air conditioning, refrigeration cycles and refrigerant fluids in facilities;
• Select the main elements of an air conditioning and refrigeration facility and apply the installation, startup, operation and maintenance procedures for this equipment;
• Identify, characterize and select the elements in the fluid networks;
• Apply organisation and management concepts and tools;
• Design and implement adequate operational modes, work methods and coordinate the management activities as regards human resources and equipment.