Solar installer training: Home Builders Institute Job Corps
Conference
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OSTI ID:379896
- San Diego Job Corps Center, Imperial Beach, CA (United States). Home Builders Inst.
The instructors describe the solar installation training program operated since 1979 by the Home Builders Institute, the Educational Arm of the National Association of Home Builders for the US Department of Labor, Job Corps in San Diego, CA. The authors are the original instructors and have developed the program since its inception by a co-operative effort between the Solar Energy Industries Association, NAHB and US DOL. Case studies of a few of the 605 students who have gone to work over the years after the training are included. It is one of the most successful programs under the elaborate Student Performance Monitoring Information System used by all Job Corps programs. Job Corps is a federally funded residential job training program for low income persons 16--24 years of age. Discussion details the curriculum and methods used in the program including classroom, shop and community service projects. Solar technologies including all types of hot water heating, swimming pool and spa as well as photovoltaics are included.
- OSTI ID:
- 379896
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960430--; ISBN 0-89553-211-5
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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