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  1. School of Applied Technology Tour

    Take a virtual tour of our School of Applied Technology in Wellsville

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    1. Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing Center

      The Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing Center is used to educate welding technology and machine tool technology students in state-of-the-art sustainable practices in advanced manufacturing through efficient processes. Other uses for the facility include prototyping and assisting manufacturers in the development of new products and systems.

    2. Electrical Trades Building #1

      The Electrical Construction and Maintenance Electrician

      laboratories are well equipped with electrical test equipment. Students learn by hands-on applications of the theory, knowledge, and skills presented in lecture. In this program approximately 50 percent of each day is spent working hands-on in the laboratory.

    3. Masonry Building

      Masonry students are involved in project-based learning including participating in real world construction projects, building foundations, installing masonry veneer, construction of chimneys, fire places, brick ovens and local community projects.

    4. Culinary Arts Building

      The Culinary Arts Department facilities include The Refinery Fine Dining Restaurant, and The Rig Student Dining Hall and several kitchens for hands-on learning.

      The department includes two programs:  culinary arts - focusing on food production and management; and baking, production and management - focusing on retail baking production. 

    5. Workforce Development Center

      The building construction program will provide you with instruction in the basic skills required of the carpenter and the mason in the construction of residential or other light-frame commercial and masonry buildings. You will also gain extensive experience in building layout, foundations, framing, sheathing, exterior and interior trim, block work, brick, and concrete construction.

      This 30,000 square-foot facility allows the College to house all of its building trades workshops and training sessions under one roof.

       

    6. HVAC Lab

      Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

      The HVAC program will prepare you for this growing field with courses on all phases of residential and commercial installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair. It includes forced air, hot water and steam heating, gas and oil burner systems, along with hands-on air conditioning and heat pump technology.
       

      The plumbing aspect of the program provides instruction in the basic skills required by the plumber in the construction of residential housing and commercial buildings. The program ranges from the installation of waste and sewage lines to the installation of potable water lines and plumbing fixtures.

    7. Senior Automotive Shop

      Automotive students perform lab exercises on licensed, driven vehicles and have labs taught by experts who have real-world experience.

      Automotive students are very active, taking their skills to the road. In addition to the daily hands-on, live lab work, many students are involved in project-based learning activities that include competitions in the Green Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, land speed record racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats, the ELK (Everyone Loves Kids) Charity Challenge, and The Great Race.

    8. Autobody Building

      Students that successfully complete the autobody repair curriculum will be proficient in the repair procedures that can lead to a wide variety of jobs related to the automotive collision and restoration businesses.

      Hands-on experience with spot repair, collision repair, estimating, specialized painting, rust repair, and frame straightening.


    9. Zero Energy Demonstration Home

      This zero energy demonstration home (produces excess energy) on the School of Applied Technology campus in Wellsville, was built by its students as a National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Center, Green Certified at its Gold standard (Certificate #3667).

       

      The home is an open laboratory for the public as well as our students. It will educate the future construction workforce in green building techniques in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

       

    10. Heavy Equipment, Truck & Diesel Lab

      Our heavy equipment, truck and diesel technician program is the only program in New York and New England that is approved by the Association of Diesel Specialists (ADS) and is one of only nine national ADS TechSmart training programs.

      You will receive a strong foundation on all types of vehicles during your freshman year, followed by a year of concentration on trucks, bulldozers, earthmovers, farm tractors, and other diesel-powered equipment during your senior year.