PLMB 2403 - Plumbing Skills IIV

 

3 Credit Hour(s)

Contact Hours
45 lecture hours

3 Faculty Load Hour(s)

Semesters Offered
Fall, Spring

ACTS Equivalent
None

Grade Mode
A-F

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this course, the student should be able to:
•    Identify cost control measures.
•    Identify the information required to prepare a material takeoff
•    Describe the opportunities in the construction and power industries.
•    Describe how workers’ values change over time.
•    Explain the importance of training and safety for the leaders in the construction and power industries.

•    Describe how new technologies are beneficial to the construction and power industries.
•    Identify the gender and minority issues associated with a changing workforce.
•    Describe what employers can do to prevent workplace discrimination.
•    Differentiate between formal and informal organizations.
•    Describe the difference between authority, responsibility, and accountability.
•    Explain the purpose of job descriptions and what they should include.
•    Distinguish between company policies and procedures.
•    Describe the role of a crew leader.
•    List the characteristics of effective leaders.
•    Explain the importance of ethics in a supervisor’s role.
•    Identify the three styles of leadership.
•    Describe the forms of communication.
•    Describe the four parts of verbal communication.
•    Describe the importance of active listening.
•    Explain how to overcome the barriers to communication.
•    List ways that leaders can motivate their employees.
•    Explain the importance of delegating and implementing policies and procedures.
•    Distinguish between problem solving and decision making.
•    Explain the importance of safety.
•    Give examples of direct and indirect costs of workplace accidents.
•    Identify safety hazards of the construction industry.
•    Explain the purpose of OSHA.
•    Discuss OSHA inspection procedures.
•    Identify the key points of a safety program.
•    List steps to train employees on how to perform new tasks safely.
•    Identify a crew leader’s safety responsibilities.
•    Explain the importance of having employees trained in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
•    Describe the indications of substance abuse.
•    List the essential parts of an accident investigation.
•    Describe ways to maintain employee interest in safety.
•    Describe the three phases of a construction project.
•    Define the three types of project delivery systems.
•    Define planning and describe what it involves.
•    Explain why it is important to plan.
•    Describe the two major stages of planning.
•    Explain the importance of documenting job site work.
•    Describe the estimating process.
•    Explain how schedules are developed and used.
•    Identify the two most common schedules.
•    Explain how the critical path method (CPM) of scheduling is used.
•    Describe the different costs associated with building a job.
•    Explain the crew leader’s role in controlling costs.
•    Illustrate how to control the main resources of a job: materials, tools, equipment, and labor.
•    Explain the differences between production and productivity and the importance of each.
•    Describe the characteristics of a water pressure booster system and identify its components.
•    Describe the characteristics of a recirculation system and identify its components.
•    Identify indirect waste systems.
•    Identify special waste systems.

•    Describe the principles of hydronic and solar heating systems.
•    Describe the basic types of hydronic and solar heating systems and their components.
•    Describe the procedures for roughing-in, installing, and testing hydronic and solar heating system piping.
•    Describe the model and local plumbing codes and their purposes.
•    Explain how plumbing codes are developed and revised.
•    Explain how to drill wells.
•    Explain the operation of various types of pumps and pump components.
•    Explain how to select and install water supply and storage components.
•    Describe the types of private waste disposal systems.
•    Explain how to locate and size private waste disposal systems.
•    Explain how to install private waste disposal systems.
•    Explain how to clean and service private waste disposal systems.
•    Explain how to size and install swimming pool systems and components.
•    Identify hot tub and spa systems and their components.
•    Describe water supply and DWV systems for mobile home parks.
•    Describe water supply and DWV systems for travel trailer parks.
•    Identify the building system requirements for medical gas and vacuum systems as outlined in the latest edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code, and the professional qualifications as 
outlined in the latest edition of ASSE/IAPMO/ ANSI Series 6000, Professional Qualifications Standard for Medical Gas Systems Personnel.

•    Describe the various medical gas and vacuum systems.
•    Identify the safety issues related to medical gas and vacuum system installation.
•    Identify the materials and tools for medical gas and vacuum systems and their storage and handling requirements.
•    Identify the equipment required for brazing copper tube with and without purging.
•    Describe the process for testing and verifying a medical gas and vacuum system.
 

General Education Outcomes Supported

•    Students develop higher order thinking skills.
•    Students can achieve mathematical literacy.
•    Students demonstrate information literacy.
 

Standard Practices
Topics List
•    Business Principles for Plumbers
•    Fundamentals of Crew Leadership
•    Water Pressure Booster and Recirculation Systems
•    Indirect and Special Waste
•    Hydronic and Solar Heating Systems
•    Codes
•    Private Water Supply Well Systems
•    Private Waste Disposal Systems
•    Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs
•    Plumbing for Mobile Homes and Travel Trailer Parks
•    Introduction to Medical Gas and Vacuum Systems

Learning Activities
•    Courses must, at a minimum, cover the core learning outcomes for each topic. Faculty may add 
to these outcomes but may not omit any of them.
•    Lab safety and equipment orientation and enforcement of safety protocols is each faculty 
member’s responsibility.
•    Since all general education outcomes are supported by specific course and program outcomes, 
all instructors should include learning activities that develop these outcomes in their courses and 
identify them in course syllabi. Instructors should describe how these activities will be evaluated 
in their course syllabi and/or reflected in their gradebooks.
Assessments
Exams include closed book tests and online quizzes.

Grading guidelines
•    90% score of all graded assignments = A
•    80% - 89% score on all graded assignments = B
•    70% - 79% score on all graded assignments = C
•    60% - 69% score on all graded assignments = D
•    <60% score on all graded assignments = F