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BEST Center BAS Workshop Instructs Instructors on the Cutting-Edge BAS Applications
The Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center's final in-person BAS workshop will take place from June 2-6 at the Milwaukee Area Technical College in Milwaukee, WI. The workshop aims to educate HCAVR instructors about the latest skills and techniques used by technicians in the field and help them develop lesson plans for their students. Harpartap Parmar, Director of Product Management at Contemporary Controls, will discuss Networking Trends in BAS on June 3.
The BEST Center was founded in 2012 to support publicly funded 2- and 4-year colleges with programs in HVACR, controls, building automation, and energy/facilities management. The BEST Center has been sponsored by National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education program to provide model curricula, professional development for instructors, career pathways for students, and dissemination of research to advance building technician education.
At Contemporary Controls, we take pride in our commitment to education and training and have been honored to with work the BEST Center for more than 20 years. We have worked with several affiliated colleges, technical schools, and organizations like the Best Center to create practical classroom/lab experiences that merge traditional HVACR knowledge with the networking and IT skills needed in today's high-tech building automation industry.
We have a long-time working relationship with an HVACR program at College of DuPage (COD), a local community college in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. COD's Technical Education Center features a state-of-the-art HVACR lab that utilizes our BAScontrol BACnet controllers and BAScontrol Toolset to give students hands-on experience programming and commissioning BACnet devices within a building automation system (BAS).
Built upon BACnet open protocol and Sedona open-source programming language, our BACnet controllers are license-free and are available to all without restrictions. The BAScontrol Toolset is a free set of tools that allows students to program, test, archive, and restore our BASautomation controllers.
Contemporary Controls strives to help students learn how to "Build on BACnet" and to facilitate an energy efficient and cost-effective HVACR/BAS automation system with controller programming, network integration, building supervision, and secure remote access. Combined with award-winning technical support, an educational discount on hardware, and free software tools, our networking and control products are perfectly suited for training and education applications. To learn more, visit Training and Education with Contemporary Controls.