Building a career in today's highly technical air conditioning, heating and plumbing fields requires solid professional training, and UAM offers one of the best programs anywhere, with employment at a Washington area mechanical contracting firm as part of the deal.

When you're accepted into the program, you'll start right away as an apprentice, earning good wages and working side-by-side with experienced members of the trade. You'll be eligible for promotion and increased pay, too. Along with this invaluable on-the-job training, you'll take classes at the UA Mechanical Trades School in Landover, recognized as one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world.

Your tuition for the classroom training won't cost you a cent. That's more than $25,000 worth of education free - and all the while you're a well-paid wage earner, on your own, making a good living. Upon graduation in five years, you'll be a certified journeyman plumber/gasfitter or steamfitter, and well on your way to a solid career in one of the most skilled and highly-paid of all mechanical trades.

If you choose the construction side of the business, you'll be able to drive past some of the finest new buildings in the area and tell your children, "I helped build that." If you choose the service side, you'll be able to say, "I keep that building working right."