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IGSHPA Accredited Trainers for Upcoming CoursesGreg Wells Wells has 20 years of experience in the geothermal industry as an electric utility representative, a territory manager for a geothermal heating and cooling manufacturer, a general manager of a large geothermal installation company, prior to being employed at Jackson Geothermal. Wells is currently serving on IGSHPA’s Advisory Council, is an IGSHPA accredited installer and trainer and an IGSHPA/AEE Certified GeoExchange Designer. Wells is the developer of the Accredtied Drillers Training for IGSHPA. Terry Proffer, CGD
Since 2006, Proffer has provided technical advice and beta testing to Gaia Geothermal for their state-of-the-art commercial GLD closed loop design software. Proffer also serves as an advisor to the IGSHPA CGD training committee, and is currently serving on the steering committee of the Geothermal Academy at Colorado School of Mines with support from U.S. Department of Energy and NREL. In addition Terry serves the Geothermal Academy as a technical advisor and guest lecturer. Proffer also provides input to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for their Geothermal Heat Pump road mapping project to define installation challenges and increase the use of GSHP technology. Oklahoma State University Faculty and StaffJames Bose, Ph.D., P.E.
Gerald R. McClain
McClain, an Emeritus Professor, retired from Oklahoma State University as the Head of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Division of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, in Stillwater, Okla. As Vice President of eLearning Innovations, Inc., from 1995 to 2006, McClain developed computer and web-based instruction and designed two-way video studios for instructional use. McClain has held classes all over the United States and in a number of foreign countries to train both faculty and staff for a number of companies and organizations.
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Greg Wells is a geothermal sales engineer for Jackson & Sons Drilling/Jackson
Geothermal in Mansfield, Ohio. He is responsible for commercial sales,
commercial field design and installation quality control. Jackson Geothermal
has installed thousands of tons of vertical geothermal heat exchanger
systems from coast to coast.
Involved in the GSHP industry since 1993, Proffer spent over 15 years as a petroleum geologist prior to a second career in the mechanical professions. Proffer has designed, consulted or installed on thousands of tons of heat pump capacity throughout the U.S, Canada, Europe and Asia, trained over 700 contractors and engineers through IGSHPA and other training resources, and consulted with Colorado’s Division of Water Resources to implement improved regulations for closed and open loop installations and licensing. In the past 5 years Proffer has designed and/or peer reviewed more than 15,000 tons of commercial and military GSHP installations, not counting residential and confidential commercial projects. 
Jim
Bose is the Director of the Division of Engineering Technology at Oklahoma
State University. Bose has research interests in energy conservation and
specifically ground-source heat pump technology. He has been principal
investigator on a number of private and government contracts, including
the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, the Department of Energy, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce
and others. He has traveled in conjunction with the International Energy
Agency (IEA) to China, Sweden, and Austria in promoting ground source
heat pump technology. He authored several design and installation manuals
for ground-source heat pump systems. He is active in the International
Ground Source Heat Pump Association and serves as the Executive Director.
He works extensively with research agencies, manufacturers and contractors,
and lectures extensively on energy conservation and the benefits of ground
source heat pump systems.
Gerald R. McClain has joined the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association as Distance Learning Coordinator. McClain is establishing the use of digital web-based video conferencing to add online training capability for IGSHPA’s training efforts. He has organized and designed an effective training website for installer trainers and is currently assisting as IGSHPA’s training coordinator.