AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY 8030

Automotive technology has changed rapidly during the past decade. Today's technician not only needs formal training in the latest diagnostic equipment, but also must possess good reading and basic mathematics skills in order to follow detailed technical manuals.

A career as an automotive technician can provide you with the opportunity for good pay and the satisfaction of performing skilled work with your hands. Job stability is also an attractive benefit since economic change has little effect on the automotive repair industry.

THE VU ADVANTAGE
Vincennes University provides the opportunity to develop all the necessary skills through a two-year program that emphasizes both technical and general education. You will work on different types of automobiles in VU's 17,500 square-foot industrial-rated shop that features:

  • 22 service stalls
  • Two Hunter alignment machines
  • 12 automobile floor lifts
  • Dyno-Jet Dynamometer
  • Two transmission dynamometers
  • Numerous late-model diagnostic scanners

WHAT YOU WILL STUDY
You will learn to diagnose and repair automobile and light truck systems through classroom lecture and hands-on experience.

  • Front-end alignment/rebuilding
  • Automotive electrical systems
  • Power transmission systems
  • Fuel delivery systems
  • Emission control systems
  • Automatic transmissions
  • Engine systems
  • Brake systems
  • Electrical systems
  • Heating and air conditioning

Visit www.vinu.edu/technology

 

Note: Recommended courses are for the A.S. degree and assume any developmental requirements have been met. A.A.S. degree also available.


Norbert Brown
812-888-5107
nbrown@vinu.edu

BELOW IS THE RECOMMENDED COURSE SEQUENCE FOR THIS PROGRAM.

Semester I
Transportation Fundamentals
Transporation Electrical + Lab
Automotive Chassis
   System + Lab
English Composition I

Semester II
Automotive Engine
    Systems + Lab
Automotive
    Electronics + Lab
Intermediate Algebra
Speech
Writing Elective

Semester III
Transportation
    HVAC + Lab
Automotive Drive
    Trains + Lab
Lab Science Elective
Lifetime Fitness/Wellness
Hum/Math/Science Elective

Semester IV
Automotive Engine
    Performance + Lab     
Automotive Service Capstone
History of American Technology
General Welding
Humanities Elective
Social Science Elective