Syllabus

DONALDSON CENTER

COURSE SYLLABUS

Mark Einhorn, Automotive Technology Instructor

(phone) 864-355-4650

(fax) 864-355-4683

meinhorn@greenville.k12.sc.us

COURSE: Automotive Technology 1 (one year)

COURSE CODE:

LOCATION: Building /Room Lab/Shop CLASS TIMES: 9:00- 11:05 am

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics career cluster. The Automotive Technology program provides technical skill proficiency and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics career cluster.

The content includes but is not limited to broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the automotive industry: planning, management, finance, technical and product skills, underlying principles of technology, community issues and health, safety, and environmental issues.

The South Carolina Secondary Automotive Service Technology Program is a 540-hour program of instruction consisting of the NATEF-MLR program requirements plus additional NATEF Brakes Program tasks and the SkillsUSA Professional Development Program (PDP). All of the required tasks for SC are listed below. An instructor may supplement the program with any additional NATEF tasks as program time permits. Students who are classified as CATE program completers will be required to take the ASE Student Examination in both MLR and Brakes.

Schools seeking to meet the AST (850 hours) and/or MAST (1080 hours) certification levels will follow NATEF-ASE requirements (see tabs below). The NATEF priority rating ("P" numbers) are given for each task. An individual program must have 95% of the P-1s, 80% of the P-2s, and 50% of the P-3s to satisfy the NATEF requirements for MLR.

CREDITS: 3 units per year

PREREQUISITES: Algebra 1 or Algebra 1 CP Part B

ASSOCIATED FEES: Skills USA