The automotive sector provides for many career choices within the manufacturing, service, and retail industries. The manufacturing sector provides career choices from factory workers and assemblers to design engineers and senior administrators. In the service and retail sectors, jobs range from maintenance/service technicians, light vehicle technicians, and heavy vehicle technicians to service advisors and service managers. As technical complexity has grown in modern vehicles, so has the need for more specialized job roles. For example, there is now a need for hybrid technicians. They are trained to service the systems on hybrid vehicles.
Student should know and be able to do upon completion of an advanced high school Automotive Technology program. These standards are designed for a two-credit course sequence that prepares the student for a technical assessment directly aligned to the standards.
Student must earn the state Certificate of Skill Attainment in Automotive Technology.
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