TRAD8200 - Automotive Fundamentals for Hybrid/Electric Vehicles

Course Description

Participants will learn basic terminology and writing skills an automotive technician will need to know as well as basic knowledge of mathematical terms and formulas to be effective in the Automotive Industry. There will be an orientation and a free placement test prior to the start of the course to gauge the level of competency for this course. If you would like to by-pass this course, a pre-test will be given the next day. You must pass with an 85% or more to skip this course and move forward to Automotive Essentials course.

Required Preparation: Must be at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or equivalent and possess a valid driver license. Attendance at orientation and complimentary placement test with a score of 60% or higher

 

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Learner Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, it is anticipated that participants will be able to do the following:

- Understand standard abbreviations and symbols for common energetic quantities.
- Use appropriate terminology to describe verbally and in writing the parts of an engine, a transmisssion, the electrical system, the braking system, and other key functions of a vehicle.
- Explain terminology specific to feul cell and hybrid vehicles.
- Use correct names of common tools used in vehicle maintenance.
- Prepare vehicle maintenance servie records and repair orders.
- Prepare forms for ordering vehicle parts.
- Read and understand in context, signed number, decimals, and rational numbers.
- Use a modern scientific calcualtor to aid in real world calculations.
- Analyze a word problem and reduce it to an algebraic expression.
- Understand and solve problems involving force, time, length, area, volume, torque, density, speed, acceleration, temperature, pressure, and angular velocity.
- Understand standard abbreviations and symbols for units.
- Convert units within the standard and metric systems; convert between the standard and metric systems.
- Understand and use algebraic formulas in relation to modern world applications.
- Understand and use powers of ten and metric prefixes.
- Solve practical problems involving perimeter, area and volume of simple polygons and solids.