Collision Repair and Refinishing Diploma Option Courses

In this course students receive training on the proper handling of hazardous waste and EPA issues together with technical information about specific auto body safety and health situations. Specific training is provided in tools/equipment usage, parts assembly, filler application, and straightening techniques. Students will also receive training in autobody welding.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

The intent of this class is to prepare the students to gather all the resources for there structuring of the automobile. Material conservation, deadlines, human relation skills, leadership qualities and teamwork are closely monitored. This is an important class to prepare the student for their employment in industry.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

Pre/Co-requisite(s): Minimum grade of D- in CRR-304.

Students will receive a thorough understanding of personal health and safety, use of sanding abrasives, air power tools and equipment, and paint guns.

Lecture Hours: 16 Lab Hours: 64

Students will receive training in refinishing products, masking procedures, corrosion protection, and paint preparation.

Lecture Hours: 16 Lab Hours: 64

Pre/Co-requisite(s): A minimum grade of D- in CRR-821.

This course is designed to present basic facts of arithmetic including whole numbers, fractions, decimals, powers, roots, English and metric measurement, ratio-proportion, percents, introduction to algebra, introduction to geometry, and applied statistics. Instruction includes use of scientific hand-held calculators and emphasis placed on critical thinking, problem solving skills.

Lecture Hours: 48

This is a one semester, liberal arts mathematics course that satisfies the minimum general education requirement for math. The course is designed to impart math skills which are helpful in everyday life as well as to expose students to areas of mathematics they may not have seen before. Topics include problem-solving skills, set theory, algebra, consumer mathematics, probability, and statistics. Other topics may be included.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of D- in MAT-063 or appropriate placement score.

This course provides an intensified study of algebraic techniques and prepares students for future study in mathematics. The central theme is the concept of functions, their properties, graphs and applications. Functions studied include polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic.

Lecture Hours: 64

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT-102 or equivalent placement score.

In this course students will receive hands on experience involving high production practiced used by industry collision repair technicians. Students will receive training on frame machines and attachment equipment used in collision repair shops.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

In this course students will receive training in collision related suspension and steering systems. Additional training will be received in drive train repairs and wheel alignment and brakes.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

Introduce students to various aspects of computerized estimating software while reinforcing repair procedures.

Lecture Hours: 16 Lab Hours: 32

This course combines lecture and lab activities to develop advanced automotive refinishing shop production skills by refinishing paint damaged automobiles to pre-accident condition. Paint manufacturers recommendations and refinishing shop standards are used to repair the vehicle to pre-accident condition.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

This course will provide students with advance paint techniques, training in basic electrical fundamentals and training in Airbag Systems as they apply to collision and refinishing repairs.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

Pre/Co-requisite(s): Minimum grade of D- in CRR-874.

In this course, students will receive information and training in common collision repair procedures performed by production collision centers. Specific training is provided in straightening procedures for light and heavy collision damage, specialized tools and equipment, and air conditioning systems relating to collision damage.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

In this course, students will receive hands on experience involving high production practices used by industry technicians. Students will be exposed to time management performance tasks involved in numerous areas of refinishing. Skill levels will be enhanced for various refinish tasks such as paint preparation, masking procedures, blending, and overall refinishing.

Lecture Hours: 32 Lab Hours: 64

This one-semester pre-calculus course is intended for the student with a solid algebra background who intends to take calculus. It is also beneficial (but not required) for the student to have a background in trigonometry. The course will emphasize functions using an analytical, numerical, and graphical approach. The student will study linear, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions along with their applications.

Lecture Hours: 64

Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement scores.

The second course of a two-semester pre-calculus sequence. Topics include trigonometry and applications, vectors, analytic geometry, and polar and parametric equations.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT-121 or equivalent placement score.

This course is a study of descriptive statistics including graphical representation, central tendency, correlation and regression, intuitive treatment of probability and inferential statistics including hypothesis testing.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): MAT-063.

The first in a calculus sequence, this course covers topics including functions and their graphs, limits, derivatives, applications of the derivative, and integrals.

Lecture Hours: 64

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT-134 or MAT-128 or appropriate placement scores.

A continuation of MAT-210, this course covers topics including integration techniques, applications of integration, infinite series, conic sections, parametric and polar equations.

Lecture Hours: 64

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in MAT-210.

This course covers topics including integration and differentiation techniques related to vectors, vector-valued functions, functions of several variables, multiple integration, and vector analysis.

Lecture Hours: 64

Prerequisite(s): MAT-216.