Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum

Automotive Technology: Chassis and Drive Train, CERT

Location(s): TJC West


TJC’s Chassis and Drive Train certificate program provides you with up-to-date specialty training including front and rear suspension and alignment training as well as braking and control systems diagnosis. You will receive hands-on training in the diagnosis and repair of manual and automatic transmissions including rebuilds. Automotive program courses will enable you to seek employment as an entry-level technician and prepare you for ASE certification.

Please see department chair, a program professor or an academic advisor for details on this program.

Marketable skills for this award include: critical thinking, detail-oriented, multi-tasking and self-starter.

 

Certificate of Proficiency
TSI Exempt

Prerequisite


First Semester


Second Semester


Total Semester Hours: 24


For Automotive Technology certificate programs:

NOTE: Department-specific courses must be taken in sequence and may have a prerequisite course. Exceptions must be approved in writing by the department chair. Some courses are only offered during Fall semester or Spring semester but not both. Please plan accordingly.

# Indicates course only taught in the fall semester
+ Indicates course only taught in the spring semester
^ Indicates course only taught in the summer semester

NOTE: Applicants must meet the admission requirements for TJC and take the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test. Bennett test scores will not be used to exclude a student from enrollment in the program.

All required AUMT courses must be completed with a “C” or better.
All new students are required to attend automotive orientation.

Students are required to furnish their own tools. See the department chair, a program professor, an academic advisor or visit www.tjc.edu/autotech for the required tool list.