Automotive Collision Technology Technician

Program Details

Program Description
Date, Times, & Location
Admission Process
Tuition, Labs, & Fees
Financial Aid
Links to Career Resources

Short Description:

This program focuses on refinishing skills; sheet metal repair skills; frame and unibody squaring and aligning; use of fillers; paint systems and undercoats; related welding skills; related mechanical skills; trim-hardware maintenance; glass servicing; and other miscellaneous repairs.

Program Content:

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; 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 basic trade skills; refinishing skills; sheet metal repair skills; frame and unibody squaring and aligning; use of fillers; paint systems and undercoats; related welding skills; related mechanical skills; trim-hardware maintenance; glass servicing; and other miscellaneous repairs. The course content should also include training in communication, leadership, human relations and employability skills; and safe, efficient work practices.
This program focuses on 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, labor issues, community issues, and health, safety and environmental issues.

Certification/Licensure: Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Collision Repair & Refinish:
B2 – Painting and Refinishing

CTSO: SkillsUSA and/or HOSA are the approved cocurricular career and technical student organizations which provide activities for students as an integral part of the instruction by providing leadership training and reinforcing specific career and technical skills.

Articulation: May be available toward credits at Florida public colleges/universities.
Speak with a career counselor for more information.

Start Date:

August, January

Times:

Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
For more information: Contact Nicole Kirchberg: 941.751.7900 x 46161,
Email kirchbergn@manateeschools.net

Program’s OCP (Occupational Completion Points)

OCP A

Course Number: ARR0140

Course: Automotive Collision Repair and Refinishing Helper/Assistant

150 hours

OCP B

Course Number: ARR0141

Course: Automotive Refinishing Technician

450 hours

OCP C

Course Number: ARR0312

Course: Non-Structural Damage Repair Technician

300 hours

OCP D

Course Number: ARR0022

Course: Damage Analysis and Estimating

75 hours

OCP E

Course Number: ARR0112

Course: Automotive Collision Welding, Cutting and Joining

75 hours

OCP F

Course Number: ARR0295

Course: Structural Damage Repair Technician

350 hours

Location:

MTC Main Campus, 6305 State Road 70 East, Bradenton, FL 34203
941.751.7900

1. Apply to MTC at https://www.manateetech.edu/apply-now/. Submit your application to access your “To-Do List.” You are not accepted into the program after applying, you must complete your do list.

2. Complete your “To-Do List” at https://www.MTCdashboard.net.
Note: The Basic Skills Assessment must be taken within 6 weeks of your admit date unless exemption criteria have been documented per State Statute. For exemption information, see the Student Handbook located here: https://www.manateetech.edu/students/quick-docs/

For more information: contact the Career Counselor : Call: 941.751.7900 or
Email: kirchbergn@manateeschools.net

Program #T401300 CIP# 0647060306

Estimated Tuition, Lab, and Fees (includes $60.00 administrative fee)

$6,669.00

Additional Fees Due Prior to Pre-Admittance

Application Fee

$45.00

Bookstore

Textbook(s)*

$867.37

Uniform* (Minimum 1 shirt – price depends on size) $40.00

$40.00

Additional Required Items (Outside Vendor)

Dark Pants- black or navy blue – estimate

$25.00

Dark Shoes – steel-toed preferred but not required – estimate

$80.00

Mechanic style work gloves (ex: Harbor Freight) – estimate

$10.00

Estimated Total Cost of Program

$7,736.37

Optional Fees

ASE B3 Test – Non-Structural Analysis and Damage Repair

$81.00

ASE B4 Test – Structural Analysis and Damage Repair

$81.00

*Uniforms may be covered, for Pell eligible students once aid has been applied to all tuition & fee charges. *Prices are subject to change.

Financial aid available depending on student’s eligibility.
All pre-admission fees are non-refundable and not covered by Financial Aid.
Prices are subject to change.

Textbook estimate. Current book list and prices.

Annual fees (charged each academic year from July 1—June 30).
Tuition is $2.92 per hour for Florida residents. Tuition is $11.71 per hour for Non-Florida residents.

Visit MTC Financial Aid page for more information.

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