Automotive Collision Repair - Los Angeles Trade Technical College

Automotive Collision Repair from Los Angeles Trade Technical College is a Campus Certificate Automotive degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. PROGRAM OVERVIEW Los Angeles is a leading collision capital center in the automotive design world. Insurance companies are increasingly demanding Auto Collision Technicians trained in damage cost estimations. The demand for fully trained Automotive Repair Technicians is very high where skilled technicians are readily employable and command excellent incomes These Technicians use highly sophisticated devices, such as laser for straightening frames, computer for mixing paint, and dust control contamination vacuum tools for smoothing paint. The Trade-Tech Automotive Collision Repair program is designed for students who want to enter this growing field. Classes are a combination of classroom instruction coupled with hands-on training. Students learn welding procedures, diagnostic and repair procedures, body part alignment processes, metal finishing/shrinking/filling techniques, auto body electrical wiring systems, body section replacement and structural sectioning practices, body damage estimating techniques, auto body construction methods, paint color application skills, and body shop practices. Upon successful completion of the program students will be proficient in a variety of automotive collision techniques and will have the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain, repair, and diagnose body and fender repair procedures. They will be proficient at all aspects of preparation and painting, including computerized mixing and matching, damage estimation, creating computerized reports and digital imaging. Students who complete this degree will be able to perform jobs as estimators, service managers equipped to repair problems occurring in automotive collision systems. A Certificate of Completion is awarded for the completion of 36 units in the first through fourth semester courses listed, above, along with the core electives. This program includes DuPont Paint Systems Certificate of Completion for Rule 1151. View more details on Los Angeles Trade Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Automotive courses.