Diesel Technology - Salina Area Technical School

Diesel Technology from Salina Area Technical School is a Campus Associate Automotive degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Diesel technicians repair and maintain the diesel engines that power transportation equipment such as semi-trucks, buses and locomotives, mobile equipment, including bulldozers, cranes, road graders, farm tractors, and combines. Technicians must be versatile to adapt to needs of customers and new technologies including the use of a variety of electronic and computerized testing equipment to pinpoint and analyze malfunctions in electrical systems and engines. Diesel careers can take you from a repair shop, to a farmer?s field or construction site, to a company maintaining their vehicle fleet, to the transportation authority of a large city or railway, to working on semi-trucks, or to an agricultural implement dealership. Technicians may work on a vehicle?s electrical system one day and do major engine repairs the next. In eighteen months Salina Tech Diesel Technology students are trained in this high tech field through classes, and hands-on projects in our top-of-the-line facilities. Career Opportunities: Service Representative, Sales and Parts Representative, Small Business Owner, Fuel Injection Specialist, Diesel Technician, Service Manager, Store Manager View more details on Salina Area Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Automotive courses.