Course Syllabus

Collision Repair 

    By enrolling in this Collision Repair program, you have chosen a very exciting and challenging field of study. The love of the automobile and working with one's hands motivates the learner to achieve goals and requirements included in the course outline. Whether learning these repair skills for a career, self-employment, hobby, or just extra income, this facility is considered to be one of the best in the state. The objective of this course is to introduce basic auto repair and refinishing at the apprentice level. Federal and state agencies have set safety standards which are heavily stressed and regulated at all times in the shop. 

     Due to consumer standards, constant industry changes in engineering, safety, and styling, the expectations of the repair technician have never been higher. Depending on the learners pursuit of knowledge, personal ethics, work skills, and values, the offer of employment in the field have never been better. Ongoing education is always a necessity to help gain and obtain a high level of success and satisfaction in this or any other job area. Remember, as long as human beings drive the automobile and collides with objects or each other, you will always have work to do in this industry.

 

Course Outline

 

  Purpose: This course provides students with the basic knowledge of vehicle repair and refinishing, and skills that prepare the students for entry level positions in the collision repair industry. 

Objective: Upon completing this course, the student should be able to:

          1. Identify and use:

                    A. Safety rules and standards

                    B. Tools and equipment of the trade

                    C. Certain panel repair methods

                    D. Refinishing materials and techniques

                    E. Work skills

          2. Preperation of and the repair of light vehicle collisions

          3. Obtain knowledge and information on the proper painting teqniques with a paint gun, and airbrush

          4. Sucessfully complete projects:

                     A. Individual fender repair (filler, primer, refinish)

                     B. Customer vehicles ( demonstrations and live work)

                     C. Work on school Rat-Rod

Requirements: Responsible class attendence and PARTICIPATION are required and expected. Homework is due on assigned date- NO exceptions. Students will review all class and handbook rules and policies. Come prepared with shoes (No flipflops or any other open toe shoes)  and clothes (A pair of coveralls, or a set of clothes to change in to) to work in that will be ok if they get dirty or paint on them. Bring chromebook and charger daily, along with pencil and paper. 

Make-up work

    Any student lawfully absent from class, he/she will be given an opertunity to make up any classwork, homework, tests, or examinations missed. In cases where the work missed was a one time activity that cannot be feasibly be reproduced ( Field trips, production work activities, and/or interships), the student will be given an alternate assignment in lieu of the original assignment. 

     Upon returning from an excused absence, students will be given three days to make up the work missed for each day absent. When arangements are not made are not made by the student to make up work, or if the make-up work is not completed on time, the student will recieve NO credit.

I will record a number 1 on missing work in the gradebook until the work is made up. 

It is the students responsibility to contact their teachers for any make-up work!

 

Grades

50% of the students grade will consist of scores from homework/classwork and labwork. The remaining 50% will come from quizzes and tests. 

 

Class participation includes: Homework, classwork, and being prepared for shop duties. 

Class participation- 30%

Test- 20%

Lab/shop- 50%

 

Class rules

Cell phones- Are to be silenced and kept in bookbag or pocket. Phone will not be out during class!

Attendence- Students are expected to be in class ready to begin work when the tardy bell rings.

Leaving class- Students are not allowed to leave class without a proper hall pass. Students should plan to use the bathroom before class begins. 

Food and drinks- Are not allowed in class other than a water in a bottle. 

Disruptive talking- Will not be permitted. Upon the need to ask or answer a question, the student will raise their hand and wait to be recognized by the instructor. Students will remain in their seats until the dismissal bell rings. 

Safety- Students must have successfully completed the shop safety procedures and course before being allowed to use any of the tools and equipment in the shop!

Horseplay is a MAJOR safety violation and will result in a 500 word essay for the first offense

 

 Resourses

My email: greg.aldridge@ucps.k12.nc.us

Textbook: Collision repair 4th edition

Empowered family portal: https://www.ucps.k12.nc.us/domain/2917

• Canvas: The majority of assignments will be submitted on our learning platform, Canvas.  Assignments can be submitted a variety of ways including, uploading files, typing into text boxes, and sharing Google documents/presentations.  Students not having used Canvas before should alert the teacher and they will be shown how to submit assignments on Canvas.  Individual assignments will indicate which method of submission on Canvas is expected.  If students need a refresher or have questions, they can access the Canvas Student Guidefor specific instructions.  It is the student's responsibility to ensure assignments are submitted on time and to contact the instructor if there is a problem.  The Canvas Learning Platform logs every student log-in on Canvas which provides teachers with a list of when students log-in to Canvas using their user id. 

Canvas is used to grade assignments as well, however, the grades in Canvas, while accurate to that assignment, are NOT the teacher’s gradebook.  The teacher’s gradebook includes categories of assignments that may be weighted differently and may include grades for assignments that did not use the Canvas Learning Platform.  Therefore, students and parents should always check their child’s true average on the Parent Portal on Powerschool.