ABT 235 Estimating and Shop Management

15 credits

 

Prerequisites: ABED 40  (or placement into MATH 87  or higher) and ABED 46  (or placement into ENGL 93  or higher)

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Identify a vehicle, major body sections, body classifications, and panels
• Identify basic unibody structures
• Identify full frame designs
• Explain crash testing done to a vehicle
• Obtain service information
• Create an electronic estimate
• Order parts used for repair
• Interact with sublet relationships
• Implement basic lean processing techniques
• Interact professionally with customers, insurance companies, and employees
• List the different types of jobs available in the industry
• Create and maintain a safe and efficient shop
• Follow general shop, material, and personal safety procedures
• Read an SDS
• Identify the various types of direct and indirect damage
• Identify the various types of structural and non-structural damage
• Determine necessary sublet work
• Determine if a vehicle is totaled
• Define the elements of proper wheel alignment, including caster, camber, toe, thrust line alignment, steering axis inclination, and turning radius
• Describe the design and operation of parallelogram, rack-and-pinion, and four wheel steering
• Explain the operation of front, rear, and computer suspension systems
• Explain different electrical diagnostic equipment
• Describe air bag system and restraint system servicing requirements
• Use other common types of equipment, hand tools, and supplies
• Comply with hazardous material laws and processes
• Apply the knowledge of safety laws and common sense safety procedures

• demonstrate skill in refinishing, structural repair, non-structural repair, estimating, and shop management