Diesel Systems Technician 1

Short Description:

This program focuses on learning and working with various diesel vehicles such as buses, trucks, fire trucks, semis, motorcoaches, heavy equipment, and others. Students engage in hands-on experience with mechanical and electrical systems engines, fuel injection systems, and perform diagnosis, repairs, and preventive maintenance.

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 maintaining and repairing diesel engines and electrical systems; reconditioning diesel fuel injection systems; overhauling diesel engines; and performing diesel engine preventive maintenance.

The course content should also include training in communication, leadership, human relations and employability skills; and safe efficient work practices.

Certification/Licensure: ASE T6 Medium/Heavy Duty Electrical and ASE T2 Medium/Heavy Truck Technician.

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.
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