Diesel and Truck Service Management — Nashville

The overall goal of this course is to facilitate a smooth transition to school by engaging the student in curriculum focusing on academic, career, and life skills. Students will make connections with key personnel within the school that will assist with their questions and provide guidance throughout their education.

The student will be introduced to automotive systems, industry certifications, and job opportunities. Students will learn essential skills for the vehicle technician including safety, equipment fundamentals, and the proper use of measurement tools such as dial indicators, micrometers, and calipers.

The automotive content will be balanced by an emphasis on skills that will enable students to be successful in school and in life. These skills will include time management, financial management, goal setting, learning strategies, career planning, and critical thinking strategies.

This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform service, maintenance, and PM Inspection on medium and heavy-duty trucks and trailers. The student will learn the proper procedures that must be taken to perform a PM Inspection including the completion of PM Inspection forms. The student will learn how a well-planned preventive maintenance program can reduce repair cost and increase the life of the truck, trailer, and other associated equipment. The student will learn how to properly inspect, lubricate, and repair or replace as necessary; components of the truck drive line as well as checking for proper driveline angles and balance. The student will learn how to perform the proper service, maintenance, repairs and inspection procedures on the trailers lighting system, wheels, tires, brakes and other safety related components as required by law. The student will learn how to disassemble, inspect, service, and reassemble, the fifth wheel. Students will learn how to properly perform the necessary service and maintenance procedures related to pintle hooks and drawbars. Students will learn how to research vehicle service information with computer and internet based electronic retrieval systems.

Students develop written communication skills, with emphasis placed on the principles of effective communication which includes understanding the writing process, analysis of readings, as can be applied personally and professionally.

This course focuses on algebraic concepts essential for success in the workplace and other courses. Using real world examples and applications, students practice fundamental operations with number systems, formulas, algebraic expressions and liner equations. This course also explores problems involving factoring, inequalities, exponents, radicals, linear equations, functions, quadratic equations and graphs. Skills for success in mathematics will be emphasized.

This course introduces human behavior. It includes the study of the theories and concepts of psychology including the scope of psychology, biological foundations and the brain, sensation, perception, motivation, personality, learning/memory, emotion, states of consciousness, personality theories, cognition, life-span development, and applied psychology.

This course presents students with techniques to develop their critical thinking skills. Topics include the six sequential steps of critical thinking, the importance of language, ambiguity, structure of arguments and creative problem solving. Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to demonstrate an improvement in their ability to apply critical thinking skills to real world situations.

This course is designed to be an exploration of how American government formed in its constitutional roots and how it continues to develop. Topics will include how government is organized, its influencing factors, and the development of public policy.