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| Automotive Drive Mechanisms | |||
| AUTO DR MECH | |||
| CLASS CODE: | AUTO 165 | CREDITS: 4 | |
| DIVISION: | PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Principles and theory, diagnosis and repair of clutch mechanisms, manual transmissions and transaxles, transfer cases, drive shafts, and drive axles. Students must also register for an Auto 165L lab. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Winter | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | Clutches, manual transmissions and transaxles, transfer cases, drive lines, u-joints, and differentials. | ||
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | Obtain a working knowledge of the automobile drive train. Gain as much experience as possible on as many types of projects relating to this topic as available. Give the students hands-on experience similar to that received in the automotive trade. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Students will be required to attend lectures and demonstrations, participate in class discussions, complete textbook assignments, observe multi-media presentations and memorize automotive parts. Learning assessment will consist of worksheets, tests, classroom presentations and a research paper. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | Automotive major or consent of the instructor. | ||
| OTHER: | Students are not permitted to work on their own cars in this class. If your car needs repaired, it will be repaired by another student in the class. | ||
| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 1992 | ||