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COURSE SYLLABUS

1. TITLE OF COURSE: ESTIMATING AND SHOP MANAGEMENT
  PREFIX/NUMBER: ACT 205 CREDIT HOURS: 3 CR. (2L/1.5 LBV)
2. PREREQUISITE: None
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:  
 

TEXT:

Motor Auto Body Repair by Robert Scharff
 

SUPPLIES:

1 spiral notebook, 3 no.2 pencils, 1 clipboard, work shoes, and basic hand tools
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Initiates written estimates on damaged vehicles. Students learn shop management including work orders, ordering supplies, operating costs, time cards, shop liabilities, employee’s safety and insurance management issues.
5. COURSE GOAL: The student will gain practical experience in estimating collision damage and shop management techniques.
6. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
  After completion of this course, the student should be able to:
  (A) Identify nomenclature using the collision repair manuals.
  (B) Write an estimate on parts replacement using a collision repair manual.
  (C) Estimate material and supply costs.
  (D) Inspect vehicle for collision damage.
  (E) Fill out owner information on a repair order.
  (F) Price parts, materials, and labor on a repair order.
  (G) Identify and dispose of hazardous waste according to Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
  (H) Identify personnel health and safety hazards according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines.
  (I) Inspect safety equipment on vehicles for replacement.
  (J) Identify policies and differences with the different insurance companies.
  (K) Build a scale model of a shop layout, along with documentation of policies procedures, and types of personnel needed to operate different sizes of shops.
  (L) Evaluate the procedure of salvage pool as it relates to Insurance Companies and the policies for totaling vehicles that are beyond repair due to cost.
7. EVALUATION PROCEDURES:
  Each student enrolled in the Automotive Collision program will be graded as follows:
  Lab skills attitude
  1. Lab work consists of:
   

(A)

 speed
    (B) accuracy
    (C) neatness and order
    (D) care of tools
    (E)

 

attitude: student work habits, promptness, good attendance, project decision making.  The ability to work without constant instruction.  Responsibility to any given project or assignment.  Laboratory projects will be evaluated on a weekly basis.
    lab skills 60%
    written assignments 20%
    written tests and quizzes 20%
    Each hour of absence constitutes a deduction of one point from the total final grade.  Tardiness will be counted in 15-minute increments.  The student will be dropped when he/she misses over 12 hours.
    Grading Scale
Raw Score Range		 Letter Grade
    100 to 93 A
    92 to 85 B
84 to 77 C
76 to 69 D
    68 to  0 F

Special Remarks:

1.

Regular attendance and class participation are of great importance for success in this Automotive Collision course. College attendance policy states that you may be dropped for absence of more than 20% of the scheduled class (12 hours).

2.

No make up time will be allowed without prior approval from the instructor.  It is the student’s responsibility to schedule any make up time needed.  Students are expected to spend at least 1 to 2 hours of study time outside of class for each hour you are scheduled in class.

3.

The PCC catalog for the year in which you started this program lists all academic policies, procedures, and requirements related to your enrollment and education.  It is your responsibility to read, understand, and follow that catalog as it relates to you.

8. COURSE OUTLINE:
  I. Write Estimates on Damaged Vehicles.

 

II.

Learn Shop Management.
  III. Work Order, Ordering Supplies, Operating Costs, Time Cards.
  IV. Shop Liabilities.
  V. Employee's Safety and Insurances Management Issues.
9. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
  To be successful in this course, students are expected to participate in discussions, readings, in-class writing, and peer review activities. The instructor may assign point values to such activities.
10. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
  The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
11. ADA NOTICE:
  Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the Disability Resources Center at 549-3446 for further information.