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What's So Cool About Working in the Automotive Industry?

09/25/2012 6:04 PM

If you had to convince kids in school the automotive industry is Cool to work in now days, what would you tell them? Show them?

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09/25/2012 6:38 PM

What is your purpose?

Convince them to quit school and get a job in a garage?

Convince them to quit school and get a job in an auto factory?

Convince them to stay in school?

Convince them to go to Votech?

Convince them to go to college?

Convince them that "the automotive industry is Cool "?

Please don't tell me you want to convince them to be car salesmen!
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09/26/2012 1:36 AM

Let say working in the automotive manufacturing industry. Like programming robots. Using high tech equipment like infrared thermal imaging to detect lose connections. Being an engineer in the auto manufacturing industry, etc. etc.

Although I thought that one reply "showing how to re-program a car for enhanced performance was a cool idea.

Can't you just think of one idea Lyn?

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09/26/2012 9:38 AM

It's better than flipping burgers?
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09/25/2012 7:11 PM

I don't think you can convince anybody of anything....They either have the desire or they don't....Now if you want to find out who does, just take them around to custom shops, the'll be the ones whose eyes get big when looking at a custom hot rod....and then when looking at the engine, they start asking questions....

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09/25/2012 10:23 PM

After cashing checks for 45 years earned from automotive repairs. I think I would take a car or truck with reasonably good performance, and then reprogram it to increase performance, and then show them the difference. The fact that they can so dramatically change the performance of a vehicle so easily with a computer should open some eyes.

I realize that performance can be measured in different ways, acceleration, mileage, and emissions. If one of these changes does not excite the student, I don't know how to light the fire needed.

For me it was the sound and the feel of the power. From where I sit, I feel the repair industry is going in two directions. The typical gear head that wants to tinker with mechanical parts. The same as gearheads have done for one hundred years.

The other group is the computer savvy group that can scan, read, and interpret information from the vehicles at a tremendous rate. And then determine what is wrong with the vehicle.

The problem is the typical gearhead may be less than comfortable pulling information from the computers. And the computer savvy group may not be comfortable getting as dirty as some repairs require.

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09/26/2012 9:40 AM

"The problem is the typical gearhead may be less than comfortable pulling information from the computers. And the computer savvy group may not be comfortable getting as dirty as some repairs require."

This strikes me as a very good observation. GA.

What about the matching of suspension components and tires to a powertrain to improve performance, the everpopular energy from regerative braking, or the harvesting of all of that energy from hitting those speedbreakers?

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09/26/2012 3:48 PM

Missing the cool for kids. Maybe, if someone makes the connection for kids, like engineering and manufacturing can lead to being a super hero... see http://pinterest.com/pin/78461218479311806/ or working in glamorous Hollywood ... see http://pinterest.com/pin/78461218478423187/ that early on connection may stick with them like our childhood connections did.

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10/07/2012 4:30 PM

Maybe convince them that working in the automotive field is a stepping stone to building transformers.

Well, hey..you wanted "cool".

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