ATTC Automotive Technology Department

1. Background Information

The Automotive Technology Department was established in 1997 to train qualified Automotive Technicians. The training was designed to produce highly qualified technicians who are capable of servicing, repairing, and utilizing vehicles and vehicle components.
Automobiles are growing increasingly complex with each model year as manufacturers respond to the public’s interest in better mileage, comfort, aesthetic, and more stringent emission control systems in this electronic age. The program was later upgraded to degree level in 2010 for the graduates or automotive technologists to effectively handle the increasingly complex jobs in the automotive industry.
The diversification and expansion in the automobile engineering & business sector have persisted at a greater pace and with many facets. The business in the sector that includes the sales, marketing dealership is achieving so much momentum as the technological advancement or progress. Due to low labor rates unsaturated market, automobile manufacturing and assembly plants are also on the booming edge in the country.
Thus in addition to handling repairing and maintaining the complicated systems of today’s vehicles, automotive technologists need to be equipped with the general business and production of automobiles which Is currently assuming very great share in the sector.
On the other hand, educational institutions or systems of every discipline are moving to achieve uniformity and standardization in respective studies.
The present and recent curriculum is thus designed on one hand to respond to the unification or modularization demands in the training of the automotive technology program nationwide and globally and to the ever increasing forms of the sector on the other hand.
The high-level skills and knowledge acquired by the students in the analysis and design of vehicle components and vehicle systems enable the graduates to meet the continuous, long-standing, and ever-increasing demand for qualified personnel in sectors engaged in the automotive, agricultural, and road construction equipment design, production, sales, and exploitation.

1. Program Objectives

The Department of Automotive Technology has a firm commitment to achieving excellence in teaching and maintaining the highest standards in professional preparation. The Undergraduates of Automotive Technology in the department would have developed a depth of understanding that enables them to contribute to the  Automotive Technology profession. The Department also seeks to forge a close interaction with the Main Automotive Workshops/Companies operating in the Country and to foster an on-going exchange of ideas between the faculty us and them.
The primary objective of the Automotive Technology program is to prepare our students as high achieving individuals who commit themselves to excellence, hard work, and superior performance. Whether they choose to work in the industry/service& Maintenance sector or to work in Universities & other Learning Institutes, we want them to stand out as role models.
The objective of the Automotive Technology program is to:

• prepare students for successful careers as Automotive Technologists
• Provide graduates with an outstanding education, and research skills and knowledge to their future career aspirations.
• Provide Graduates with a pool of highly educated people who can utilize their acquired knowledge to enhance the competitive edge of their employer.
• Provide Graduates with the knowledge, skills, and educational background required to synthesize technical and economic/business management issues in the solution of both theoretical and practical problems.
• Graduates

The Automotive Technology Department has been releasing graduates in the automotive sector to the automotive industry since its establishment. The department has graduated, after successfully completing the program, a total of 420 trainees on different levels from 1997 to date (2018). The level and gender distribution of the graduates are summarized as under.

• 153 graduates in Advanced Diploma among them 8 are female graduates.
• 22 graduates in the TVET Program in which 4 of them are females graduates.
• 70 graduates in Applied Technical BSc Degree 3 year’s program, among them 7 are females.
• 163 graduates in Applied Technical B.Sc. Degrees 4-year program, among them 28 are female graduates.
• 1998/99 up to 2017/2018 academic year total graduates 420 TVET Diploma, Advanced Diploma, and B.Sc. Degree among them 44 are female.