Fundamentals of Automotive Technology: Principles and Practice, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource that provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to successfully master these tasks

Resource added for the Automotive Technology program 106023.

Fundamentals of Automotive Technology: Principles and Practice covers crucial material for career and technical education, secondary/post-secondary, and community college students and provides both rationales and step-by-step instructions for virtually every non-diagnosis NATEF task. Each section provides a comprehensive overview of a key topic area, with real-life problem scenarios that encourage students to develop connections between different skill and knowledge components. Customer service, safety, and math, science, and literary principles are demonstrated throughout the text to build student skill levels. Chapters are linked via cross-reference tools that support skill retention, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Students are regularly reminded that people skills are as important as technical skills in customer service fields.

Hybrid drives and the operation of hybrid vehicles are characteristic of contemporary automotive technology. Together with the electronic driver assistant systems, hybrid technology is of the greatest importance and both cannot be ignored by today’s car drivers. This technical reference book provides the reader with a firsthand comprehensive description of significant components of automotive technology. All texts are complemented by numerous detailed illustrations.

The Fundamentals of Automotive Technology Advantage Package, Print Edition is an online learning solution for instructors using Fundamentals of Automotive Technology. The Advantage Package allows instructors to give students the tools they need to build a solid, knowledgeable foundation with market-leading content. Cutting-edge digital resources expand upon and reinforce this foundation, creating world-class automotive service technicians. The Fundamentals of Automotive Technology Advantage Package, Print Edition includes: * Fundamentals of Automotive Technology (printed text) - covers the entire spectrum of the 2012 National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) Automobile Accreditation Tasks Lists at the MLR, AST, and MAST levels. * Course Management Tools (Course Manager) - a complete online classroom. * Companion Website for Fundamentals of Automotive Technology - featuring an audio book and practice activities at www.cdxauto.com/CW/Fundamentals. With the resources available in the Fundamentals of Automotive Technology Advantage Package, instructors can simplify course administration with class management, reporting, and assessment tools. Instructors can track student progress, manage assignments and view results in the grade book - all done with little to no start-up time required. Note: In order to access digital resources, a student must be enrolled in a course where the instructor is using the Navigate platform.

Automotive technicians must learn how to safely and effectively maintain, diagnose, and repair every system on the automobile. Fundamentals of Automotive Technology provides students with the critical knowledge and essential skills to master these tasks successfully. With a focus on clarity and accuracy, the Second Edition offers students and instructors a single source of unparalleled coverage for every task from MLR through MAST. Fully updated and reorganized, the revised format enhances student comprehension and encourages critical thinking.

This Student Workbook contains exercises to reinforce what you will learn in both Fundamentals of Automotive Technology and the classroom. The Student Workbook is designed to encourage critical thinking and aid comprehension through a variety of exercises in each chapter, including: ASE-Type Questions - Test your critical thinking skills and prepare for certification exams. Skill Drill Activities - Test your skills with photo jumbles and caption fill-ins. Place photos in the correct order to test your knowledge of a skill and fill-in the captions to ensure that you know all the details of each step. Labeling - Master visual recognition with labeling activities that test your knowledge of automotive tools, parts, and systems. And More- Matching, multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and crossword puzzles.