Automotive Restoration AAS

Precision measurement, visual documentation, and operating metal lathes and milling machines are all important skills. You'll use these skills to reproduce a component for a car, focusing on common industrial metals used in the machining process and machine tool maintenance.

There's nothing worse than having car parts left over. To get it back together properly, you'll do practical historical research, outline a restoration plan, disassemble, visual inspection, and written and photographic documentation to restore vintage automobiles.

Study the electrical systems used in classic cars. You'll explore Ohm's law, electrical circuits, battery power, electrical circuit components restoration, and preservation strategies to diagnose, repair, and replace electrical components.

Learn metal body repairs and panel finishing. You'll evaluate body components, outline appropriate repair procedures, strip existing finishes, and repair them.

Pull off a perfect paint job. You'll gain vintage vehicle paint restoration skills, focusing on panel preparation, paint systems, equipment care, application, documentation, and evaluation of surface faults. Plus, learn to correct painted surface faults.

Learn about the various tools, equipment, supplies, and subskills required to properly assemble a vehicle. Focus on understanding the many subsystems within a car and learning how to bring them all together properly.

Develop skills in drafting and mechanical drawing to clearly communicate three-dimensional design ideas. Using industry-standard dimensioning principles and Autodesk Fusion, you’ll learn to translate concepts into precise visual representations.

The ability to communicate your design ideas in quick and accurate ways is a valuable skill. Through design and modeling projects, you will learn to make design models for industrial design evaluation.

Gas. Arc. MIG. TIG. Working from maquettes, you'll use these welding techniques and combine them with smithing to create wearable forms, free-standing sculptures, or wall pieces.