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Subaru of America drives onto campus
AUTOMATIVE PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH SUBARU OF AMERICA FOR POTENTIAL INTERNSHIPS
BY LIAM ANDERSON .
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
D onations d o n ’t com e in very often, but
the autom otive departm ent at C lackam as
Community College has received a donation
from Subaru o f America.
In the second and third-week o f September,
they received three cars that all arrived on
differents days from Subaru, a 2017 Outback,
a 2016 STI and a 2015 Forester.
These cars were donated to the students, in
order to get them acquainted with modem day
vehicles. Students in automotive classes such
as A utom atic Transm issions, Electric 1-2,
and Fueling Emissions will now have access
to these new vehicles.
The arrival o f the cars also brings a new
program to the students o f the autom otive
department. Automotive students now get the
chance to use Subaru factory tools and software
with the donation o f stand-alone car engines
and additional parts from the company.
With all the resources Subaru is providing
to students, and with the mixture o f Subaru’s
Online Training into CCC’s current curriculum
for the automotive department, students will
learn m ore to earn the .entry-level training
that Subaru technicians have today in modem
America.
Two students in particular, Tyler Lloyd and
Ross Dawkins, have ,been working on the 2017
O utback in the autom otive lab. Right now
both Lloyd and Dawkins are going through a
process and taking steps to educat themselves
on the Subaru brand.
“Right now w e’re going through a packet,
it’s basically we are plugging in systems into
the computer figuring out all different speed
sensors, basically everything to do with the
sensors in the car,” said Dawkins about the
process he and Lloyd are undertaking in order
to understand the Subaru brand.
“[To leam] about modem day cars and how
with Chevrolet and Wants to work specifically
on diesels, engines that power many Chevrolet
vehicles.
“ We are plugging
in systems into the
computers figuring out all
different speed sensors in
the car.”
-R oss Dawkins
they work, because everything else was more
based on the control modules.” said Lloyd.
R egardless, both students are definitely
interested in making it a career. Lloyd is unsure
o f where he wants to work and what he wants to
do with his experience in automotives. Dawkins
is planning to work towards getting to work
Subaru also wants automotive students to
earn a career, and to make sure the program
partnered with local Subaru service centers,
which w illh e lp students have a chance at a
paid internship or a job revolving around the
production o f Subarus.
Students in the department still have to keep
in mind that there are still specific goals in
classes, in order to make sure they qualify for
an internship or job at Subaru. At least that’s
what Jared Green, CCC’s automotive service
technology instructor, said regarding goals
for the vehicles.
“There are civic exercises that we do with
them, and some things we go through on the
computer controls [for the Subaru’s] for things
that we test and experiment with,” said Green.
G reen also said that there are “several
different levels” that students go through when
learning about the cars. An example o f this that
Green explained would be that the students
would go through what would be called the
“brakes class” by doing extra work for Subaru
revolving around vehicle brakes.
Students then take a specialized test o f that
class from Subaru, and students who pass
that test are considered “brake certified .”
Once certified, they w on’t have to go through
that process again, because they are already
certified to work on brakes for Subaru.
The autom otive departm ent and Subaru
are overall working w ith students to make
sure they are able to move on into working in
automotives in the future. As for.the program,
it is considered to be long-term at CCC.
“ [The cars] will be here for four years, and
then they’ll probably get repurposed or re­
donated, and then w e’ll have fresh ones four
years from now,” said Green.
Tyler Lloyd and Ross Dawkins stand near the Subaru Outback.
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The 2017 Subaru Outback worked on
by the automative department.
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