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20 Undercar Digest photoTech 18 19 20 21 22 All students in the program have a laptop or tablet computer. Automotive diagnostics virtually lives and dies by your ability to understand what is going on with electronic controls, programs and computers. Students in this program are perhaps the most computer-literate trained individuals that you will find in the United States. ■ This vehicle has been modified to have test diagnostic points available on the radiator core support. This enables students to perform pinpoint diagnostics and put in fault procedures to be diagnosed by other students without tearing the vehicle apart, providing more educational opportunities. Although not easy to build, it provides far more efficient educational opportunities. Another student monitors and records the parameters of the IM 240 test, which will then be charted by the students to a bar-graph diagnostic-reporting procedure, which will be reported by the class. Instructor Tim Janello observes the process. Here's a student at the four-wheel chassis dyno performing some engine work prior to performing an IM 240 drive test. SIU offers hands- on total-student learning in a nurtured and a highly educational opportunity program. Here a student is receiving some one-on-one feedback from an instructor on a project they've been working on. 17 The instructor and a student from the reprogramming team analyze the results of the output shown on the dyno. It is truly a hands-on program and provides a maximum learning opportunity.