Essential Skill Alignment Chart: Small Engines/Recreational Vehicle Repair – CIP Code 47.0699

This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Small Engines/Recreational Vehicle Repair program at Lehigh Career & Technical Institute. For additional information, please visit the program webpage.

Program Safety & Physical Considerations

  • Ability to focus on safety around moving equipment, hand tools, power tools, and other equipment found in the industry
  • Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time
  • Ability to diagnose the source of a problem quickly and accurately
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to read and follow directions
  • Ability to tolerate some chemicals and strong odors

Essential Aptitudes Recommended

  • Good eye/hand/foot coordination
  • Good finger and manual dexterity
  • Mechanical ability
  • Some heavy lifting
  • Ability to use hand tools
  • Form perception
  • Spatial acuity

Reading & Language Arts Levels

  • College Prep Reading and Language Arts
  • 12th grade plus comprehension (texts and manuals)
  • Adequate oral and written communication skills

Math Level

  • Basic Math Level
  • College Prep Algebra I
  • Ability to apply weights and measures, metric system, fractions, decimals, percentages, estimations needed to perform a work activity

End of Year – 12th Grade Assessment Test

  • NOCTI

Industry Certifications

  • Students will have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in the program

Program Requirements & Related Costs

  • Pants: $30
  • Shirt: $7
  • Steel Tip Shoes above ankle: $40
  • Belt: $10

Cooperative Education

  • Students who meet all the requirements, including teacher recommendation, grades, attendance, and discipline record
  • Students must provide their own transportation to and from the job site

Articulation Agreements

  • Statewide articulation agreements
  • Universal Technical Institute – Motorcycle Mechanics Institute

Other Skills

  • Ability to work independently and as a team member to complete projects
  • Attention to detail very important
  • Ability to tolerate environment with several sensory inputs, dust and fumes, loud and sometimes startling noises, background noise, moving people and vehicles
  • Communication skills
  • Problem solving skills

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