{"id":4663,"date":"2014-02-01T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/199.250.217.132\/~fixhyb5\/fixhybrid-new\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2014-02-01T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T17:54:47","slug":"february-and-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fixhybrid.com\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"February and Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The state of training in America for working automotive technicians is a piece meal collection of night classes, convention short takes, webinars, streaming video and parts companies offering subsidized classes at warehouses. Taken as a whole there is a lot of great training available, but what if you lack a formal, organized foundation to use as your knowledge base for understanding the information presented. Do you have an associate\u2019s degree as \u201cAutomotive Science\u201d? I don\u2019t. When I was first learning to \u201cfix cars\u201d, it was mostly mechanical. In High School \u201cauto class\u201d it was also something I could see, smell, hear and touch and that was easy for me. Being color blind (a bad term for mixing up red and green mostly) I was afraid of electrical systems. This was the late 60\u2019s. Not a huge issue and one that I was to overcome later in life when I was able to ask for a second pair of eyes. But now it is 2014 and my students (some older than me, but not many!) need at least 2 years of study (4 would be better) after high school.<\/p>\n

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Craig van Batenburg, leaning on the hood of a Prius, in the Netherlands at Midtronics office.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You all know our best known class \u201cUp Your Voltage!\u201d is ACDCs test bed for new things. Class # 36 is coming up so we have had some practice developing training techniques, many of which are used by others that we have trained. One thing we do the first day is give each student a three question test in the form of a wiring diagram. It takes only 10 minutes. \u00a0About 80% of American technicians get part of it wrong. 100% of the Dutch students get it correct and that is over 100 Dutch students so far and 400 Americans.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Holland (the Netherlands) required a college education to \u201cfix cars\u201d. The Dutchies, as we call them, learn the basics at the age when it really matters, right out of High School. They are not smarter than us, but are better educated as a nation.<\/p>\n

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I will be at a college in the Netherlands next month teaching. I can\u2019t wait. Not just because my Father\u2019s Father was born and raised there or that I can visit my ancestor\u2019s \u201cBatenburg Castle\u201d but it inspires me to do more and be better. On a trip there in 2006, I was introduced to a company called \u201cElectude\u201d. It was E-based learning with great interactive automotive systems with meters to hook up and get readings. It was awesome, but only in Dutch. I am an English speaker only. Today part of my love of Holland is here in America.\u00a0 Please go to our Electude<\/a> page for more information about the \u201cDutch\u201d way of getting your electrical skill training you may have missed.<\/p>\n

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