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Exploding Technology Pushes Instructors, Students to Keep Up

KCKCC Tech Center_jpgFor a person choosing a career in automotive maintenance, the almost daily evolution of technology in the automobile presents ever-greater challenges.

“If you are in this business,” said John Hattok, “you will never stop going to classes or getting information.”

Hattok, an automotive technology associate professor at Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Thomas Burke Technical Education Center, has been teaching auto tech in Kansas City, Kan., since 1992.

His students learn in a classroom setting and repair the basics in cars that are brought in from the community.
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