Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Fleming gets under the hood of one of the 2023 Hyundai EVs recently acquired by Penn College. "If you don't know how something works, you can't properly diagnose an issue," he told Keating. "So for us to be able to be hands-on instead of talking about them in lecture, that's going to help us a ton whenever we get into the workforce."
WNEP's Chris Keating visited Penn College's Parkes Automotive Technology Center on Tuesday afternoon, interviewing an instructor and student about the automotive program's expanded EV curriculum.
The ABC affiliate's Central Pennsylvania Bureau reporter talked with Charles F. Probst, the faculty member teaching the college's new Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology course, and Sheldon C. Fleming, of Allensville, an automotive technology student who just completed its first session this semester.
Keating's report premiered during Tuesday's Newswatch 16's 7 p.m. broadcast.
Probst, a faculty member since 2005, says working on electric vehicles will give Penn College automotive graduates a definite leg up when they enter the job market. "Students, when they leave here, they'll probably know more than the average technician does at their repair shop as far as the EV aspect of the vehicle."
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