Bellingham Technical College Transportation Technology Programs

Time to celebrate the class of 2024!

Huge thanks to King County Metro for hosting the Automotive and Diesel students for an amazing tour of their Tukwila Bus maintenance facility. The conversion to electric propulsion has commenced!

Graduate Spotlight: Congratulations to Cole Miller (class of 2019) for recently obtaining Ford’s Master Technician status celebrated by a trip to the Motor City. Way to go Cole!

Friday is lab day in Alternative Energy - students scanning and learning.

Big thanks to WRS for partnering with us to provide real-world experiences for our Diesel Technology students.

BTC continues to invest in bringing the most current information to our students.

Automotive instructor Nick and Diesel instructor Marshall attended VISION HiTech Training & Expo in Kansas last week.

Their newly gained knowledge will transfer directly into the classroom.

End of the road BBQ for the 2023 Automotive Technology Grads!

Thank you to all the businesses supporting BTC’s Transportation students at yesterday’s Career Fair. Fun fact: 3 BTC Automotive grads were representing employers.

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Hundreds of high-schoolers descended on BTC today for Tour Day 2022. Thanks to students Perry, Miko, Leandra, Andrew, Carter, Owen, and Luis for showing up and making it happen. Thanks to our own John for leading the day!

It's been a great year for our students.

It begins!

Thank you to all businesses who hosted an Automotive Intern this summer...

Lucky's Auto Shop
Bellingham Ford
Unlimited Service Downtown
Toyota of Bellingham
Mork's Automotive
Pete's Auto Repair
Karmart Nissan
Rairdon's of Bellingham CDJR
Sleepy Hollow Performance
Firestone Complete Auto Care
Karmart Volkswagen
Dewey Griffin Subaru
Service Pro Inc.
Trottners Auto Repair Service
Haselwood Chevrolet

Catching up with graduates and their progress always makes for great times!

BTC Automotive graduate sharing his experience.

Starting a $40K+/Month Mechanic Shop The consistent customer demand for high-quality auto repair makes a mechanic business a great recession-proof option for aspiring entrepreneurs. Lucky Sing s...

Checking on student interns during summer has the side benefit of visiting with alumni. Proud!

BTC faculty spent last week getting Subaru training direct from the source.
What OEM level training have you received?

Last week we celebrated the end of the road for this crew.
Congratulations Graduates! (missed you Mitchell)

As the 2021-2022 school year comes to an end, the Automotive and Diesel Technology students joined together for a BBQ. Huge shout out to John for doing the shopping, prep work and performing grill master duties.

Thanks to John, Alyssa and the crew at Toyota of Bellingham Mercedes-Benz of Bellingham for a great tour!

Green Flag! On the biggest race day in America, which do you prefer?

Thanks to John, Dan and crew at for a great shop tour and rich industry discussion.

Sensor diagnosis is the name of the game as Brendan and Jeremy are diagnosing a stubborn P0345 on our Impreza.

Every year our students perform an amazing transformation.

https://youtu.be/AIElKUE9Gtc

BTC Engines 2022 Consulab Hyundai 1.6L Trainer Engines tear down and reassemble & test bench run Winter 2022

We have had a few busy weeks as students get ready for Summer Internships.

Last week Ford and Tesla paid us visits.

Celebrating Earth Day with some ride and drives of our Prius and Leaf.

Curious what the 2020-2021 school year at Bellingham Technical College Automotive Technology will look like?

Bellingham Technical College Automotive Technology updated their phone number.

The buzz this year at AAPEX is all things ADAS. Should make for a good assignment!