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These automotive professionals represent the Certified Service Center network of more than 3,800 shops, which employs more than 10,000 techs.

In 2020, only four certification and recertification tests will have the new bilingual feature.

ASE offers free online study guides to help with the test-preparation process.

Questions focus on technology on modern vehicles or issues that technicians typically have difficulty diagnosing.

The annual awards banquet spotlights top scorers on the ASE certification tests.

For the first time, the conference featured two professional development tracks, one for training managers and a new one for training developers.

By the end of this year, 100,000 service professionals will have earned the L1 credential since its inception. Combining complicated generic questions with others requiring use of a Composite Vehicle reference booklet, the L1 test is the highest ASE credential that a driveability and emissions technician can achieve.

There are an estimated 879,000 technicians in the United States, with more than 250,000 of them holding ASE certification.

The conference will offer more than 60 technical sessions providing more than 100 hours of available training over three days.

After seven years of leading the Education Foundation, Trish Serratore has decided to transition to part-time status and will move back to ASE as senior vice president of communications. ASE Senior Vice President Mike Coley will take over her position as president of the ASE Education Foundation.

The two organizations provide this annual designation to recognize professional technicians who have achieved the extraordinary accomplishment of ASE certification in 22 specialty areas.

S/P2 has created the Workplace Mentoring System, which offers online courses covering the roles of the three key players – the mentor, the mentee and the manager.