Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Automotive Major in Vocational Education Training

This paper has assessed the influence of artificial intelligence development on automotive major in vocational education curriculum. Different literatures related to vocational education and artificial intelligence development has been collected and qualitative analysis by using MAXQDA has been done. Humankind has the ability to create and learn new things due to the inborn capabilities. The innovation and development in use of machine has been through different stages. Intelligent machines are made to complete tasks without help from human. Application of science and engineering to make the machine intelligent enough that can understand human language and perform as human is known as artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is one of the major aspects of modern life about which most people have some degree of awareness. In the current era of artificial intelligence and ever hasty pace of technology innovation; economic development, employment, competitiveness, and vocational education and training schools impacted incredibly hard. These unprecedented changes brought by artificial intelligence has also challenged automotive major of vocational education training. Vocational education produces working force personnel for different companies and enterprises. Therefore, teaching curriculum of vocational education has to fit the requirements of companies and enterprises to mitigate the influence made by AI. The existing automotive curriculum is unable to catch the rapid changes made by the industries, consequently, it is concluded that it needs to be restructured with core courses of artificial intelligence with the cross integration of disciplines to cultivate highly skilled and comprehensive talented graduates. To be able to reduce the gap, automotive has to include the basics of AI into its teaching curriculum such as smart technology products, big data, physics, programming, cloud computing, deep learning and trending technologies. Furthermore, close cooperation of vocational school and industry is crucial to strengthen transfer of AI knowledge through learning by doing principle in company practices. Therefore, there should be changes according to the current technology changes in school education as a whole to not let AI obsolete its trainings.