CDR Technician: Train the Trainer Course

Instructor: W. R. "Rusty" Haight

Cost: $550 for the training and an individual license to use the standardized, approved course materials for 2 years.

This specialized training course is open to only those who completed the Collision Safety Institute CDR Operator's Certification Course series (Technician and Analyst) after January 2010 or a previous Train the Trainer in the within 2 years.

Registration Type	Price	Method
CDR Technician: Train the Trainer Course Registration - Attendee	$550.00	PDF Registration
CDR Summit ATTENDEE Registration Attendee	$799.00	PDF Registration
EXHIBITOR Registration - Booth Does NOT include admittance to the CDR Summit presentations	$600.00
EXHIBITOR - Additional Person at Booth Does NOT include admittance to the CDR Summit presentations	$250.00
Please read the Conference Registration and Refund Policy prior to registering.By completing and submitting registration, you agree to the Conference Registration and Refund Policy.

Program Overview

For the past several years, representatives from CDR technology stakeholders including those from government, the auto manufacturers, Bosch, trainers, insurance and end users have held a “stakeholder’s summit”. This time is spent brainstorming trends, future projections, discussing issues and reaching effective solutions related to this rapidly changing technology.  At this year’s meeting, a hot topic was- particularly looking forward in support of government efforts and for potential “new” OEMs - uniform data accessibility.

Imaging data using the CDR system through the DLC is currently the best practice. The reality of highway crashes is that often cars, light trucks and SUVs are left in a condition which does not readily lend itself to DLC access.  Feedback from Collision Safety Institute's CDR System Technician Training and from government and industry stakeholders suggests that a change in the technician level training with an eye toward further changes and expansions in the CDR Analyst training is in order.

To that end, Bosch Preferred CDR Training offered by the Collision Safety Institute changed in 2011.  The program has evolved to meet the desire for increased training opportunities on the basics of using the CDR System, build confidence through individual, personalized guidance with hands-on experience with the system, and provide effective nearly one-on-one guidance by a Technician Mentor. Technician process took a new path to meet the needs of industry, government and end users more efficiently.  That path includes online training completed by hands on training and mentoring which will ultimately allow for an expanded and modular approach to the Data Analyst program.  The training process will start with online or classroom training and progress as seen in the levels described below:

• Level 1 CDR Technician (Basic CDR Technician)
  Offered either online or in a classroom as taught by a CSI trained “CDR Technician Trainer/Mentor”. The basic technician level training uncovers the CDR System user to the basics of the function of the CDR system so that, at a minimum, the new user can confidently image data from supported vehicles using the standard OBD II (“DLC”) port and, in most cases, directly from the in-vehicle module(s).
  
  
• Level 2 CDR Technician (CDR Technician Certification)
  Offered by regionally located CDR Technician Trainer/Mentors this is the hands-on extension follow up to the Basic CDR Technician course offering individual or optimally small group guided instruction in (1) in-vehicle DLC data imaging, (2) module location and identification and direct-to-module data imaging, (3) practical booster and adapter applications and (4) “back powering” in-vehicle systems to enable DLC data imaging.  This hands on instruction and then evaluation by a Trainer/Mentor would complete the CDR Technician Level certification and would be conducted by a qualified Trainer/Mentor.
  

This CDR Technician: Train-the-Trainer Certification course is an opportunity for qualified and experienced CDR Data Analysts to train others to the Technician Levels 1 and 2. This course provides qualified individuals with an opportunity to teach a one or two day CDR Technician Course; the prerequisite to the CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course. It does not qualify one to teach the CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course.

Those who successfully complete this course and provide personalization information will be provided with apersonalized training materials in order to teach the Technician Level 1 and 2 course. This material cannot be changed or used in conjunction with other Crash Data related courses and is licensed to the individual instructor for a 2 year period.  This policy ensures that the Technician Level course material presented is the same each time it's offered. Periodic updates will be made available to registered trainers as the Trainer course and CDR program is updated during the term of the license.

During this course, prospective trainers/mentors are walked through the course material, slide-by-slide and the concepts and purpose of each topic is explained in detail so the prospective trainer can comfortably and professionally present that material on their own.  Attendance at the Train The Trainer course alone is no guarantee an individual will successfully be licensed to teach the material.  During this course, individual potential instructors are evaluated for their understanding of the material, ability to process and present the material and competence as an instructor in this specialized topic area.

Once an individual has successfully completed this course, to be issued a set of training materials, Technician level Trainers will be expected to:

• Agree to use only the course material provided as part of this training during their presentations of the Technician class
  
  
• Agree to not redistribute any part of the provided course presentation material and not subcontract another instructor to present this material for that individual certified trainer
  
  
• Agree to have on hand during the course presentation a sufficient number of accessible Ford, GM and Chrysler modules - each with stored data - to facilitate in-class download exercises for class sizes up to 30 students, and own a current Bosch CDR System which the certified trainer would use during the presentation of the Technician level class

Each qualified CDR Technician Trainer/Mentor will be provided:

• Complete training curriculum for both the Level 1 and Level 2 CDR Technician courses
  
  
• Individual license to use the standardized, approved course materials for 2 years
  
  
• Discounted rate for the CDR Technician Level 1 online course, which can be provided to students to meet the prerequisite for CDR Technician Level 2 training
  
  
• Updates on individuals and groups that need CDR Technician training in your geographic area
  
  
• Marketing support from Collision Safety Institute and Crash Data Group

Why Become a Trainer/Mentor?

New users - individuals and entities - buying CDR Systems for the first time are eager to get out into the field and use their systems.
These new users need to be trained by a qualified "Trainer/Mentor" and you can be that individual.

While the current training regimen includes hands-on imaging in-class as part of the Technician level training, future coverage and potential developments in the CDR System as well as end user interest in cost-effective data collection suggests that training geared toward creative approaches to DLC based data collection is a priority.
People learn by doing and new users of the CDR System are no different.  With the potential of adding new OEM coverage and the corresponding probability of an expanding line of direct-to-module cables, the idea of reinforcing and prioritizing DLC  access opportunities takes on a higher priority which can best be addressed by CDR Technician Level 2 training.

Large group hands on exercises are more often than not demonstrably ineffective and typically nothing more than a waste of time for the majority of the large group. 
In reality, to take 2 hours of travel time and then 2 more hours at a tow yard, from a 40 hour week; to go to a near randomly selected tow yard to only then have a fraction of those at the yard from the class actively involved in CDR System use while the majority are left to stand around uninvolved, making phone calls, texting, or simply “passing the time” is, by any measure, counterproductive.  The realities of finding, by almost sheer coincidence rather than planning, accessible vehicles randomly at a tow yard and then overcome the historical propensity for those who do see some sort of data to try to speculate on the meaning of that data from the one vehicle rather than focus on the underlying process which is supposed to be the rationale for going to the yard in the first place.

Technician trainers are looking for opportunities to help spread the technology and get more experience as trainers.  
Those who have completed the CDR System Technician train-The-Trainer program are clearly the type of person who is eager to both help others use their CDR System as soon as possible but also properly. An evolutionary growth of the CDR Technician training designed to expand and support the opportunities for Technician Trainers is in everyone’s best interest.

The expansion of access to OEMs beyond Chrysler, Ford, and GM means that the Bosch preferred CDR Data Analyst course offered by the Collision Safety Institute will have to be refocused or expanded. 
Most crash reconstructionists can’t practically take more than a week away from their primary jobs for advanced training like the Data Analyst course but also recognize that this technology is rapidly changing and evolving and will continue to do so as new OEMs are added and older vehicles become less frequently encountered “legacy vehicles.” A balance between the interest in some sort of an Analyst level “update” -  which presumes an unrealistically impractical common starting point for all involved - and an interest in training focused on new OEM nuances and newer systems for the OEMs currently covered means that either the current 4 day, 32 hour format will have to be expanded or the content somehow shortened or quality compromised. The Collision Safety Institute won’t compromise on the quality of the materials meaning we have to look elsewhere for a way to maintain the current high level of material and content and/or expand the time available to that material.

A: CDR Technician Trainer/Mentors who have been given a two-year license from the Collision Safety Institute to use the CDR Technician training material are free to continue to use those materials for the remaining license period.  Those previously trained instructors are free to use the CDR Technician Level 1 materials through the end of their license term and continue the current training path in that respect.  Those individuals looking to expand their opportunities by being able to offer the revised CDR Technician Level 1 and newly expanded CDR Technician Level 2 materials would want to attend the Train-The-Trainer course offered after the CDR Summit on January 19th 2012.

Q: Why is this change in Technician training a good plan for Technician Trainer / Mentors?

A: Currently, a CDR Technician trainer offers what is roughly the equivalent of the basic or CDR Technician Level 1 course.  With the expansion of that course to an optional on-line offering and full CDR Technician certification (CDR Technician Level 2) requiring a hands-on period of instruction and evaluation by a CDR Trainer/Mentor, the  CDR Technician Trainer/Mentors will be in a position to offer their services to those individuals who have completed the online (CDR Technician level 1) course which should expand the opportunities for CDR Technician Trainer/Mentors to provide more training in their geographic regions.

As new individuals began to use the CDR technology, and complete the CDR Technician Level 2 training with a Trainer/Mentor, those local Trainer/Mentors will become a "known" or identified local expert point of contact, which would likely result in additional experience and training opportunities for those Trainer/Mentors.

A: No, this is a program set up to develop Technician Level Instructors only. CSI will continue to offer the full CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course separately.

A: Insurance companies, fleet administrators, police agencies and police academies - to name a few - have expressed an interest in offering some level of CDR training. The backgrounds, previous training and experience in various areas or levels of reconstruction and that within the CDR technology itself dictates that only those approved by the OEMs and Bosch will be allowed to teach the full CDR Data Analyst's Certification Course. The opportunity still exists to develop a larger base of "data collectors" - CDR data collection Technicians - within those larger groups. For example, insurance companies who understand the complexity of this technology recognize that sending out field claims representatives and having them analyzing CDR data in the absence of some background in reconstruction is a bad idea. Police agencies often have Crash Investigation units organized into field investigators and then reconstructionists. The field investigators would be trained to collect data from people, cars and the road but the reconstructionists would then be qualified to complete the end analysis of all that information. The same concept applies here, so this training would qualify one to train data collectors (CDR Technicians) using the standardized training course.

A: Those who successfully complete the "CDR Technician Course Train-the-Trainer Certification" course will be given a CD with the course presentation, exams and handouts on them. Each CD will be personalized for the individual approved instructor.  This assumes that the prospective student provides, in advance of the course, their personalization information such that the materials can be assembled prior to the class.

A: Yes, to be CDR Technicians but, no, not CDR Data Analysts. You will be instrumental in teaching others to collect data that can be then relied on by CDR Analysts/reconstructionists together with situationally complete reconstructions of a given case.

A: No, you cannot change the course material you will use now, under this license, can you teach material which would fall into the category of CDR Data Analysis.  The CD you will be given upon successful completion of the course will be personalized to reflect you as the approved instructor and may be customized at that time, before it is distributed, but not later.  You may add, separately, local regulatory or policy information and material (i.e.: information required by a police agency as it relates to impound or search warrant procedures) under this license.

A: The technician class is essentially a "living class."  That means, as the CDR program is updated, the content of the Technician class will also be updated.  When possible, we try to send out updates as soon as material may be practically and appropriately added to the class content; however, in most instances, updated material will be added as newer versions of the CDR program are released and there are changes to processes which may impact Technician activities or are aspects of the used of the program to gather data that would be something a Technician should know.