The Automotive Manufacturing Technical Education Collaborative (AMTEC) is a consortium of 15 community colleges in seven states that is committed to the development and dissemination of exemplary technology training for skilled trades and technicians in the automotive and automotive supply industries. Over a two-year period, CCRC is studying how effectively AMTEC responds to the technical skills needs of automotive companies that participate in the collaborative, and the extent to which this diverse set of community colleges can develop an educational program that is useful for the automotive industry as a whole. CCRC will issue a final report in July 2008. This research is being funded by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, which is the principal investigator of this National Science Foundation funded collaborative.