Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Technician (Co-op Optional)

at Confederation College of Applied Arts and Technology Canada

Confederation College’s Welding Techniques certificate program gives you the knowledge and hands-on experience you need to get a start in this exciting and in-demand field. Using our conventional and state-of-the-art welding power sources, you’ll get practical experience in various welding techniques. You’ll also get the shop instruction required to work towards your four position Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) certification – flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead – that most employers use as the standard for employment. Courses include basic arc welding, blueprint reading, pipe to plate, T-joints, basic metallurgy, pressure plate, and advanced welding.

Top Highlights

• Get hands-on training with our conventional and state-of-the art welding equipment
• Program prepares you for your CWB certification, the standard for employment for most shops
• Personalized instruction provides plenty of opportunity for one-on-one learning
• Program meets industrial standards, principles, practices, and trade disciplines of today’s job market

Confederation College’s Business Administration – Accounting three-year diploma program takes it a step further from the two-year Business Accounting diploma. As with the two-year program, you’ll learn the basics of accounting principles and finance along with advanced courses in the third year including auditing, project management and case analysis. Your last semester will be dedicated to a work placement so that you get real-world experience that will give you an even bigger advantage on the job market.

Top Highlights

• Earn your two-year diploma before continuing on to third year
• Provides more job opportunities and career advancement opportunities than two-year program
• Full-semester work placement in the final semester
• Continue on to a university degree through articulation agreements

Confederation College’s Developmental Services Worker program will give you the skills and experience you need to support individuals in living their life to the fullest. Coursework includes study in developmental disabilities, teaching strategies, health promotion, augmentative communication and assistive technology, pharmacology, dual diagnosis, trends and issues, behavioural supports, counselling skills and community development. If you believe in inclusion, individualization and empowerment for all people in our community, this program is for you!

Top Highlights

• Program includes two field placements so that you can learn in real-world environments
• Gives you the knowledge and skills that you need to support people to reach their full potential
• Practice knowledge and skills in a lab setting and plan real community events with schools and agencies
• Also offered as an accelerated program for those with a college diploma in a community services program or those with a degree in a related field

Industrial Manufacturing Processes is a post-graduate program, unique in Canada. Building on Confederation College’s portfolio of advanced manufacturing and engineering programs, the program combines theory with applied shop courses. It covers a range of industrial engineering topics with a focus on advanced manufacturing processes applicable to a wide variety of industries.

It is specifically designed for international students with a mechanical, industrial or aeronautical engineering degree. Students benefit from a solid exposure to applied learning, practical applications and lab work, which complements the theory they have already learned in their degree programs.

Students’ knowledge and skills about all stages of the production process will improve - from selection and design, through to building, quality control and the final stages of product testing. Students will also be exposed to topics related to careers in management, including courses on project management and occupational health and safety.

The applied learning in this program exposes students to Canadian engineering processes, which enhances their skills and improves their employability. The program also includes some business courses to provide students with business knowledge and skills applicable to related entry-management positions.

Our networked world is becoming more connected all the time. Not just the Internet – HVAC systems, manufacturing robots, industrial processes and a thousand other systems rely on electronic components to keep them operating and talking to each other.

But it still takes a person to install and maintain the hardware and software needed to keep it all running smoothly. Could that person be you?

Confederation College’s Electronics Engineering Technician – Computers two-year diploma program will give you the foundation you need to find a job in this growing field. You’ll learn about electronics and computer fundamentals, applied mathematics, telecommunications, networks, automation control systems and computer software.

Top Highlights

• Learn how to install, interconnect, configure, implement, and troubleshoot network systems
• Work with hardware wiring centres, routers, voice network hardware
• Two optional Co-ops give you a work experience in the field
• Subsidized education program available
• Option to transfer to the Electrical Engineering Technology program at the beginning of Year 2

Through Confederation College’s Environmental Technician two-year diploma program, you will learn to effectively manage natural and man-made environments. This program will explore environmental issues and provide hands-on tools for assessing, protecting and restoring ecosystems. Best of all, you’ll learn in one of the greatest natural labs available: the Boreal Forest, a rich and diverse forest ecosystem that stretches around the northern hemisphere. Courses cover a wide variety of related topics including plant identification, natural resource measurements, soils & geomorphology, ecology, waste management, ground water, surface water and water & waste water treatment.

Top Highlights

• Courses developed in consultation with industry and government familiar with northern Ontario and based on current cutting-edge practices
• Program includes two optional co-ops after the second and fourth semesters that give you work experience in the field
• Balance of class work, field study and placements for a well-rounded education
• Ontario’s Entry-Level Drinking Water Operator Certificate possible, upon graduation
• Transfer credits to other related college and university programs through our Articulation Agreements

In this two year, graduate certificate program, students develop marketable technical, business management, and interpersonal skills, all of which respond to the pressing ICT needs of businesses in all sectors of Canada’s economy.  Students hone their technical skills, creating commercial applications and ICT solutions for SMEs (small and medium size enterprises).  At the same time, they gain training in Canadian workplace business practices, entrepreneurship, and interpersonal dynamics.  Combined, these help internationally trained graduates obtain employment that is commensurate with their skills and qualifications.

The program enables students to become proficient in the practices and techniques used in modern ICT infrastructures. Students learn how to develop and implement practical solutions to solve typical ICT problems and challenges faced by smaller companies & businesses.  Instructional methodology integrates theory with real-life simulations and hands-on applications.  Students apply their acquired knowledge and skills to industry-based cases, simulations and projects, working on both individual and several collaborative team projects.

Students also advance their problem solving, presentation and critical thinking skills throughout the period of study.  They then bring all this training together in a capstone project in the final semester, where they manage and complete a technical project in collaboration with industry.

Upon graduation students are prepared to use a combination of technical, business, and soft/interpersonal skills to help small and medium sized enterprises achieve success within the digital economy. 

Confederation College’s Business program is a two-year Ontario College Diploma program for students who want a comprehensive education in all areas of business.

You will study finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, accounting, human resources, and organizational behaviour to give you a broad understanding of these key areas. This program will help you prepare for a wide range of job opportunities in business, giving you a solid foundation to build your career.

Most importantly, the Business program gives you options. This program has a common first year with the Accounting, Human Resources, and Marketing programs, allowing you to transfer to one of these programs after the first year if you choose.

Top Highlights

• Touches upon all areas of business to help you find what interests you most
• Gives you a well-rounded business education to prepare you for a wide variety of business careers
• Allows you to transfer to Accounting, Human Resources, or Marketing after your first year
• Receive your Business Fundamentals Certificate after your first year

Leadership in Patient Support and Administration is a 1-year program. It is a career-oriented program that is designed to equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge. Students in this program take courses from Personal Support Worker program, as well as the Leadership for Healthcare Professionals program.

• Leadership for Healthcare Professionals
• Personal Support Worker

Confederation College’s Practical Nursing program is a two-year program with an emphasis on providing nursing care to stable, predictable patients across their lifespan.

Courses in the Practical Nursing program cover a wide variety of topics including foundational theory courses, nursing skills/procedures, pharmacology, pathophysiology (disease processes), nursing assessment, and clinical practice. Students will develop the nursing skills needed to help people at various stages of life (infant to older adult) and experience a wide range of exciting clinical practice experiences! Students who graduate from a Ministry approved Personal Support Worker Program may also have advanced credits in the Practical Nursing Program. Students who graduate from the Practical Nursing Program often set their sights on a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree after completing the Practical Nursing Program. 

Top Highlights

• Graduates are eligible to write the examinations required to practise and register with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Program includes clinical hours so that you obtain on-the-job experience working with other experienced Registered Practical Nurses
• Our Practical Nursing program is currently approved (Category 1) by the College of Nurses of Ontario (www.cno.org).

Program Learning Outcomes
The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Communicate therapeutically with clients and members of the health care team.
• Assess clients across the life span, in a systematic and holistic manner.
• Plan safe and competent nursing care, based upon a thorough analysis of available data and evidence-informed practice guidelines.
• Select and perform nursing interventions using clinical judgment, in collaboration with the client and, where appropriate, the health care team, that promote health and well-being, prevent disease and injury, maintain and/or restore Health, promote rehabilitation, and/or provide palliation.
• Evaluate the outcomes resulting from all interventions in the nurse-client interaction and modify the plan of care as required.
• Act equitably and justly with clients and members of the health care team.
• Adapt to a variety of health care settings, using different leadership skills and styles as appropriate to each setting.
• Contribute to creating a healthy and safe work environment in a variety of health care settings.
• Practise in a self-regulated, professional and ethical manner, complying with relevant legislation and with the standards of both the regulatory body and the practice setting to provide safe and competent client care.