Certificate in Gas and Oil Burner Technician 2

at Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology - Fennel Campus Canada

This graduate program is designed to provide, the essential product management skills required to support the strategic development of products and services for domestic and international markets.

Program Highlights

• Forms product managers by strengthening tactical and strategic business skills needed to develop and introduce products and services in the global marketplace.
• Product Management is one of the seven career fields representing the highest demand areas for talent with tech companies (Breaking into Tech Report).
• Benefits from entrepreneurial perspectives and other industry insights from professionals who work in international trade, investment, and product management.
• Mohawk College is located in the midst of the Toronto - Waterloo Innovation Corridor, home to more than 15,000 technology companies and thousands of start-ups that require talented people to help them turn their research strength into global commercial success.

What you'll learn

• Understand customer needs and gather product/business requirements
• Research potential opportunities considering cultural, financial, legal and distribution issues
• Develop the roadmap of a product or service that includes outlining Its features and target market to help meet global company goals
• Manage projects using more flexible project management methods that are becoming industry standard for making technology-based products and services
• Bring the product to market, that includes launching the product, communicating product features to the company and potential customers and driving global demand for the product
• Gather the body of knowledge required to attempt the New Product Development Professional Certification

Contribute to business and individual insurance planning and security while preparing to earn important industry credentials.

Program Highlights

• Over 90% of our graduates obtain an insurance career position once they graduate.
• Mohawk has over 40years experience in educating insurance professionals. The insurance industry provides awards and scholarships in the amount of $10,000 annually.
• Very close links with the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business - Accounting
  • Business Administration
  • Business Administration - Accounting
  • Business Administration - Human Resources
  • Business Administration - Marketing
  • Business - Financial Services)
  • Business - General
  • Business - Marketing

What you'll learn

• Prepare for the Registered Insurance Brokers of Ontario License.
• Complete, on an accelerated basis, eight out of ten credits required for the Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation from the Insurance Institute of Canada.

Learn about marketing and its role in the business environment. Enhance your skills in advanced digital marketing, solve marketing problems for real clients and practice your knowledge with an optional co-op placement.

Program Highlights

• Study with professors who have worked as marketing professionals and bring their expertise to the classroom.
• Upon completion of a common first semester, you may choose to transfer into the second semester of one of the following programs:
  • Business - Accounting (non co-op 316 or co-op 356)
  • Business - Administration (632)
  • Business Administration-Accounting (364)
  • Business Administration - Human Resources (363)
  • Business - Marketing (319)
  • Business - Financial Services (303)
  • Business - General (320)
  • Insurance (318) (non co-op 318 or co-op 368)

What you’ll learn

• How to conduct market research and create marketing strategies for real clients.
• Verbal and written communication skills as you prepare reports and presentations.
• Web marketing strategies and tools.
• Use computer simulation to model an international product launch.
• Ethics and sustainability practices.
• Project management techniques.
• Adobe Creative Suite for Business, graphic and web design.
• Business-to-business marketing.
• Prepare a comprehensive marketing plan for an external business start-up..

Specialize in the creative or business stream, experience working with real-world clients and join the ranks of award-winning alumni.

Program Highlights:-

• Program is well-recognized by industry professionals locally and nationally.
• Specialize after first year in a creative or business stream.
• Interview industry professionals, tour agencies, participate in mock interviews and build your portfolio.

What you'll learn:-

• A solid foundation in integrated marketing communications including advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing and public relations.
• Art direction, copywriting, layout design, basics of photography and graphic design, and idea generation techniques.
• Account and project management, media buying and placement, and the strategy behind ad campaigns.
• How to professionally present materials to real clients.
• An understanding of Adobe Creative Suite for photo editing, layout design, and video editing and effects.
• Grads from our program can easily find work in advertising agencies of all sizes. You’ll find Mohawk Advertising and Marketing Communications Management grads working in Media Planning and Media Buying, Account Management, Project Management, Print Production, Studio production and assembly, and in Creative Departments as Art Directors and Copywriters.

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Develop industry leading knowledge, skills, methods and behaviours that are required in the dynamic career path of Protection, Security and Investigation.

Program Highlights

• Learn from protection, security and investigation industry professionals.
• Participate in industry workshops, seminars and/or obtain certificates and licenses specific to your own career goals to prepare for employment.

What you'll learn

• Complete the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services required curriculum to become eligibility to write the security guard test and apply for licensing. (Optional provincial private investigator curriculum and test eligibility also offered).
• Explore techniques relevant to physical and cyber security risks and challenges.
• Understand the steps in various forms of investigations.
• Develop health, fitness and stress reduction skills relevant to emergency service careers.

Experience the rewarding challenges of operating and maintaining of facility equipment related to steam and power generation.

This program is accredited Power (Operating) Engineer by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), providing an opportunity for reduced operator time towards certification.

Gain the academic and practical experiences necessary to succeed as a Power Engineer, from real-life experiences taught by certified Operating Engineers.

There is a high demand for operating engineers at all levels and 4th Class Power Engineers may decide to pursue higher certification, up to and including, 1st Class.

What you'll learn

• Explore the use of steam and hot water boilers, air compressors, refrigeration, air conditioning, and auxiliary equipment.
• Understand the use of prime movers, turbines, and co-generation processes. 
• Importance of electrotechnology, instrumentation, combustion and the environmental impacts in a steam plant.
• Prepare for the Technical Standards and Safety Authority 4th Class Power Operating Engineering exams, both 4A and 4B.
• View the Exceptions Calendar for start dates and semester break information.

Explore opportunities in the service and maintenance of gas, propane and oil-fired technology.

Program Highlights

• Accredited by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA).
• Complete your training in one year.  
• Upon successful completion of each semester, you are eligible to write the Gas and Oil Burner Technician Provincial Fuel Certifications. You may write the examinations without acquiring additional workplace experience.

What you'll learn

• Fundamentals of home heating appliances that use fuel oil or natural gas.
• Experience the challenges in the service and maintenance of gas, propane, oil fired burners, furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters.
• Understand fuel delivery systems, set up and adjust combustion efficiencies, size ventilation systems and combustion air requirements. 
• Enjoy a practical lab to experience troubleshooting, combustion, electrical, fabricating piping systems and other related aspects.  
• The first semester prepares participants for testing and certification by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority as an Oil Burner Technician 3 (OBT 3) and a Gas Technician 3 (G3); providing eligibility on successful completion to write the Oil Burner Technician 2 (OBT 2) and Gas Technician 2 (G2) examination in the later part of the second semester. 
• Optional training includes fluorocarbon refrigerant, Ozone Layer Protection Awareness Certification, Gastite and IPEX certification training.

View the Exceptions Calendar for start dates and semester break information.

Learn the latest tools, techniques, and mindset that will prepare you for a fulfilling career as a project manager.

Program Highlights

• Study in a field that is both highly sought after and relevant to today’s business problems and opportunities. ?
• Learn from industry-experienced professionals. ?
• Considered the cornerstone in many organizations, Project Managers are highly sought after in a wide range of industries. ?
• This program addresses emerging trends in project management through courses in Agile project management ?
• Earn micro-badges in Process Mapping and Analytics with the Mohawk/IBM partnership ?
• Upon completion of the first semester of the program, you’ll be eligible to write the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification (an entry-level designation offered by the Project Management Institute, PMI). 

What you'll learn

• Use a variety of project management techniques, skills, and knowledge to support improved business outcomes. 
• Develop strategies to bridge the gap between business needs and the desired outcome using appropriate project management tools, techniques, and mindset. 
• Assess approaches to solving business problems using established evidence-based decision-making techniques. Understand what the project performance data that you are collecting is telling you and how to guide projects to successful completion. 
• Use a project management approach to communicate technical and business information to a variety of stakeholders. 
• This is a BYOD (Bring your own device) program. See Laptop Requirements under Additional Information.

Experience the full animation process of character performance stories with a focus on creating finished animation productions.

Program Highlights

• Taught by industry professionals.
• Bring stories and characters to life through cinematic animation.

What you'll learn

• Industry standard hardware and software.
• Transferable skills to entertainment, gaming, virtual reality (VR), commercial and industrial productions.
• Develop real-world industry production work practices.
• Business of art for profit.
• Pre-production skills:
  • Writing skills to develop character and story structure.
  • Figure drawing to develop strong drawing skills.
  • Traditional drawing skills used for visual design of environments, characters, storyboards/animatics.
• Production skills:
  • Laptop computer skills for digital construction, rigging and animating characters.
  • Construction of props and environments with texture and lighting to complete the scene.
  • Camera, rendering and editing techniques to create a finished production.

Work in this quickly evolving industry by developing essential skills in still photography and video through lectures, shoots and critiques.

Program Highlights

• With a focus on both still and motion, you will be trained to meet the needs of the changing photography industry.
• Develop a critical eye and become an effective content creator. 
• Establish connections within the photography community.
• Opportunities to submit work to award shows.

What you'll learn

• Professional camera skills in both still and video.
• How to produce creative and innovative photographic presentations using traditional and electronic formats.
• Operate industry standard equipment in the studio and on location.
• Latest editing techniques of photographic content in both still and video using the most up-to-date digital software.
• Ethics and issues and how they apply to the industry and the business of photography.
• Prepare a portfolio and a business plan