Diploma in Environmental Technician

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

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.

Program Highlights

• Learn the basics from a range of design specialities including photography, animation, graphic design and print.
• Work on both traditional illustration and digital design projects.
• Get prepared to transition from high school or work to a college level diploma program by building your art and design skills.

What you'll learn

• Examine traditional art, digital arts, applied design and communications.
• Principles of the art and design workflow.
• Create traditional and digital projects to start your visual arts and graphic design portfolio.
• Plan, create, implement and present visual communications in a variety of media.
• Introduction to design, idea development research and presentation technology.
• Basic skills in drawing, colour theory, printing technology and still photography.
• How digital concepts and designs transform into a finished print product.

Supply Chain Management
Learn the fundamentals of supply chain and advance your skill set in this complex and fast-paced business environment.

Program Highlights

• Partnership with Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority.
• Program is offered in the Golden Horseshoe, home to the largest port in Ontario, the Welland Canal and the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.
• Build a capstone project that supports industry challenges.

What you'll learn

• How companies build competitive advantages using a supply chain.
• The processes and requirements to acquire goods and services.
• How functional areas within an organization interact to design, make, buy and deliver goods and services for consumers.
• Examine supply chain within the goods and services sectors to help companies build a competitive advantage.
• Classroom instruction using real supply chain examples

International Business Management
This graduate program is designed to provide, in 8 months, 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

Program Highlights
This program is a combination of in-class facilitated discussions, and practical hands-on experiences offered through Mohawk College’s Centre for Entrepreneurship including mentorship, speaker series, and the opportunity to participate in a live Pitch competition.

What you'll learn

• Learn to effectively manage a small business throughout the 5 stages of small business growth.
• Learn the fundamentals of operating a lean, agile business that can respond to external factors forcing change.
• Graduate with a comprehensive business plan that gives you a head start in obtaining funding and launching your own business.

Learn the fundamentals of supply chain and advance your skill set in this complex and fast-paced business environment.

Program Highlights

• Partnership with Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority.
• Program is offered in the Golden Horseshoe, home to the largest port in Ontario, the Welland Canal and the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport.
• Build a capstone project that supports industry challenges.

What you'll learn

• How companies build competitive advantages using a supply chain.
• The processes and requirements to acquire goods and services.
• How functional areas within an organization interact to design, make, buy and deliver goods and services for consumers.
• Examine supply chain within the goods and services sectors to help companies build a competitive advantage.
• Classroom instruction using real supply chain examples.

Program Highlights 

• Strong foundational program in biotechnology with exposure to options in the health field.
• Graduates are ready for careers in many areas of biotechnology.

What you'll learn

• Fundamentals of biotechnology, microbiology, pharmacology, genetics, bioinformatics and clinical testing associated with the health sector.
• Explore scientific methods and experimental techniques in accordance with accepted principles of quality assurance and manufacturing in the biotech industry.
• Prepare for a future career working in one of the most rapidly expanding fields in Canada.
• How to perform tasks in the following areas:
  • DNA analysis using electrophoresis, and PCR (polymerase chain reaction)
  • Protein analysis using electrophoresis, blotting and chromatography
  • Micropipetting, extractions, titrations, centrifugation and pH measurements using GLP (good laboratory practices)
  • Instrumentation including spectrometry
  • Basic techniques in microbiology

Experiential Learning

• How you’ll gain skills
  • Extensive hands-on laboratory practice.
  • Gain valuable experience during co-op work terms.
  • To learn more, please visit the Centre for Experiential Learning.

Co-op Format

The Preparatory Music program is designed to provide the foundation for successful advanced studies in music.

Students successfully completing our preparatory music program have repeatedly demonstrated greater success in their future studies in our Applied Music program, and other music programs across North America. Several successful musicians and even faculty members at Colleges and Universities across North America are graduates of our preparatory music program.

What you'll learn

• Develop strong basic knowledge of music theory.
• Develop ear-training foundations.
• Keyboard skills and improvisation.  
• Social and historical context in music.   
• Music technology and recording.
• Develop your instrumental/vocal skills on an instrument of your choosing.
• Basic improvisational skills on an instrument of your choosing.

Cyber Security Analytics
Protect the digital systems of today and beyond. Graduate with the essential skills for cyber threat detection and mitigation. Combine experiential learning in our cyber labs with independent online learning.

Program Highlights

• Design cyber security solutions to protect business resources.
• Create best practices in protecting mobile devices, smart homes and Industry 4.0 factories from cyber attacks.
• Participate in simulation labs where you will defend against cyber attacks.
• Engage in hands on experiential learning in our state of the art cyber labs facilitated by our expert faculty
• Study using extensive online learning and night classes to fit your busy schedule

What you'll learn

• Develop, implement and evaluate cyber security strategies and solutions for various operating systems, networks, application software, and packages.
• Respond to the cyber security needs of internal stakeholders.
• Recommend processes and procedures for maintenance and deployment of cyber security solutions.
• Design and implement cyber security solutions in compliance with current security policies, ethical standards, and industry regulations.
• Design and implement project management principles throughout the organization’s information security processes.
• Risk mitigation and auditing of information systems.
• Develop and deliver appropriate internal cyber security training.
• Communicate security policies, audit results and related documentation to any level of the organization.
• Monitor and analyze various attackers’ tactics, strategies and techniques to design vulnerability assessment procedures. 
• Implement vulnerability assessment procedures to find and solve existing security issues in a network.

Project Management
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.

Recommend solutions to support organizational change through comprehensive analysis of business and enterprise need.

Program Highlights

• Apply your learning through real-world, experiential learning opportunities with community partners from a variety of industries.
• Attain entry-level Certified Business Analysis credential (e-CBA) through IIBA.
• Complete Lean 6 Sigma Yellow Belt
• Achieve micro-badges in Process Mapping and Analytics with the Mohawk/IBM partnership.
• Courses are being delivered remotely with a mix of self-directed online learning and scheduled online classes where we meet face-to-face via Zoom.
• Build your professional brand by participating in workshops and industry networking opportunities.

What you'll learn

• Use a variety of business analysis techniques, skills and knowledge to support new or improved innovative business processes.
• Develop and document business processes and business models according to established business analysis practices, timelines and project goals.
• Develop strategies to bridge gaps between requirements and existing systems using appropriate business analysis techniques and documentation to support change to a business system.
• Assess solutions to business improvements using established benchmarks and evidence-based decision-making techniques.
• Use a project management approach to communicate technical and business information to a variety of stakeholders.

Gain specialized knowledge in data analytics to become a skilled data professional, and an essential contributor to business decision-making processes.

Program Highlights

• Executive course delivery model.
• Experiential learning with real data sets in an Analytics Lab.
• Applied skills development with industry-standard techniques and software.
• Potential to work with real businesses using their data.
• Program is open to both domestic and international students.
• Work on individual and team-based projects.
• Multidisciplinary education applicable to many industries.
• Opportunity to compete in a case competition.
• Computer-based exercises and training.
• Case studies and competition.
• Face-to-face workshops and industry networking.

What you'll learn

• Analyze and interpret digital information.
• Case study problem solving and analysis.
• Understand key analytical, modeling, statistical and programming tools.
• Use of business intelligence and data analytics software with a focus on data identification, consolidation, communication, reporting, manipulation and trending.
• Management techniques for data analytics projects.
• Presentation and communication skills.
• How to become a Certified Analytics Professional.