Mechanical Techniques
- Intensive, short-term
- Tailored to our local job market
- Designed to make you employment ready
- Eligible for Service Canada funding
- The best in workforce development.
Program Length:
One-year Ontario College Certificate
Career Opportunities:
Industry needs people who can keep the equipment running smoothly. Graduates are employed as industrial mechanics, welders, and manufacturing sector maintenance technicians. Graduates are prepared to apprentice as a millwright or machinist.
Program Description:
Upon completion of the program, the student will be entitled to write the provincial test for an exemption from “Level 1” of the in-school portion of the Industrial Mechanics apprenticeship.
The program is based on practical, hands-on shop work backed up by theory. Shop work includes welding, machine tools, and maintenance procedures. Special emphasis is placed on the organizational and diagnostic aspects of the trade. Graduates have the foundation to assume roles in the planning and supervision of maintenance work in industries of all kinds.
Admission Requirements:
- Required academic preparation
- OSSD/OSSGD or equivalent with courses at the general, advanced, (C), (U), (M) or (O) level
- mature applicant
Recommended academic preparation:
Welding and machine shop experience are highly recommended.
MECHANICAL TECHNIQUES CURRICULUM:
FIRST YEAR
Semester One
- COMP 1003 Computer Applications 1
- ELEC 1003 Electrical Fundamentals
- MANU 1000 Machine Tools 1
- MANU 1003 Welding Theory 1
- MANU 1006 Fluid Power 1
- MANU 1009 Blueprint Reading 1
- MECH 1000 Maintenance Theory 1
- MECH 1001 Machine Maintenance 1
- MECH 1002 Welding 1
Semester Two
- COMP 1008 Computer Applications 2
- ELEC 1004 Electrical Fundamentals 2
- MANU 1008 Fluid Power 2
- MECH 1003 Blueprint Reading 2
- MECH 1004 Machine Tools 2
- MECH 1005 Maintenance Theory 2
- MECH 1006 Machine Maintenance 2
- MECH 1007 Welding 2
- MECH 1008 Welding Theory 2
Direct Contact: John Poste (613) 969-1913 ext. 2494