Diploma in Energy Systems Engineering Technician (Fast Track)

at Centennial College - Progress Campus Canada

Centennial College's popular Computer Systems Technology - Networking program will focus on the latest in computer systems.

In this advanced diploma program's hands-on courses, you'll gain plenty of practical practice. You'll be delving inside computer hardware and learning the intricacies of operating systems, exploring up-to-date computer systems and network technology, working with computer/server and network technologies, figuring out how to administer and manage computer systems (Windows/Linux), converged networks (VoIP), wireless networks, network security and data centres/Cloud, and assembling and maintaining systems that serve to empower users in creative, business and communication activities.

With faculty members from the School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science maintaining a close watch on technology trends, this college computer program's lessons will reflect the ever-growing innovations of the digital revolution. This will ensure you'll be career-ready for jobs in Internet, intranet, extranet and telecoms technical support.

The Baking Skills program has been specifically designed to meet industry demands for professional bakers. Whether you aspire to work within a large company or want to pursue your own baking business, the fundamental baking skills you'll learn in this culinary arts program will get you there.

You'll hone the skills employers are looking for in Centennial College's baking and pastry labs, which include a one-of-a-kind commercial bake lab as well as a cafe, restaurant and event centre. From covering fine decorating and finishing skills to large quantity production techniques, this program will make you work-ready upon graduation. To further increase your employability, you'll leave the Baking Skills program with important industry certifications such as Smart Serve, Safe Food Handlers and CPR.

Program Highlights

• The Baking Skills program features the type of experiential learning opportunities that prepare you for a range of scenarios you may encounter in your career.
• Progress campus houses state-of-the-art live labs that include a lab specially designed for commercial baking, culinary labs, a restaurant, a cafe and an event centre.
• The realistic, practical experiences within the offering truly set you apart from the competition.
• Graduates from the Baking Skills program can transition directly into the second year of the Baking and Pastry Arts Management Program.

In an evolving world of data overload, businesses are searching to turn opportunities into actionable results. This program will provide you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and hands-on experiences to place you at the center of where statistical analysis meets business insights.

Learn to translate the promise of big data into meaningful information using industry-leading tools and techniques. You will have broad and in-depth training in the analysis of big data, statistical and predictive modeling, data management, visualization, and data storytelling. You will learn to solve complex business problems as well as how to present complex insights efficiently and effectively.

The Hospitality Skills program is crafted as a platform for you to develop the skills required to match the industry’s demand for qualified entry-level employees. In one year (two semesters), this program will set you up to master and apply a variety of practical skills and theoretical knowledge that will allow you the opportunity to work within the hospitality sector.

Centennial College's Hospitality and Tourism Administration program will prepare you for an industry that Tourism HR Canada projects will grow to 2.1 million jobs, exposing a labour and skills shortage in more than 400 job types in accommodation, food and beverage, transportation, entertainment and travel services. Ontario visitor spending in 2019, meanwhile, is projected to surpass $31 billion, supporting 188,000 businesses and 391,000 jobs.

In addition to that, tourism employs one in 10 people, generates 10 percent of global gross domestic product and is one of the fastest growing global industries. Canada even broke records for numbers of visitors in 2017 and 2018.

As the only three-year advanced diploma in hospitality and tourism in Ontario, since 1970 the program has seen its graduates become global industry leaders in diverse careers, from event experts and tour operators to destination marketers and hotel general managers. Many graduates also continue their education through enhanced mobility to leading universities.

Curriculum will uniquely combine in-depth, holistic academic study with hands-on experiential learning, culminating in a 14-week work-integrated learning experience. You'll also graduate work-ready with important industry certifications such as Smart Serve, Safe Food Handlers, TICO Travel Counsellor Certification and CPR.

By combining and building on the best and most innovative hospitality and tourism education, this advanced diploma will help you enter the industry with technical skills, industry-specific knowledge and business acumen to embark on an unlimited and accelerated journey of career success in global hospitality and tourism.

Human Resources involves developing policies, procedures and programs to ensure an organization has an adequate number of people with the right knowledge, skills and abilities to achieve its objectives. When HR is aligned with the strategic goals and objectives of an organization, it becomes a strategic partner in the management of the organization, ensuring the best pool of talent to pioneer, compete and be at the top of its field.
 
Centennial College’s unique approach incorporates current trends in human resources, the affirmation of diversity and human rights and the promotion of positive union and management relations. You will develop expertise in all major areas of human resources such as: Human Resource Planning, Staffing, Recruitment and Selection, Training and Development, Compensation, Employee and Labour Relations,  Occupational Health and Safety, Management Accounting, and Human Resource Management Systems.
 
The program emphasizes the ability to analyze and interpret financial and accounting information for decision-making purposes. Legal issues are covered from a proactive, rather than compliance, perspective. Finally, the use of integrated human resource systems software and computer skills to manage information and support decision-making is taught.
This unique Business School program will offer you the opportunity to acquire three designations:
 

•     CHRP™ designation from the Human Resources Professionals Association
•     CIM™ designation from the Canadian Institute of Management
•     PCP™ designation from the Canadian Payroll Association

The Business Administration, Leadership and Management program focuses on helping students identify and develop their leadership potential in management and leadership practices through industry and competitive analysis and by helping students to become confident in decision-making; resilient and adaptable when change is required, and along with the ability to develop their personal and social responsibilities to stakeholders. 

Students will enhance their ability to manage projects, find efficiencies, identify the best hires, and leverage their financial knowledge into smart, innovative and strategic business decisions. Through experiential learning and practical assignments that will simulate real business situations, they will focus on their growth as leaders and decision-makers. Experienced and knowledgeable professors will help students fine-tune their business expertise and new essential skills.

Additional benefits will include program opportunities for experiential learning through clubs and competitions, articulation agreements with various universities, and flexible learning options such as traditional classroom settings, blended and online offerings.

Program Highlights

• Leadership and Management courses ensure you gain comprehensive, value-added knowledge of all areas of business and management.
• The use of extensive case analyses, directed research and experiential learning prepares you for a smooth transition to the workplace.
• You expand your interactive and online skills with technology-supported learning.
• Small class environments give you ample opportunities to work on team projects that will stimulate your innovative thinking.
• This Business Administration program develops your skills portfolio as you become familiar with the management practices of leading global companies and organizations.
• You learn from a team of professors with strong academic backgrounds, deep subject matter expertise and extensive business and management experience.

Centennial College's Food Media graduate certificate program will bring together your passion for the food industry and media to provide you with the necessary skills to succeed as a food product creator, developer, presenter, advertiser and marketer. Through a focus on the entrepreneurial use of personalized branding and marketing, you'll gain the know-how to successfully advertise and market your own food product or service.

Innovative and interactive courses will teach you to identify your target market audience, design and deliver creative messages, and negotiate for the appropriate media product to achieve the desired communication and presentation results. Using these creative skills and food knowledge, you'll harness the power of the media to deliver messages to attract revenue-generating streams and opportunities.

Program Highlights

• Among the entrepreneurial opportunities you'll be able to identify and implement will be food image and brand specialist, freelance food writer, marketing specialist, food segment producer, and entertainment and lifestyle professional.
• You'll be able to find employment in both the public and private sectors, including with advertising and marketing communications media agencies, health care and educational institutions, not-for-profit organizations, newspapers and magazines, television and radio broadcasting companies, and other media-based industries such as out-of-home marketing communications and trade promotions.

If you enjoy getting your courtroom fix from TV shows, it’s time to put down the remote and join the action by attending the Court Support Services program.

This two-semester certificate program will prepare you to work with judges, lawyers, paralegals and the public, providing pre-court, in-session and post-court support. In this role you'll safeguard the functioning of the courtroom, and by extension, the judicial process.

During your time in Court Support Services, you'll participate in courtroom simulations and mock trials, working with real court equipment, court forms and court procedures. You'll gain the skills to professionally communicate with court staff, stakeholders and the judiciary, administer oaths, and maintain order and decorum in a court or tribunal.

The program's practicum component will provide you with an opportunity to shadow professionals in a real courtroom. Centennial's faculty and staff will work closely with you to maximize this shadowing experience, which will ensure that you acquire the essential skills to:

• Prepare exhibits
• Distribute court dockets
• Prepare court documents
• Test audio and recording equipment
• Set up, troubleshoot and monitor court video technology
• Arrange adjournment dates
• Coordinate and manage a jury panel

Centennial College's Mechanical Engineering Technology – Industrial program will cover designing hypothesis and practice in assembling and creating mechanical gear and items. 

The focal point of this propelled recognition designing project will be on guaranteeing you increase essential building and science aptitudes while including progressively specific subjects identifying with present-day assembling and generation forms. The Mechanical Engineering Technology – Industrial program's courses will likewise incorporate PC supported plan (CAD) and PC helped to produce (CAM) through AutoCAD, Inventor, Solid-Works and Simul8, which are generally utilized in the business. 

Two-semester individual ventures will consider commonsense involvement in structuring, building and testing a unique bit of hardware. The undertaking approach utilized in the offering will recreate genuine working environment assignments.

Program Highlights

• Through a 60-40 program balance, you gain experience in machine shop operation, tool design and computer numerical control programming.
• Industry-current software instruction in AutoCAD, Inventor and Mastercam is taught, as is state-of-the-art CAD/ CAM equipment.
• The campus from which the program is facilitated houses a new mechanical engineering lab that includes material properties, strength of materials, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and quality assurance testing equipment.