Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security Analytics & Analytics for Business Decision Making

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

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.

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.

Co-operative Education: Co-op integrates relevant work experience with your academic studies giving you an edge on the competition following graduation. Students must maintain an overall 70% GPA per semester in order to maintain co-op status and have no more than one failed or withdrawn course.

Work with real clients to gain valuable skills that will prepare you for a role in the expanding visual communications industry.

Program Highlights

• Work on real-world projects with actual clients.
• Attain your Avid Learning Partner – Media Composer Certification.
• Produce sports content with Ontario Colleges Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, and Ontario Hockey League partners.

What you'll learn

• Content creation and distribution for traditional and new media platforms.
• Sport and event production skills with professional HD mobile facilities.
• Camera, lighting and sound techniques for location production.
• Live and scripted studio production operations.
• Production management and direction.
• Edit video, sound and graphics.

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.

Develop foundational skills, and learn best practices essential to the heating, refrigeration and air conditioning industry.

Program Highlights

• Gain hands-on experience building, wiring, and troubleshooting a refrigeration system
• First semester prepares participants for provincial testing by the TSSA for Gas Technician 3 (G3) certification.
• Accredited by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
• Optional training includes Gastite and IPEX Certification, at no additional cost
• Optional training also includes Working at Heights and Ozone Depletion Prevention, offered at discounted rates

What you'll learn
Foundational skills and best practices essential to the heating, refrigeration and air conditioning industry including:

• Safe operation of tools and equipment
• Electrical wiring
• Piping, soldering, and brazing
• Equipment installation, commissioning, troubleshooting and servicing

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.

International Business Management 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

Digital Health program provides extensive hands-on learning opportunities in business, health and technology in our state-of-the-art labs for the rapidly growing and critical field of digital health.

Program Highlights

• This program is designed for students with a prior credential in the fields of health, business or technology. 
• Design digital health solutions to improve patient care. 
• Create best practices in administering digital health solutions while protecting patient safety and privacy. 
• Participate in simulation labs where you will remotely monitor patients using digital health devices. 
• Engage in hands-on experiential learning in our state of the art labs facilitated by our expert faculty 
• Develop a comprehensive applied research project to address a current challenge in the digital health field.  
• Study using extensive online learning to fit your busy schedule 

What you'll learn 

• Examine the Canadian health care system with an emphasis on the systems, supports, and tools used in the province of Ontario.  
• Develop, implement and evaluate digital health strategies and solutions that improve patient care. 
• Respond to the digital health needs of patients and internal stakeholders. 
• Recommend processes and procedures for maintenance and deployment of digital health solutions. 
• Design and implement digital health solutions in compliance with current security policies, provincial standards, and industry regulations. 
• Assess policies pertaining to privacy and security of personal health information and records including the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), and The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).  
• Apply data analytics principles to produce data visualizations and build predictive models of disease transmission and treatment outcomes in order to inform decision making. 
• Design and recommend telehealth and virtual care systems for safe and efficient remote patient monitoring and interactions. 
• Evaluate the use of digital health technologies for self-care and remote care. 

Program Highlights

• Complete 600 hours of supervised field placement.
• Advocate for and get involved in social justice opportunities and become an anti-oppressive practitioner
• Meet like-minded people and network with current professionals.

What you'll learn

• Current theories, models and interventions used in social service agencies to build healthy, positive relationships and connections within communities.
• Value of self-reflection and how to engage in critical self-awareness to increase your ability to help others and respect the uniqueness and dignity of all people.
• Develop core values of helping others such as the right to choose, the right to equality, justice and access to services.
• Acquire helping skills such as interviewing, assessing the needs of others, working effectively with groups and assisting communities to change.
• Understand how to document and work within legal, ethical and professional frameworks.

Electrical energy is the backbone of the world today and everyone relies on the safe generation, transmission, distribution and protection of this energy. Hydro utilities are in need of skilled technologists that have a strong foundation of modern electrical energy and who can help the industry move forward into the smart energy efficient digital age.

Program Highlights

• Benefit from hands-on learning in the Caroline Street Substation, located in downtown Hamilton.
• Gain access to a real-world application of Energy Systems labs in The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation, the new net zero building at Fennell Campus that is the first of its kind in Ontario.
• Experience applied research in power, solar, wind energy using the state-of-the-art smart grid/microgrid at the Stoney Creek Energy Research Centre.

What you'll learn

• Gain integrated skill sets that will position you well for a variety of employment opportunities tied to various electrical energy systems.
• Study sustainability topics including clean energy sources such as wind, solar/photovoltaic, solar thermal and hybrid electric technologies and strategies for conservation and management of clean energy supported by microgrids and distributed energy systems.
• Experience a unique program introducing a multi-disciplinary approach that focuses on the generation, capture, storage, and distribution of energy and their integration

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.

Program Highlights

• Co-op option offers a full year of work term placement (three consecutive four-month placements).
• 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 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.