Diploma in Electronics Engineering Technician

at Niagara College - Welland Campus Canada

Do you have a passion for capturing stories as they unfold from behind the scenes and enjoy the freedom of creative expression?
As a Television Production graduate, you are well-equipped to produce a wide variety of broadcast coverage for traditional, online and streaming outlets.

Program Highlights:

• Introduction to the radio, television, and film industries including hands-on learning opportunities offered in-studio and on-location and single and multi-camera training using the latest broadcast equipment.
• Facilities include a radio production training lab, fully HD television studio, digital radio broadcast studio and a $1-million high-definition (HD) production truck.
• LIVE weekly TV magazine show broadcasted and streamed in conjunction with Television Presentation students.
• Immersive seven-week broadcast industry field placement.
• High graduate employment rate working in sports, news and entertainment organizations across Canada.
• Students apply to Broadcasting – Radio, Television and Film and select a program concentration during the first year of the program.

Do you have a strong background in math and science and want to explore a career creating advanced equipment using light?
As a Photonics Engineering Technician graduate you will possess the skills to build, install, test and maintain optical or fibre-optic equipment, including lasers, to create innovative devices for use in the manufacturing, medicine, and telecommunications industries.

Program Highlights:

• Niagara College offers Ontario’s only Photonics Engineering Technician program, with graduates in high demand.
• Hands-on experiential learning in Canada’s largest undergraduate photonic labs and teaching clean-room facility.
• Gain advanced skills in precision optics, electro-optics, fibre-optics and laser technologies.
• Graduates may opt for direct workforce entry or complete Niagara College’s Photonics Engineering Technology program with an additional year of study.

Do you have a desire to make a difference in your community and an interest in serving and protecting the public by upholding the law?
As a Police Foundations graduate you will play an active role in the law enforcement system, ensuring public safety by maintaining law and order: protecting members of the public and their property; and preventing, detecting and investigating crime.

Program Highlights:

• Reality-based curriculum taught by former police officers with extensive investigative experience.
• Gain practical, in-field experience via volunteer opportunities with municipal police services and local service agencies.
• Hands-on experiential learning in the Justice Studies Simulation Lab.
• Students who successfully complete first year and the First Aid course are eligible to write the Ontario Security Guard licensing exam.

Do you enjoy helping people and have an interest in a community service career, but haven’t decided on a specialty?
As a Pre-Community Services graduate, you have determined your career goal and are well-prepared for academic success in postsecondary community service programs at Niagara College.

Program Highlights:

• Program is designed to meet individual needs and facilitate the transition to post-secondary education.
• Benefit from individual educational support and planning with assistance from an academic student advisor.
• Graduates may be eligible to receive limited transfer credits based on their chosen post-secondary program.

Do you want to turn your interest in video games into a career and move your gaming ideas from concept to reality?
As a game developer you will be a leader of innovation in the digital game and interactive media industry.

Program Highlights:

• Explore, experience and develop skills in all major game development areas including; design, art, programming and production.
• Hundreds of hours of hands-on, applied learning in state-of-the-art computer labs with dual full HD monitors.
• Curriculum focused on game programming and scripting, digital art production techniques, game design principles and game production practices.
• Full access to industry leading programming, art, design and production game development tools.
• Practical individual and collaborative game development experience, culminating in a team project to conceive, design, develop and showcase an original game.

Do you thrive on finding solutions to computer hardware challenges and want to turn your passion into a rewarding career?
As a Computer Engineering Technician graduate your ability to quickly and effectively troubleshoot and implement computer system solutions will put you in high demand by employers in multiple sectors and industries.

Program Highlights:

• Establish broad knowledge and understanding in the latest networking, software, hardware and programming applications.
• Develop market-ready computer problem-solving skills that translate across many industries.
• Gain extensive hardware troubleshooting skills in computer systems support, electronics, digital, microprocessor technology and data communications.
• Qualified graduates may apply for Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) certification.

This program builds upon the foundation of mental health begun in pre-registration health care disciplines. It explores current issues and trends in mental health in Canada, current best practices in nursing and other health care professions for providing optimal care to clients with diverse mental health disorders across the lifespan, legal and ethical aspects of mental health care and the interdisciplinary approach to health care.

Program Highlights:

• Access to the Co-Curricular Record program, in which individuals gain recognition for student engagement, leadership and co-curricular activities pursued outside of the classroom.
• Experiential learning with standardized patients.
• Access to international student specific advisement and transition supports through the International Division

Are you interested in a dynamic career path that enables you to have a meaningful impact on the safety and security of Canada and Canadians both domestically and abroad?
As a graduate of the Protection, Security and Investigation (Customs Border Services) program, you will be skilled at threat detection, targeting and investigating potential illegal activity in Canada, at Canada’s Ports of Entry, as well as outside the country.

Program Highlights

• Unprecedented job growth as a result of increased threats to public safety.
• Curriculum taught by former police officers with extensive investigative experience.
• Gain practical, in-field experience via volunteer opportunities with local service agencies.
• Hands-on experiential learning via the Justice Studies Simulation Lab.
• Students who successfully complete first year and the First Aid course are eligible to write the Ontario Security Guard licensing exam.

Are you a people person seeking a career where you can blend your aptitude for business with your interest in oral health care?
As a Dental Office Administration graduate you will oversee the daily operations of a dental office including patient care records, health insurance company claims, and appointment scheduling.

Program Highlights:

• Applied learning opportunities through a real-world teaching environment located at Niagara College’s new, state-of-the-art, fully operational dental clinic.
• Over 140 hours of hands-on field placement experience at a dental office.
• Excellent program reputation among community employers.
• Graduates are eligible to write the certification examination for dental receptionists through the Ontario Dental Assistants Association.

Do you have a passion for education and the importance of fostering development in the early years?
As an early childhood educator, you will support early learning in a wide variety of educational programs and centres.

Program Highlights:

• Over 600 hours of practical field placement experience completely concurrently with course work.
• The opportunity to graduate with three additional certificates: Hanen Learning Language and Loving It; Quality Child Care Niagara; Red Cross Anti-Bullying Certificate.
• Diverse opportunities for employment including School Boards and Licenced Early Year environments.
• Program meets the registration requirements for the College of Early Educators.
• International employment/field placement partnership with Lerthah School in Thailand.