Electronics Engineering Technician - Industrial Controls | Diploma / certificate | Engineering & Technology | On Campus | 12 months | Fanshawe College | Canada

Graduates of the Electronics Engineering Technician - Industrial Controls program will play a key role in the world of Technology with the in-depth knowledge gained in this exciting, fast-paced program. Automation is used in virtually every industry with the demand for trained graduates always increasing. Graduates will study a wide range of automation topics and have a thorough understanding of electricity and electronics as applied to automation and system controls. Electronic control systems can be found in automated factories, building environmental systems and processors of bulk materials such as dairies, refineries etc. Students will study motor controls, industrial sensors, automation theory and digital based control systems. Graduates will also have a working knowledge of pneumatic and electropneumatic control systems. They will be able to program, install and troubleshoot programmable Logic controllers (PLC's) and will have exposure to a working robot in an actual industrial workcell setting.