Power Engineering Technology Diploma

Thompson Rivers University

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In Kamloops (Canada)

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Level

    Advanced

  • Location

    Kamloops (Canada)

  • Duration

    34 Weeks

Become a certified 3rd class power engineer with a two-year diploma and perform an essential role in society.

Power engineers are responsible for keeping critical systems running, from lights and heating to compressors and refrigeration. If you like problem solving and understanding how things work, this could be career for you.

You will learn the details of power engineering, maintenance and operation in order to work in industrial and commercial workplaces, including oil and gas, mining, pulp and paper, food processing, agriculture, hospitals, cities, power plants, manufacturing and more.

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Kamloops (Canada)
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About this course

If you want to expand your career options, you can come back to TRU and apply the credits you earned toward related certificates, diplomas and degrees. For example, you can ladder to our Bachelor of Technology, which focuses on management and leadership.

You get hands-on experience in our comprehensive steam power training plant, which has of two 150lb steam boilers, steam turbine generator, condensers and auxiliary equipment. The boilers produce 10,000lbs of steam per hour, driving a 50kw steam turbine generator to produce heat and power utilized by the TRU campus.

You get hands-on experience with two types of gas-fired steam boilers: Watertube and Firetube.

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Subjects

  • Systems
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Power Engineering
  • Power Management

Course programme

What you learn in the classroom will be reinforced in the shop through practical exercises and scenarios. You not only will learn to operate and maintain pumps, compressors, generators and pressure vessels, you will learn to prepare, test and inspect equipment that is found in large facilities, buildings, industrial power plants, processing plants and thermal electric generating stations.

Our program follows the Standardized Power Engineers Examination Committee (SOPECC) material you will need to know in order to write the Technical Standards and Technical Safety BC exams—the same ones you will need to pass to receive your 4th and 3rd class power engineering certification.

Your first year covers everything you need to know to take the 4th class power engineer exams. It is the same material covered in our one-year certificate program, and if you already have 4th class certification from a provincial safety authority you will receive a credit for the first year and enter the second year of the program.

Your second year builds on everything you learned in first year and will prepare you for the 3rd class power engineer exams.

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