Acquire the skills and knowledge to become a member of civil engineering teams that are responsible for planning, costing, building, maintaining, and rehabilitating roads, bridges, buildings, water distribution systems, and pipelines. Courses are focused on applying professionalism towards drafting, surveying, construction methods, costing, quality control, inspections, and laboratory testing.

The College’s computer-aided drafting (CAD) laboratories provide you with practical, hands-on experience. You will also receive surveying training with electronic distance and angle measuring equipment that will be interfaced with coordinate geometry and drafting software. In addition, to meet the demand for structural steel detailers, you will learn automated structural detailing.

You will participate in a two-week field camp during the first part of May at the end of the second semester (SA approved safety boots mandatory). Attendance is compulsory to complete the program. Students are urged to let employers know that they are not available for summer employment until the course is officially completed.

Program Highlights

• 2 years – 4 semesters
• Industry-experienced faculty
• Hands-on experience in modernized lab
• Two-week field methods surveying course at the end of the second semester (first two weeks of May)
• Courses cover industry compliant CAD drafting, surveying, construction methods, estimating, quality control, inspections, materials testing, structural detailing, and hydraulics
• Gain extensive experience using computer-aided drafting (CAD) to meet industry compliant standards
• Graduates can seek membership with OACETT (Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists) to become certified as a C.Tech. (Certified Technician)

Career outcomes

• Consulting engineering firms
• Government departments
• Municipal engineering departments
• Construction firms

College/University Degree Opportunities

Graduates from this program may continue their studies at college/university and may receive credit for their prior College education.