The UFV Automation and Robotics Technician diploma is designed to build on the knowledge you gained in the Electronics Technician Certificate program at UFV or elsewhere. When you graduate from UFV's Automation and Robotics Technician program, you will have the skills and confidence to build, maintain, calibrate and integrate automation and control systems. You can apply your training in a wide variety of sectors including agriculture, industrial manufacturing, and the oil and gas industry.
Sample topics include:
- Technical drafting and AutoCAD applications
- Hydraulic and pneumatic control systems
- Microprocessors/microcontrollers and data acquisition
- Project management and occupational organization
- Programmable logic controllers
- Wiring, motors, and actuators
- Control systems, including hands-on introduction to agricultural and manufacturing control systems
- Automation and robotics project
View course descriptions in the academic calendar
Note: Graduates of this program will be eligible to write the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia's Professional Practice and Ethics Examination. For fees and schedule related to this examination, please view information on the ASTTBC website.
Course Details | Credits |
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Fall Semester | |
ELTR 201 Hydraulics & Pneumatics | 3 |
ELTR 201 Lab | |
ELTR 202 Microcontrollers (l) | 5 |
ELTR 202 Lab | |
ELTR 211 Programmable Logic Controllers | 3 |
ELTR 211 Lab | |
ELTR 220 Statistics for Electronics | 3 |
ELTR 220 Lab | |
ELTR 230 Electrical Machines | 3 |
ELTR 230 Lab | |
Winter Semester | |
ELTR 214 Control Systems & Sensors | 5 |
ELTR 214 - Lab | |
ELTR 216 - Automation & Robotics Project | 3 |
ELTR 252 - Microcontrollers (ll) | 3 |
ELTR 252 - Lab | |
ELTR 261 - Programmable Logic Controllers | 3 |
ELTR 261 - Lab | |
TOTAL | 31 |