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Overview
In industrial settings, precision and control are everything: monitoring fluid systems, enhancing electrical circuits, or ensuring seamless automation require technicians with the knowledge and confidence to maintain, monitor, and optimize industrial instrumentation systems. This course gives you the expertise to understand, operate, and troubleshoot the systems that keep industries running smoothly.
Led by industry experts, you’ll explore physics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics while gaining practical knowledge of electrical circuits, control systems, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). You’ll learn how industrial instruments measure pressure, temperature, flow, and level and then apply that knowledge to real-world industrial processes like boiler water level control, wastewater treatment, and chemical reactor monitoring.
Whether you’re pivoting into industrial automation or strengthening your current expertise, this course equips you with the technical skills and industry knowledge to succeed in process industries, manufacturing, energy, and beyond.
This course is ideal if you:
- want a competitive edge in industrial automation, measurement, and control systems
- are pursuing a career in high-demand industries like manufacturing, oil and gas, energy, or water treatment
- you need hands-on experience with real-world tools, including industrial measurement systems, electrical circuits, and PLCs
- are responsible for optimizing processes and want to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and safety in industrial operations.
To be successful in this course, we recommend you have a minimum of 50% in Grade 12 Math, Physics and/or Chemistry.
Upon successful completion of this course, you'll be able to:
- discuss the theory of calculus
- distinguish units of measurement, different forms of energy and work that are necessary for objects to change state
- define Boyle’s, Charle’s, and Loule’s laws
- understand the basics of the study of heat, temperature, and their associated effects in physical systems
- define the mechanics of fluid motion and fluid properties
- discuss the theory of Chemistry
- describe the purpose of electrons and what causes electrons to move in a material as well as the components of electrical circuits and the different types of circuits
- discuss the theory of alternating current
- discuss various instrumentation systems in industrial instrumentation
- discuss various instrument connections to their processes describe the various switches involved in process measurement understand discrete control elements
- discuss various uses of relay control systems discuss various uses of Programmable Logic Controllers
- discuss various uses of Programmable Logic Controllers and programming
- describe 4 to 20 mA current signals and how it relates to instrumentation.
To request a course outline, contact ConEdAdvising@sait.ca.
Upcoming dates
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Registration for this course closes seven days prior to the start date.
After you've completed this course
Upon successful completion of this non-credit course, you can self-print your unofficial completion document from your Continuing Education student account.
Costs
Technology
To be successful in this course, you’ll need:
- Access to your own computer or laptop with standard hardware/software requirements.
- Internet access
Financial support
Financial opportunities are available to help pay for your course fees. Learn more about how to reduce your education or training costs with available awards, bursaries, loans and grants including the Canada Alberta Job Grant.
Applicable certificates
This course applies to the following certificate programs:
- Certification type
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Certificate of Achievement
Train your team
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