Automated Controls Installation and Maintenance Advanced Certificate - Part-Time is a certificate in Electrical Engineering programme taught at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 7 years, delivered fully online. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
This certificate extends skills gained through an electrical apprenticeship or through hands-on training and experience as an engineer. Delivery is split across lab and activity work, classroom instruction, and a smaller share of online learning. Covered topics include industrial communication and data acquisition, robotics, programmable logic controllers, renewable energy systems, and drafting. Graduates typically find work in mining, government, shipbuilding, railway, utility plants, manufacturing, pulp and paper mills, or oil and gas transport.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission is two-step. Step 1 is a Pre-Entry Assessment form reviewing the applicant's work experience against entrance requirements. Step 2 requires English Studies 12 at 50% or equivalent (BCIT's Category 3 band) or a pass on the BCIT English Trades Entry Assessment — Category 3 international scores are IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band under 5.0, TOEFL iBT 82 with no section under 19, PTE Academic 52 with no skill under 50, or Duolingo 105 with no integrated subscore under 80, per BCIT's institution-wide English Language Proficiency page — plus one of: Interprovincial Red Seal qualification as an electrician, an electrical engineering degree, an electrical technology diploma (power option), a robotics technology diploma, or an industrial instrumentation technology diploma. International credentials must be evaluated through ICES or an approved Canadian credential service, including a course-by-course evaluation and GPA calculation. A valid BCIT study permit is required before starting, and the program's own page states it does not qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit.
Application Details
Start Date:January, April and September
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
