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Welcome to a whole new level of avionics maintenance and management! Do you have what it takes to build and repair complex electronic navigation, guidance and communications systems, or repair the instrumentation and flight controls of an aircraft? By the time you’re done this program, you will! Watch your career take off as you grow to become an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME), or Avionics Maintenance Technician (AVT), or even an Aviation Inspector.
Accreditations: Transport Canada (TC) and the Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace (CCAA) pending.
Why this program?
The Aviation Technology - Avionics Maintenance & Management program is geared to the needs of the aircraft industry and our highly skilled faculty members and instructors are some of the best in the business. Not only do they bring years of industry experience and extensive technical expertise to the program, but they are deeply committed to your success, and to making this a highly desirable program.
In fact, aviation industry giant Bombardier named Centennial College as its trainer of choice in the manufacturing and maintenance of its aerospace products. As a graduate of this program, you are already at the front of the line and in a perfect position to begin your career working with industry leaders!
Partners and supporters of this program are members of Centennial College's advisory committees and participate as guest speakers and panelists, sharing their wealth of knowledge and expertise with students of the program. That means you will not only learn first-hand where your career can take you, but you will receive invaluable insight from those who have shaped the industry.
So, why this program? The Aviation Technology - Avionics Maintenance & Management program will give you the essential theoretical knowledge and the practical skills to apply that knowledge on real aircraft & aircraft systems, under the focused direction of industry-seasoned faculty and instructors. While also providing opportunities to absorb the wisdom of some of the most successful leaders in the industry. That’s 360° education designed for your success!
What can I expect?
The best way to learn a skill is hands-on. Here at the School of Transportation, you will have access to a variety of dedicated aviation labs and shops, including our large and impressive aircraft hangar, where you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of systems and aircraft. By the time you graduate from this program, you will be fully prepared for work as a bench technician in avionics-approved shops at a variety of aviation organizations.
You will learn the essential theory and broad base of knowledge for complex electronics and electrical systems related to the navigation, guidance, communications, instrumentation and flight controls of an aircraft. Working in labs, shops and the aircraft hangar, you will practice the tasks and skills associated with shop bench work and the testing, troubleshooting, repair, removal and installation of electrical, electronic and instrumentation systems. This program also gives you the opportunity to obtain additional business and management skills related to and required by the industry at large.
An aircraft maintenance engineer is responsible for the certification of aircraft electrical and electronic systems after the completion of maintenance, inspection, repair or replacement. The importance of that responsibility cannot be understated. To that end, this program will be comprehensive and will require you to be dedicated and focused throughout this learning process. Please make sure you are aware of the prerequisites for this program on our Admission Requirements section.
What do I have when I’m done?
Diploma
When you graduate from this program, you will have a coveted diploma from highly respected college, with the required knowledge and skills needed for a career in organizations that include general aviation, manufacturing, repair, overhaul, and airlines.
Accreditation
The Aviation Technician-Aircraft Maintenance and Management program is accredited by both the Federal Government Licensing body (Transport Canada) and the National Aviation Sector Council (the Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace, CCAA); and will have provided you with the basic training required to become a licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.
If you have met the accreditation standards, you will be exempt from having to write the TC technical examinations for issue of an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) Licence and will be granted 18 months experience credit toward the issue of an AME “E” rated licence. You will also be recognized as having met the basic training requirements for CCAA occupational trade certification as an AVT (avionics maintenance technician).
The passing grade for all technical courses is 60%. To be eligible for accreditation, you must meet the following mandatory grading, attendance, and practical performance requirements in all technical courses:
Degree credit
As a graduate, you may be eligible to participate in pathway programs with partnering institutions or articulated programs with select universities. These programs allow you to receive degree and academic credit for your work at Centennial College and apply that credit toward further study (eg. Technology Management degree.)
The Aviation Technician – Avionics Maintenance program is geared directly to the needs of the aircraft industry. Through theoretical and practical (hand-on) training students are prepared to begin a career in the aviation industry.
The program is structured to run in 7-week blocks, allowing students to concentrate their studies on a set number of courses within that time frame. At the end of the training block students complete their final test(s), have a 1-week break period and then move on to the next set of training courses.
The program is accredited by both the Federal Government Licensing body (Transport Canada) and the National Aviation Sector Council (the Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace); providing the basic training necessary to become a licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer.
To be eligible for program accreditation students must successful fulfill mandatory attendance, grading and practical task requirements in all technical courses.
Students that do not meet any/all of the accreditation criteria may be eligible to graduate from the program provided all requirements for graduation have been successfully fulfilled.
| Course Code | Course Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | ||
| ATAT-101 | Theory of Flight | |
| ATAT-102 | Aircraft Publications | |
| ATAT-104 | Metallurgy & Processes | |
| ATAT-107 | Intro to CARs, Human Factors & SMS | |
| ATAT-108 | Orientation & Pathways to Success, Pt 1 | |
| ATAT-110 | Applied Mathematics | |
| 1B | ||
| ATAT-103 | AME Standard Practices | |
| ATAT-105 | Basic Electricity - AC/DC | |
| ATAT-106 | Basic Tools & Hardware | |
| ATAT-109 | Orientation & Pathways to Success, Pt 2 | |
| COMM-160/161 | College Communication 1 | |
| GNED | General Education Elective | |
| Course Code | Course Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 2A | ||
| ATAC-201 | Circuit Control & Protection, Semiconductors | |
| ATAT-201 | Maintenance Records | |
| ATAV-202 | Piston Engines & Propellers | |
| ATAV-203 | Advanced AC/DC Theory | |
| MT-106 | CAD I/Blueprint Reading | |
| 2B | ||
| ATAV-204 | Aircraft Structures and Sheet Metal | |
| ATAV-205 | Intro to Avionics Systems | |
| ATAV-206 | ATA Systems 1 | |
| ATAV-207 | Turbine Engines | |
| 2C | ||
| ATAV-208 | Analog Theory | |
| ATAV-209 | Radio Theory | |
| ATAV-210 | CAD Programming | |
| Course Code | Course Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 3A | ||
| ATAV-301 | Electrical Systems Installation | |
| ATAV-302 | Logic Gates and Numbering Systems | |
| COMM-170/171 | College Communication 2 | |
| GNED | General Education Elective | |
| 3B | ||
| ATAT-310 | Non-technical Skills | |
| ATAT-603 | Airside Worker Safety and Security | |
| ATAV-303 | Avionics Systems Installation | |
| Course Code | Course Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 4A | ||
| ATAV-401 | Aerodynamics - Fixed and Rotary Wing | |
| ATAV-402 | Hydraulics and Landing Gear | |
| ATAV-403 | ATA Systems 2 | |
| ATAV-404 | Electrical Systems | |
| 4B | ||
| ATAC-401 | Aircraft Structures 2 and Composites | |
| ATAT-402 | Aviation Maintenance Planning | |
| ENGL-250 | Report Writing in a Technical Environment | |
| GNED-500 | Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social Action | |
| 4C | ||
| ATAV-405 | Navigation Systems | |
| ATAV-406 | Digital Application | |
| Course Code | Course Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 6A | ||
| ATAT-401 | Aviation Maintenance Planning | |
| ATAT-601 | Ethical Behaviour in the Workplace | |
| ATAT-700 | Canadian Aviation Regulations | |
| ATAV-602 | Auto Flight Control Systems | |
| ATAV-603 | Instrument Systems | |
| 6B | ||
| ATAT-602 | Aviation and Aerospace Management | |
| ATAT-604 | Business Skills | |
| ATAV-601 | Maintenance Procedures | |
| ATAV-604 | Aircraft Servicing | |
Air Canada, Kelowna Flight craft, Porter Airlines, Air Georgian, WestJet, Air Transat, Jazz, First Air, Bombardier, Magellan Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Messier Dowty, Transport Canada, IMP Group, Mid Canada Mod Centre, Kitchener Aero, Cascade Aerospace, Department of National Defense, Flight Safety Canada Aviation
Qualified graduates may be eligible to participate in pathway programs with partnering institutions. These pathway programs allow you to receive degree credit for learning obtained at Centennial College. Our partners include:
Centennial’s Aerospace and Aviation department working in partnership with Air Canada, Air Georgian, Bombardier and other industry organizations, provides eligible students with the opportunity to take part in both work integrated learning and job shadowing opportunities where and when available.
The program is accredited by both the Federal Government Licensing body (Transport Canada) and the National Aviation Sector Council (the Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace). Students that meet accreditation standards are:
To be eligible for accreditation students must meet mandatory grading, attendance and practical performance requirements in all technical courses, which include an absenteeism rate of less than five percent (of the total program hours), a 70% (B) grade in every course and successful completion of all mandatory practical tasks.
To register for the Aviation Technology - Avionics Maintenance & Management (#8313), you must have:
Due to the technical nature of the curriculum, you must be able to read, write and comprehend the English language at a level exceeding basic conversational English.
You will be required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (clear safety glasses, cotton coveralls and CSA approved safety boots/shoes) for all practical shop, lab and hangar activities.
You will be expected to invest extra time on study, mandatory project completion and exam preparation.
Training in this program may be scheduled between the hours of 7:30 am through 8:30 pm.
Due to Transport Canada accreditation requirements, the option for transfer credit is only applicable to certain General Education (COMM, GNED elective) courses in the Aviation Technology - Avionics Maintenance & Management program. Applicability and approval is subject to review.
Students are required to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (clear safety glasses, cotton coveralls and CSA approved safety boots/shoes) for all practical shop, lab and hangar activities.
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