Disciplines

CCTT maintains national competency standards for technicians and technologists in 14 applied science and engineering technology disciplines. For more information about the responsibilities, education requirements and aptitudes for technicians and technologists, please visit HRDC’s National Occupational Classification.

Bioscience

  • Agriculture
  • Food processing
  • Drug processing
  • Fish and wildlife
  • Fisheries
  • Air, water and land resources
  • Landscape architecture pollution control

Building

  • Construction/building
  • Architectural
  • Naval architecture

Chemical

  • Applied chemistry
  • Industrial chemistry
  • Polymers (plastics)
  • Industrial hygiene
  • Organic chemistry (gas and petroleum)
  • Corrosion and electrochemistry
  • Environment and waste management
  • Process instrumentation

Civil

  • Structural
  • Transportation
  • Fire protection
  • Urban and regional planning
  • Environmental resources
  • Geotechnical
  • Architectural
  • Landscape
  • Marine

Electrical

  • Electrical machinery design
  • Power and distribution
  • Industrial electrical controls
  • Physics

Electronics

  • Electromechanical
  • Telecommunications
  • Computer
  • Bio-medical electronics
  • Broadcast
  • Audio-acoustics

Forestry

  • Wood products
  • Pulp and paper

Geomatics

  • Geodesy
  • Cadastral
  • Photogrammetry
  • Geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Remote sensing

Industrial

  • Industrial controls
  • Industrial engineering
  • Industrial management
  • Quality control
  • Computer applications
  • Loss prevention
  • Energy systems
  • Fire protection
  • Industrial chemistry
  • Industrial hygiene

Information Technology

  • details

Instrumentation

  • Industrial controls
  • Nuclear power control
  • Design
  • Avionics

Mechanical

  • Mechanical engineering
  • Design
  • Manufacturing
  • HVAC and refrigeration
  • Marine fluid power
  • Textiles
  • Mobile equipment
  • Motive power
  • Aeronautical
  • Aerospace

Mining

  • Extractive
  • Physical
  • Mining
  • Welding
  • Geological
  • Geophysical
  • Resource planning

Petroleum

  • Resource planning
  • Petroleum
  • Gas
  • Exploration
  • Production
  • Processing