Strategic Skills Programs in GTA

“Advanced Manufacturing & Design Technologies Centres for Brampton and Regional Manufacturers (Brampton)

Skills: advanced manufacturing
Project lead: Sheridan College
Sheridan College will open a new Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies at its Davis Campus in Brampton in 2005. The Centre will target skills shortage by offering a combination of apprenticeship, diploma and graduate certificate programs. It will also offer intensive industry training on technical, business and soft skill upgrading for industry employees.

Centre for Engineering Design and Rapid Manufacturing
(Toronto)

Skills: mechanical engineering, design, manufacturing, tool & die.
Project lead: Centennial College.
The goal of the program is to increase the numbers of full time technologists and technicians by 200 annually.

Integrated Manufacturing Centre (Oshawa)

Skills: advanced manufacturing and related management skills.
Project lead: Durham College & University of Ontario Institute of Technology
The IMC will provide unique working, industrial grade, flexible manufacturing facilities that will showcase advanced technologies and provide industry-relevant training to students in diploma and degree streams and for the re-skilling of workers.

Strategic Training in Nanotechnology, Fuel Cells and Smart Structures (Kingston, Toronto, Niagara Falls)

Skills: nanotechnology
Project leads: Queen’s University and Niagara College.
Designed to increase Ontario’s supply of materials engineers, scientists, technicians and technologists, the project will focus on industry-identified applications and project-based learning activities conducted at university and college labs. Emphasis will be placed on advanced materials and nanotechnologies in a broad base of engineering disciplines, specifically solid oxide fuel cell technologies, smart structures, electronics & photonics and manufacturing applications.”