Co-operative Education

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Career and Co-operative Education Coordinator
Tel: 780-791-8945

Environmental Technology

Students alternate semesters of academic study with one four month period of paid employment in a position in industry, government, or other organization related to the environmental field. This arrangement permits students to acquire relevant work experience while also assisting in the financing of their studies.

What skills do Environmental Technology students have to offer?

Technical Skills

• Maintenance & calibration of analytical instruments

• Preparation of solutions
• Animal identification

Collection & analysis of:

• Water, air, soil, vegetation, and forestry samples
• Samples for routine geological, hydro geological, and geotechnical projects

Familiarity & experience with:

• Reclamation growing experiments
• Using common laboratory glassware and tools, compound & dissecting microscope
• Conducting base-line bioscience field studies, and flora and fauna inventions
• Rock identification using slab saw
• Geotechnical field monitoring

General Knowledge

• Environmental issues in the resources industries of the Boreal forest
• Boreal forest ecology
• Wildlife management
• Chemical nomenclature, chemistry& organic chemistry processes & laboratory work
• Environmental legislation

Communication Skills

• Training in problem-solving, communications & presentations
• Excellent note taking/observation skills
• Technical writing

Computer Skills

• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• E-mailing & searching the web
• Basic GIS familiarity

Safety Skills

• Loss Management, OSSA & CSTS training
• WHMIS, Confined Space Entry & H2S Alive certificates
• Basic field survey & GPS training
• Wilderness Awareness, Pleasure Craft Operation
• Compass use, map reading, GPS, remote sensing & interpretation of aerial photos
• Laboratory safety
• St. John Ambulance Standard First Aid certificate
• Site specific safety training at various industrial & resource locations

Academic and Work Term Schedule

Year 1

First Semester: September - December
Second Semester: January - April
Work Term: May - August

Year 2

Third Semester: September - December
Final Semester: January - April
 

Graduate: May