Power Engineering

Power Engineering

  • Format: Full Time
  • Offered: Multiple intakes
  • Program Duration: 34 weeks
  • Delivery Location: Kamloops, BC

As a power engineer you’ll maintain and operate heating and power plants, refrigeration systems and auxiliary equipment like pumps, compressors, steam turbines, electrical generators, cooling towers and water treatment systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work in commercial facilities like hospitals, schools and apartment buildings, or industrial facilities like pulp mills, mills, power generation stations and petrochemical plants. Plants are certified and regulated by Technical Safety BC and plant size determines the certification required, ranging from 5th and 4th class for small plants to 2nd and 1st class certificates required for larger plants.

What you'll learn

  • Boiler plant operation through eight weeks of hands-on experience on TRU’s training plant.
  • Basic electrical skills (two weeks of instruction).
  • Basic welding skills (one week of instruction).
  • Basic pipefitting, millwrighting and instrumentation skills through hands-on training.

What makes TRU's program unique

  • Hands-on experience operating TRU’s comprehensive steam power training plant. Its two boilers are capable of producing over 10,000lbs of 150 psi steam per hour, turning a 50kw steam turbine and producing enough electricity to power 30 homes.
  • Gain experience on two types of gas-fired steam boilers: Watertube and Firetube.

What you'll graduate with

  • 4th Class Power Engineering Certificate issued by Technical Safety BC.

Admission Requirements

  • Youth Train in Trades - in grade 12 (all core grad requirements completed apart from CLC A and B, and senior electives)
  • Minimum English 12 or English First Peoples 12 – 67% plus
  • Minimum Foundations of Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11 – 67% plus
  • All Core grad requirements completed: 
    • Senior Grad requirements include: English 12 or English First Peoples 12, English 11, Senior Socials, Senior Math (Foundations or Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11), and a Senior Science 
    • All grade 10 grad requirements.