The Faculty of Engineering at Lakehead University through the Department of Electrical Engineering offers a unique Post-Diploma Engineering Degree Program at the Thunder Bay campus to graduate technologists. All entrants to this program should realize that they are being admitted into an Engineering degree program designed specifically for them, rather than part-way through a regular Engineering program.

The Post Diploma Program at the Thunder Bay campus offers qualified technologists a Bachelor of Engineering Degree with a major in electrical engineering. It extends the technologists' capabilities into more advanced conceptual and design phases of engineering. This is accomplished through a series of core and elective courses, engineering design, and a major project which enables the student to emphasize a particular area, such as computer applications, communications networks, industrial control or electrical power distribution.

TRANSITION PROGRAM

In order to make the transition from technology to degree studies and from industry to university, the Faculty of Engineering provides a number of transition courses which are required by all students entering a post diploma engineering degree program at Lakehead University from other institutions. These courses are normally taken during the summer prior to the third year of the degree program.

The Faculty of Engineering Admissions Committee will review each student's application for the B.Eng. program and use the guidelines included in the course descriptions below to decide upon the transition course requirements for each student. Students are reminded that the Faculty of Engineering reserves the right to set the transition course requirements it deems appropriate for each individual student. All post-diploma students are required to take the transition mathematics courses Engineering 3021: Analysis A and Engineering 3022: Analysis B. Electrical Engineering post-diploma students are also normally required to take Engineering 3015: Engineering Thermodynamics and Engineering 3016: Engineering Mechanics. If the transition course Engineering 3014: Engineering Chemistry is required, it is normally taken in the Winter term of the regular academic year. Make-up courses may also be required, based on a comparison of our courses with your college technology program. Students are advised of their required transition courses and any make-up courses, as well as their timetable, upon admission to the engineering degree program. See the College Transfer Program for more information about our post-diploma programs.