KPU's Engineering First-Year Certificate
Begin your career in engineering with small class sizes and faculty dedicated to teaching and learning.
The KPU Engineering First-Year Certificate program replicates the first-year engineering curriculum at engineering-degree granting post-secondary institutions such as UBC and UVic. In addition to a set of standard first-year math and science courses, KPU has developed a number of engineering-specific courses – in engineering design, graphics and microcontrollers – that will help prepare students in their subsequent engineering courses. Students who successfully complete the Engineering First-Year program are eligible to transfer directly into a second-year engineering program at various engineering-degree granting institutions.
Students accepted into the Engineering First-Year program are guaranteed seat availability in all their required courses for their first year. The Engineering First-Year program is intended to be completed within one year. Students admitted to the First-Year program who require more than one-year to complete the Certificate courses will be re-classified and will be able to complete the remaining Certificate courses on a first-come basis.
For more information about KPU's Engineering First-Year program, click on the links below.
For their final project in APSC 1299, KPU Engineering students program robots to follow a line through an obstacle course. Watch how their coding improves as they test their robot in this short video.
APSC 1151 sample problem in Descriptive Geometry.
Final testing of engineering bridge project in PHYS 1170.
APSC 1151 sample problem in Orthographic-Isometric Visualization.