Air Brake Endorsement
Classes 2-7 drivers are able to take this course and add a "Q" endorsement to their license (Class 1 drivers have air brakes specific testing). After successful completion of the practical and written exams at the conclusion of the course, you will be eligible to apply for the "Q" endorsement through a Registry agent. A practical exam is given at the end of the course. Successful completion of the practical portion at Olds College will enable you to write the written theory portion at a registry office to complete the process with Alberta Transportation.
Dates:
Testing times will be booked with the instructor at the start of the course. Testing will occur Tuesday and Thursday evenings 6 pm-9 pm.
- March 4 | Testing March 7 & 9, 2023
Costs: $249 + GST
Apprenticeship & Industry Training (AIT) Entrance Exam Preparation
What can you expect from this program/course?
These online, self-directed courses are interactive with innovative learning strategies. The courses are developed to help you learn the competencies required to be successful in passing the Alberta Apprenticeship & Industry Training Entrance Exam. These courses are able to be customized by the learner!
Dates: 2nd Wednesday of Every Month
Delivery: Online
Blacksmithing
Blacksmithing courses offered:
- FUNdamental Forging 1 & 2: Learn basic blacksmith skills in a hands-on course. The course includes an overview of safety, tools, and forge management. You will go home with at least one finished project. This is a great opportunity for you to be creative and learn a heritage skill.
- Beyond Beginner Blacksmithing: This two-day format will allow the individual that has either completed the FUNdamental Forge course or has done forging on his/her own to step into the next phase. Participants will build multiple tools to use in the creation of a more complex design. (ie various punches, chisels etc and other projects). This course will include discussion of techniques, demonstration and lots of practice in front of the forge. Come ready for a workout, with great tangible results.
FUNdamental Forging
What can you expect from this program/course?
Learn basic blacksmith skills in a hands-on course. The course includes an overview of safety, tools, and forge management. You will go home with at least one finished project. This is a great opportunity for you to be creative and learn a heritage skill.
Fundamental Forging Dates:
- Level 1 FUNdamental Forging - Shepherd's Hook: TBD
- Level 2 FUNdamental Forging - Basic Tool Making: February 25, 2023
Costs: $199 + GST
Level 1 Fundamental Forging: Key Holder
Skills learned:
- learn to draw out , flatten, and make small J hooks
- punching holes, forming scrolls
- possibly chiseling
- you will be completing a key chain holder
Credentials: Non-credit
Program Dates: TBD
Length of Program: 1 Day (7 Hours)
Delivery Method: Olds Campus
Applications Deadline: Minimum enrolment requirements must be met 1-week prior to class date.
Costs: $199 + GST
Required Text & Materials:- Safety boots
- Cotton clothing (heavy jeans or fire retardant coveralls are best)
- High Temperature resistant gloves
- Safety glasses
- Ear plugs
- Cross pein or ball pein hammer & forging tools such as tongs (if you don't have a hammer and tools, some will be available for use.
PPE MUST BRING SAFETY GLASSES, leather shoes, long hair should be tied back and NO HAIR SPRAY, a bandana is recommended to cover your hair.
Level 1 Fundamental Forging: Shepherd's Hook
Learn basic blacksmithing in a 1-day course. In this class, you will learn how to make a half shepherds hook for the garden with a leaf on the end. Skills learned:
- safety
- tools and forge management
- drawing out, flattening
- punching holes
- forming scrolls and a leaf leaf
Credentials: Non-credit
Program Dates: December 17, 2022
Length of Program: 1 Day (7 Hours)
Delivery Method: Olds Campus
Applications Deadline: Minimum enrolment requirements must be met 1-week prior to class date.
Costs: $199 + GSTRequired Text & Materials:
- Safety boots
- Cotton clothing (heavy jeans or fire retardant coveralls are best)
- High Temperature resistant gloves
- Safety glasses
- Ear plugs
- Cross pein or ball pein hammer & forging tools such as tongs (if you don't have a hammer and tools, some will be available for use.
PPE MUST BRING SAFETY GLASSES, leather shoes, long hair should be tied back and NO HAIR SPRAY, a bandana is recommended to cover your hair.
Level 2 Fundamental Forging: Basic Tool Making
Learn basic Blacksmithing in a 1-day course FUNdamental Forging II, Expand your basic blacksmith tools for future projects. You will have a chance to make a third hand, fullering tool, fire poke/rake, watering can handle, s-hook to hang on your forge. You DO NOT NEED to have completed level one, but some experience will make your day go smoother, or just be super adventurous and jump right in!
Skills learned:
- Learn to rivet two pieces of forged material together,
- learn chiseling to make the split scroll ends
- Twisting joinery,
- riveting and or collaring ( connecting several pieces together)
- Rasping and filing
- Some experience is helpful but not required to enroll.
Credentials: Non-credit
Program Dates: TBD
Length of Program: 1 Day (7 Hours)
Delivery Method: Olds Campus
Applications Deadline: Minimum enrolment requirements must be met 1-week prior to class date.
Costs: $199 + GSTRequired Text & Materials:
- Safety boots
- Cotton clothing (heavy jeans or fire retardant coveralls are best)
- High Temperature resistant gloves
- Safety glasses
- Ear plugs
- Cross pein or ball pein hammer & forging tools such as tongs (if you don't have a hammer and tools, some will be available for use.
PPE MUST BRING SAFETY GLASSES, leather shoes, long hair should be tied back and NO HAIR SPRAY, a bandana is recommended to cover your hair.
Beyond Beginner Blacksmithing
What can you expect from this course?
Beyond Beginner- This intense two-day format that builds on the skills learned in the fundamental forging courses. Although there is not a formal prerequisite to this course, this 2-day course is intense and you are in for a workout and steep learning curve if you haven't done any forging, but if you like a challenge and are up for it, jump in. The following weekend projects will help you get your own tools made for you to build your toolbox. These courses include discussion of techniques, demonstrations and lot of practice in front of the forge. You will go home with the tools that you made.
- FUNdamental Forging 1 & 2: Learn basic blacksmith skills in a hands-on course. The course includes an overview of safety, tools, and forge management. You will go home with at least one finished project. This is a great opportunity for you to be creative and learn a heritage skill.
Case New Holland Technician
What can you expect from our program/course?
Olds College and Case New Holland Limited have teamed up to offer this unique program as a professional development stream for Case New Holland Technicians to become certified. The program is structured over four years with ten weeks of training at Olds College each year.
Applicants must be employed by a sponsoring Case New Holland dealer and be indentured as an agricultural equipment technician apprentice or a heavy equipment technician apprentice, or already have Journeyman status in either trade. You may only apply with employer permission. The program supplements apprenticeship training with specialty training on Case New Holland equipment. Case New Holland employed Journeymen may take the specialty training as a standalone program.
CWB Weld Testing
Olds College is an authorized test centre for the Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB). Welders who are not employed by a company certified to CSA W47.1 and are not a member of a union providing testing facilities, are eligible for testing.
Dates: Every Monday, September - April
Length of Program: Times vary depending on testing required
Delivery Method: Olds Campus
Fundamental Forging
What can you expect from this program/course?
Learn basic blacksmith skills in a hands-on course. The course includes an overview of safety, tools, and forge management. You will go home with at least one finished project. This is a great opportunity for you to be creative and learn a heritage skill.
Fundamental Forging Dates:
- Level 1 FUNdamental Forging - Shepherd's Hook: November 26, 2022
- Level 2 FUNdamental Forging - Basic Tool Making: October 15, 2022 and February 25, 2023
Costs: $199 + GST
Introduction to Welding
This program is for beginners and for welders who would like more hands on practice. This course will cover the theory, techniques and shop practice of oxyacetylene welding of mild steel brazing, flame cutting, arc welding and MIG welding.
Program Dates:
- September 19 - October 24, 2022
- Mondays & Wednesdays from 6pm-9pm
- March 13 - April 17, 2023
- Mondays & Wednesdays from 6pm-9pm
Length of Program: 30 hours
Costs: $499 + GST (Manual included)
- September 19 - October 24, 2022
John Deere Technician
What can you expect from our program/course?
Olds College and John Deere Limited have teamed up to offer this unique program as a professional development stream for John Deere Technicians to become certified. The program is structured over four years with ten weeks of training at Olds College each year.
You will benefit from studying in a facility specifically built and equipped with 1.5 million dollars of equipment to professionally develop John Deere technicians. John Deere supplies their most updated product line equipment such as combines, four-wheel tractors, balers, mower conditioners, forage harvesters, air seeders and sprayers.
Powder Coating
What Will You Learn?
In this training session, you will discover the benefits and costs of powder selection, the safety hazards and controls, surface prep and substrates, hanging systems, booth design, powder application, ovens and curing, and quality control and testing. Learn all of the tips and tricks of this trade from our industry experts.
This course offers two training options:
- Online Learning
- Blended (Online/Face to Face)
Small Engines
What can you expect from this program/course?
Learn theory and techniques to diagnose and repair small engines such as motorcycles, lawnmowers, garden tractors, snowmobiles, and other small engines.
Tune up and Regular Maintenance:
- March 6 - March 27, 2023
- (Weekly Mon, Wed from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Register
- (Weekly Mon, Wed from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Overhaul Procedures:
- March 29 - April 24, 2023
- (Weekly Mon, Wed from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Register
- (Weekly Mon, Wed from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Length of Program: 21 hours- March 6 - March 27, 2023
Stump Treatment Pesticide Certificate Tutorial
What can you expect from this program/course?
The Stump Treatment Pesticide Certificate is required for individuals applying herbicides to stumps and is available only to those with a Utility Tree worker or Utility Tree Trimmer Certificate.
Program Dates: April 19, 2023
Costs: $200+GST
Utility Tree Worker & Utility Tree Trimmer Recertification
What can you expect from this program/course?
Utility Tree Worker and Utility Tree Trimmer certifications are valid for 5-years and expire on June 30 of the 5-year anniversary of registration. Register in this course if your Professional Vegetation Management Association (formerly Industrial Vegetation Management Association of Alberta - IVMAA) certificate expires in 2022.
At the conclusion of this course, the student will be up to date with the latest Electrical and Communication Utility Systems Regulations respecting Utility Tree Workers and Utility Tree Trimmers and be able to:
identify acceptable safe work practices and routines while working around energized power lines and equipment
request line outages and equipment blocking
correctly identify limits of approach for all voltage levels and demonstrate these safe clearance distances
properly maintain tools and equipment used to perform work around energized power lines and equipment
identify and implement current electrical safety standards and safety practices important to you on the job
Program Dates:
April 19 - 20, 2023Self-Directed Program Dates:
November 7 - 18, 2022
January 9 - 20, 2023
March 13 - 24, 2023Costs: Tuition $440 (subject to change). See www.pvma.ca for the Professional Vegetation Management Association application fee for certification.
Utility Tree Worker Safety Training
What can you expect from this program/course?
This course was created and is maintained by the Professional Vegetation Managers Association in association with Olds College, the Electrical Safety Technical Service Division of Alberta Labour, and major utilities and their contractors in Alberta.
Program Dates:
- Intake 1: April 17 - 27, 2023
- Intake 2: April 24 - May 4, 2023
Costs: $2625 (price is subject to change). Books are included in tuition cost.
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