Embrace a well paid, intensive yet enjoyable career by taking this comprehensive and practical course. It is delivered by live distance learning and presented by some of the leading automation, instrumentation and control engineering instructors in the world today.

There is a critical shortage of automation, instrumentation and control engineers around the world now due to retirement, restructuring and rapid growth in new industries and technologies.  The respected ISA organization estimated that at least 15,000 new automation engineers are needed annually in the US alone. Many industrial automation businesses throughout the world comment on the difficulty in finding experienced automation engineers despite paying outstanding salaries. For example, about five years ago a gaping hole appeared and remains with control valve specialists being few and far between.

Often universities and colleges do not teach industrial automation as a core subject and much of the key training material (e.g. practical instrumentation and valve topics) necessary to arm you when commencing work as a successful automation, control and instrumentation engineer is missing from their curriculums. However, there are a few notable exceptions with some highly dedicated practitioners.

Many of those universities and colleges that do teach industrial automation and control do so mainly from a theoretical point of view. Furthermore, lecturers often have little experience in industry due to the difficulty in attracting good engineers from the highly paid private sector.

The aim of this 18 month e-learning program is to provide you with core industrial automation skills. The topics that will be covered are derived from the acclaimed IDC Technologies’ and EPIC courses attended by over 200,000 engineers and technicians during the past 15 years. The program covers instrumentation and control, leadership and management as well as new technologies and trends. There are seven threads running through the program to give you maximum, practical coverage in the field of industrial automation.  These threads comprise of Instrumentation, Automation and Process Control, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Industrial Data Communications, Process Plant Layout, Project and Financial Management and Chemical Engineering.

This practical program avoids too much emphasis on theory. This is rarely needed in the real world of industry where time is short and immediate results, with hard-hitting and useful know-how, are required as a minimal requirement.

The instructors presenting this advanced diploma are highly experienced engineers from industry who have done the hard yards and worked in the trenches in the automation, instrumentation and control areas.

EPIC Educational Program Innovations Center and IDC Technologies bring to you online continuing education in Industrial Automation to enable you to upgrade your skills from your home or office. The program comprises 21 topics divided into 72 modules with 72 hour live webcasts and is presented by 10 of the leading automation, instrumentation and control engineering instructors in the world today. It is delivered by an innovative e-learning method which brings the live classroom to your personal computer.