Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) School of Industrial Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control

Automation & Instrumentation Courses

• Vocational Graduate Diploma of Project Management in Industrial Automation
• Master of Business and Project Management in Industrial Automation
• Advanced Diploma of Industrial Automation 
• Advanced Diploma of Electrical and Instrumentation (E & I) Engineering for Mining
• Advanced Diploma of Electrical and Instrumentation (E & I) Engineering for Oil and Gas Facilities
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Hazardous Areas and Intrinsic Safety for Engineers and Technicians
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Instrumentation, Automation and Process Control
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Process Control Incorporating Loop Tuning, and Advanced Control Strategies
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and SCADA Systems
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Safety Instrumentation Systems for Process Industries
• Professional Certificate of Competency in Control Valve Sizing, Selection and Maintenance

In order to meet the exacting demands of the oil and gas, mining, manufacturing and downstream processing industries, modern plants are equipped with systems and devices which are needed to measure and regulate variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, liquid level, velocity and density.  Industrial Automation provides the technology to control and monitor a process plant using such concepts as feedback, cascade, feedforward and advanced process control. Here at the EIT, we have developed advanced training and diplomas in Instrumentaion and Control.

There is a critical shortage of automation, instrumentation and control engineers, technicians and technologists around the world now due to the retirement, restructuring and rapid growth in new technologies and industries.  The respected ISA organisation estimated that at least 15,000 new automation engineers are needed annually in the USA alone.  In keeping with the philosophy of the EIT, students in this school are exposed to the practical, up-to-the-minute knowledge and skills demanded by leading industries worldwide, with online instrumentaion courses - The EIT doesn't just cater to a generic student body, instead all of our instrumentation courses online are specific to industry, for example mining engineering.

Students in the Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) School of Automation study subjects which include: process control, instrumentation, control valves, process plant layout and piping design, tuning of process loops, SCADA, PLCs, advanced process control (APC), boiler control, hazardous areas, safety instrumentation (IEC 61511 and IEC 61508), HAZOPs, industrial data communications, networking, deviceNet and Fieldbus, industrial wireless, radio telemetry systems, shielding/EMC/EMI and noise reduction.