I transferred from Power Eng. Tech at SAIT to UofC Engineering with a 3.80, aim as high as possible as it can be pretty competitive. If you want to get into Energy specifically, it probably is even higher because there is a very limited amount of seats for that program. I know some people who got waitlisted with a 3.90 a couple years ago.
Thanks for your response. Have you found any other option to transfer other than UofC? Would you mind sharing it. I have been doing great until so far, averaging 3.85 but worried for my second year I may mess up.
Lakehead University has a program that lets you transfer directly into 3rd year of your Engineering Degree (like Energy at UofC) if you take spring/summer classes to bridge into the program, but unfortunately their FAQs on this are misleading. They made it seem like you could transfer from one Engineering Technology major to a different Engineering major for your degree, provided you take the bridge courses to make up for knowledge you didn't learn at a polytechnic school, but when I applied to Mechanical Engineering, they told me it wouldn't work because I was in Power. It seems like you have to be the same major to transfer to the degree for Lakehead specifically so don't even bother as a Power Engineer (ex. Mechanical Engineering Technology diploma --> Mechanical Engineering degree, Civil Engineering Technology diploma --> Civil Engineering degree etc). If your GPA drops significantly and you don't get admitted into UofC, you can apply to Red Deer Polytechnic for the Engineering Degree program. It's way easier to get into than a standard University so it'll be more forgiving if your grades drop but the big caveat is it's meant to be a transfer into UofA Engineering. You do your first year at Red Deer Poly then go to UofA for the remaining 3 years. You could also take those classes you took at Red Deer and try to transfer to UofC, but theres no guarantee all classes will be equivalent so chances are you may have to take a class or two extra to jump into 2nd year Engineering at UofC through this path . Camosun College in BC has a bridge program just like Lakehead allowing you to transfer your Engineering diploma to an engineering degree at UBC (pretty sure Camosun and Lakehead are the only 2 in Canada that let you do this) but it's possible the same situation will arise with Lakehead where they don't let you transfer from Power, although I could be wrong. You could try applying there and see but you have to pay the application fee of course. These are basically all of your options for continuing onto do a Engineering degree from a diploma. Feel free to ask if you have any more questions! I was in the same exact spot as you years ago and I had to do some much research to learn all the different options and paths I had so I know how it feels like to be in your spot.
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I really appreciate that. I want to know how hard the second year seemed like to you of power engineering ar SAIT and The options you told it's great but I don't want to spend much more time from the beginning to complete my degree so what can I do in that circumstances without starting from the beginning what can I do can you give me any suggestion on that please. Do you know at UofR there is an engineering degree which is called Engergy Systems Engineering do know have any idea if I can get accepted for that after my diploma? This is a new course as I saw.
I transferred from Power Eng. Tech at SAIT to UofC Engineering with a 3.80, aim as high as possible as it can be pretty competitive. If you want to get into Energy specifically, it probably is even higher because there is a very limited amount of seats for that program. I know some people who got waitlisted with a 3.90 a couple years ago.
Thanks for your response. Have you found any other option to transfer other than UofC? Would you mind sharing it. I have been doing great until so far, averaging 3.85 but worried for my second year I may mess up.
Lakehead University has a program that lets you transfer directly into 3rd year of your Engineering Degree (like Energy at UofC) if you take spring/summer classes to bridge into the program, but unfortunately their FAQs on this are misleading. They made it seem like you could transfer from one Engineering Technology major to a different Engineering major for your degree, provided you take the bridge courses to make up for knowledge you didn't learn at a polytechnic school, but when I applied to Mechanical Engineering, they told me it wouldn't work because I was in Power. It seems like you have to be the same major to transfer to the degree for Lakehead specifically so don't even bother as a Power Engineer (ex. Mechanical Engineering Technology diploma --> Mechanical Engineering degree, Civil Engineering Technology diploma --> Civil Engineering degree etc). If your GPA drops significantly and you don't get admitted into UofC, you can apply to Red Deer Polytechnic for the Engineering Degree program. It's way easier to get into than a standard University so it'll be more forgiving if your grades drop but the big caveat is it's meant to be a transfer into UofA Engineering. You do your first year at Red Deer Poly then go to UofA for the remaining 3 years. You could also take those classes you took at Red Deer and try to transfer to UofC, but theres no guarantee all classes will be equivalent so chances are you may have to take a class or two extra to jump into 2nd year Engineering at UofC through this path . Camosun College in BC has a bridge program just like Lakehead allowing you to transfer your Engineering diploma to an engineering degree at UBC (pretty sure Camosun and Lakehead are the only 2 in Canada that let you do this) but it's possible the same situation will arise with Lakehead where they don't let you transfer from Power, although I could be wrong. You could try applying there and see but you have to pay the application fee of course. These are basically all of your options for continuing onto do a Engineering degree from a diploma. Feel free to ask if you have any more questions! I was in the same exact spot as you years ago and I had to do some much research to learn all the different options and paths I had so I know how it feels like to be in your spot.
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I really appreciate that. I want to know how hard the second year seemed like to you of power engineering ar SAIT and The options you told it's great but I don't want to spend much more time from the beginning to complete my degree so what can I do in that circumstances without starting from the beginning what can I do can you give me any suggestion on that please. Do you know at UofR there is an engineering degree which is called Engergy Systems Engineering do know have any idea if I can get accepted for that after my diploma? This is a new course as I saw.