Automation

Profile - General Content

The programme gives the student basic knowledge in the area of automation technologies and their applications. The intention with the program is to offer a shorter continuing professional development for the one who has taken a technically-oriented programme in the upper-secondary school or who has worked with technology in some form and who wants to specialize in the area of automation technologies. The programme is given completely in the form of distance education to make studies possible also for the one who for various reasons wants to study from the place of residence. After completion of the programme, the student receives a University Diploma.

A credit corresponds to a credit point in European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

Qualification Awarded

The education leads up to a first-cycle qualification with the description Higher Education Diploma with specialization in Electrical Engineering.

Prerequisites

For admission to the study programme, general entry requirements are required.

Read more about general admission requirements.

Admission Criteria

In the case of more qualified applicants than available places for the current programme start, a selection is made. This is done in the following way:
Selection to the programme takes place when all qualified applicants can not be offered places. This is done by means of various types of tariffs/grade average dependent on which type of education the application refers to and which background the applicant had. The applicant can belong to several selection groups parallelly and then participates in the selection within respective group.

Grade-based selection:
BG - grade average in the 0-20 scale:
Final school grades from the upper-secondary school programmes, final school grades from the upper-secondary school, adult education at upper-secondary level, foreign grades and transcript of courses and grades of the upper-secondary school.
BF - assessment:
Folk high school with certificate of general/general entry requirements and student assessment. The distribution of locations between the two grade-based groups are made in proportion to the number of applicants in each group.
SA - late applications:
This selection group is for late applications. An applicant that has sent in a too late application is placed in this selection group and is assigned tariff after day of arrival.

Examination-based selection:
HP - the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
In the examination-based selection all qualified applicants with a valid Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test participate. The lowest accepted result to participate in the examination-based selection is 0.1 points.

Other applicants:
The applicant that satisfies the requirement of entry requirements but lacks a tariff can only be admitted provided that all in the above groups have been offered places.
DA Direct admission can take place under certain circumstances through individual review.

Distribution of places:
At the admission to a study programme, 67 % of the places should be distributed in a grade-based selection and 33 % in an examination-based selection. An applicant that satisfies the requirements for both the selection groups should be included in both.

Qualified applicants with the same qualifications:
If two or several applicants to an alternative at first- and second cycle have the same tariff, lots will be drawn.
For complete information about selection, see the admission regulations of BTH.

Admission Procedure

Read about the admission procedure.

Recognition of prior studies and studies abroad

Student who has been admitted to the programme and has earlier completed a course that corresponds to a course within the programme, can apply for recognition of prior studies. If possible, the student will be offered admission to an alternative course. Studies abroad within the programme can normally be partly or fully recognised. In these cases a decision is made via the Learning Agreement, prior the study period.

Read more about studying abroad.

Practical Information

Practical information is found under 'Prospective students'.

Profile - General Content

The programme gives the student basic knowledge in the area of automation technologies and their applications. The intention with the program is to offer a shorter continuing professional development for the one who has taken a technically-oriented programme in the upper-secondary school or who has worked with technology in some form and who wants to specialize in the area of automation technologies. The programme is given completely in the form of distance education to make studies possible also for the one who for various reasons wants to study from the place of residence. After completion of the programme, the student receives a University Diploma.

A credit corresponds to a credit point in European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).

Learning outcomes

In addition to the nationally regulated aims, which are found in section 8, the following aims apply to the education:

After completion of the education, the student should:
- be able to take responsibility for complex automatic process technical systems.
- to a certain extent be able to develop automatic process technical systems from an automation perspective.
- have good ability to implement improvements in automatic process technical systems.
- have both good theoretical as practical awareness about automatic control and automation technologies, the electro - and measuring technique and industrial computer technology.

Mode of delivery

The table below describes a recommended order of compulsory courses included in the programme. Some of the courses of the programme are coordinated by several programmes which can influence the order and the placing of the courses in time. Therefore, we make a reservation against possible changes during the time of the education.

The aim of the study programme is achieved through the courses that are included in the higher education qualification. Assessment and examination take place at course level or parts of the course level and details concerning examination and grading are in respective course syllabus.

During the time of the education, the programme is evaluated both in its entirety and for each course and the evaluations form the basis of continued development work.

NOTE! It is the start term of the course that is stated below. See each course to find out the actual length of the course.

Written Work

The programme is completed by a degree project.

International element

The programme does not contain any specific arrangements to study abroad. Distance education, however, involve possibilities for the student to alone choose from where the studies should be carried out, e g from abroad.

Read about study abroad

Job Profiles

Students with a higher education qualification from the programme can work within both private and public activities as technicians or operators. Example of tasks can be automation of process industries or of municipal water - or waste water outlets.

The education has no specific preparation for international work.

Further Studies

A student with a higher education qualification of 120 credits from the programme can generally not apply for further studies at second-cycle level.

Programme Advisory Board

The programme has a Programme Council that has the assignment of ensuring the usability of the education on and for the labour market.

The Programme Council consists of students, external representatives and teachers and representatives of the main field of study.

The Programme Council meets 2 times a year.

Contact for the Programme Council is: Stefan Sjödahl.