Electrical Trades Pre-Apprenticeship
This course provides students with the opportunity to learn industry terminology and various skills including basic circuitry and colour coding. This enables students to communicate professionally with prospective employers. The electro-technology industry is experiencing job growth, leading to exciting careers in electrical trade as an electrician, electrical fitter, electrical machine repairer and installation of security systems, refrigeration and air conditioning.

Advanced Diploma of Electronic Engineering .
The Advanced Diploma of Electronic Engineering is based at NMIT's Epping campus and is a course for people who are interested in the technical environment of the communications industry.

Throughout this course students will learn to understand basic and digital electronics with subjects involving audio and digital design technologies. When the course is completed students may gain employment in the electrical technology and engineering industry in design, development, and maintenance roles.

“The course is practical, there's plenty of hands-on work. People build all sorts of devices, circuits i.e. test circuits and it involves many aspects of electronics from how a basic kettle works to how a mobile phone communicates with other mobile phones. It's a very diverse range of aspects to electronics.

There are always new courses being introduced and we're about to introduce a business machines course, dedicated to people who need to work in repair environments whether repairing photocopying machines and other business machines: printers, fax machines, anything that you can find in an office that need repair from time to time. We find that there is actually a shortage of those kinds of tradespeople at the moment.” - Gerry Cervasio, Electronics Program Co-ordinator

Electrical power systems
NMIT's Heidelberg campus is one of Victorias major training centres for building trades, electronics, and engineering. This campus offers students both diploma, and advanced diploma courses in the electrical power systems section.

Licensed Electrical Assessment (LEA) examinations for electrical workers
NMIT is pleased to announce the opening of the LEA Assessment Centre at the Preston campus. The LEA is a combination of three separate assessments, sat at three different times as part of the requirements of obtaining an electrician's licence in Victoria. The Computer Systems & Electrotechnology Department now offers a range of assessment options for electrical licence applicants including A, L and D Class.

NMIT is authorised by ESV to undertake the LEA assessments as part of the process of gaining the qualification necessary to apply for an A Class electrician's licence.