College Diploma - Mechanical Engineering Technician - Tool Design

The Mechanical Engineering Technician – Tool Design diploma is a two-year program in designing the tooling, dies and moulds that manufacturing depends on.

Students cover engineering drawing and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, computer-aided design and 3D modelling, materials science and heat treatment, machining and manufacturing processes, jig and fixture design, die design for stamping and forming, mould design for plastic injection, tool materials and surface treatments, design calculations and tolerance stack-up, and metrology and inspection.

Tool and die design is a specialised, ageing and consistently understaffed field in Ontario. Every manufactured part requires tooling to produce it, the design work is technical and cannot be offshored easily when tied to local production, and experienced designers are retiring without replacement. It is a narrow market but a persistently short-handed one.

Newnham is Seneca’s largest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, with its own residence, library, athletic centre and specialised technical labs. It sits on the TTC network with subway connections, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology and engineering catalogue — which means the widest range of student clubs, services and peers of any Seneca site.

Seneca Polytechnic — formerly Seneca College — is one of Ontario’s largest public colleges and a Designated Learning Institution. Newnham is its biggest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology, engineering technology, aviation and applied science catalogue. It has its own residence, a large library and athletic centre, and sits on the TTC network with connections to the subway.

Its field maps to CIP 15.0805 (Mechanical engineering technology). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Seneca publishes a PGWP-eligible program list; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.