School of Manufacturing and Automation
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The School of Manufacturing and Automation provides the skills-based training and development to prepare you for a career in Alberta's rapidly growing oil and gas, transportation, manufacturing and automation sectors.
As one of SAIT’s founding schools, we’ve provided hands-on training and development for more than 100 years, preparing students for rewarding careers in oil and gas, transportation, manufacturing, and automation.
Our programs are developed with consultation from industry representatives, emphasizing hands-on skills and tech-infused learning. Whether you choose pre-employment trades, non-destructive testing foundations, mechanical engineering, or any of our other programs, our curriculums keep up to date to meet evolving industry demands, ensuring you are job-ready the moment you graduate.
There’s no better place for you to get career-ready than with our trades and technology programs #HereAtSAIT.
I really value my time at SAIT. The small class sizes, the relationships with the instructors and the hands-on learning where you do the work means everything you learn in the classroom applies to the real world.
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Levi Kuta
SAIT alumnus, School of Manufacturing and Automation![](/assets/image/calls-to-action/full-screen-1300x860/ct-aldred-centre-dusk-1300x860.jpg)
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Alumni success stories
As CTO at Evans Consoles, the Mechanical Engineering Technology grad oversees the development of the company’s portfolio.
The portfolio? It includes more than 15,000 control room units handling mission-critical operations around the world — from 911 centres to air traffic control towers and even NASA.
Student support
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The latest news about our students, alumni, staff, industry partners and more.
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Taking the machining trade to high school shop classes across southern Alberta
CADMUS Teaching Chair recipient on the importance of creating early awareness for the skilled trades
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Peek inside Santa's workshop #HereAtSAIT
With skills and expertise in trade, tech, hospitality, health and business, we have the ticket #HereatSAIT to ensure holiday cheer for Santa and his team of hard-working elves.
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SAIT's metallurgy lab gets ready for an upgrade
SAIT's metallurgy lab is believed to have been established in the 1940s. Since then, around 450 students have used the lab every year. While the tools available are still the industry's gold standard for metallurgy study, the school wants to modernize to better serve its students.
Contact us
School of Manufacturing and Automation
TT468, Thomas Riley Building, SAIT Main Campus
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Phone - 403.284.8641
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Email - ma.info@sait.ca
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.