Advance your career with SAITMicro
Accelerate your career and stand out with SAITMicro — short, specialized, stackable courses designed to build the skills you need to succeed, and quickly.
Aligned to current industry standards, SAIT’s micro-credentials develop practical, real-world skills and include competency-based testing. Earning a SAIT micro-credential demonstrates to employers you have the required competencies — both skills and knowledge — to get the job done.
Proudly share your newly acquired skills across your social networks with the SAITMicro badge awarded when you achieve high academic standing.
You can stack eligible micro-credential courses and apply them to a related certificate. That’s right — you can build the skills you need when you need them, while also working towards a higher credential, if and when you choose.
SAITMicro helps you to get ahead of the curve — and stay ahead.
Why a Micro-credential?
In today’s world, continuous learning is essential to stay relevant and competitive. You need to continuously upskill and reskill, and micro-credentials are one way you can level up your career with the skills you need when you need them. Increasingly valued and sought after by individuals, employers, and industry, micro-credentials:
- Focus on specialized, competency-based learning and assessment that verifies and aligns with current industry performance standards and requirements
- Provide a flexible and affordable learning alternative
- Enable you to earn and market your credentials as you go
Start upskilling with SAITMicro and get the recognition you deserve with a shareable digital badge.
Frequently asked questions
A digital badge is a visual, verifiable, and shareable asset you can use to share your learning achievement or credential. More than just a visual recognition, digital badges add credibility by linking to metadata that provides context and verification for your credential, detailing your achievement, what you did to earn it, and details on where you earned it.
In short, digital badges are a trusted and easily verifiable way to showcase your skills and stand out.
You can earn a SAITMicro digital badge by achieving a high academic standing in one of the micro-credential courses offered by SAIT. Under each course description, the required minimum letter grade that must be achieved in order to be issued the digital badge is specified. The minimum letter grade assigned depends on the course and is based on the SAIT grading system:
Percentage Letter
90-100 A+
85-89 A
80-84 A-
77-79 B+
73-76 B
70-72 B-
67-69 C+
63-66 C
60-62 C-
55-59 D+
50-54 D
0-49 F
Note: A “D” grade is the minimal pass for a course at SAIT. External regulatory bodies may require a higher passing grade in specific courses in order for students to attain recognition or certification from those bodies.
When you successfully complete a SAITMicro course with high academic standing, you will receive an email from Credly with steps to claim your digital badge and set up your account. From there, you can then easily share your badge across the Internet – post it on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, embed it on your website and in your email signature, link to it on your resume, and add it to your business card.
SAIT has partnered with Credly, an industry-leading platform for digital credentials. This secure platform allows you to share the badges you earn with your network for ultimate recognition of your achievement.
Yes, you can apply eligible micro-credential courses towards earning a certificate.
Micro-credentials
Welding
| WELD 001 - Beginner Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG Welding) |
| WELD 002 - Welding/GMAW Operators (Beginners MIG) |
| WELD 003 - Oxyacetylene |
Digital Transformation
| DIGI 019 - Applied User Experience Design |
| DSGN 014 - Introduction to Visual Design |
| PMGT 008 - Applied Product Management |
| PMGT 009 - Applied Product Marketing |
Data Science and Automation
Software and Programming
Alternative & Renewable Energy
Compressors
| EQPT 006 – Equipment – Compressors – Positive Displacement |
| EQPT 007 – Equipment – Compressors – Dynamic |
| EQPT 008 – Equipment – Compressors – Drivers, Operation, Maintenance |
Electrical
| ELEC 007 – Electrical – Theory |
| ELEC 008 – Electrical – Equipment |
| ELEC 009 – Electrical – Safety |
Equipment
Fluid Processes (Gas)
Hydrocarbons
| PTPR 007 – Hydrocarbons – Chemistry |
| PTPR 008 – Hydrocarbons – Sampling / Handling |
Instrumentation
| INST 004 – Instrumentation – Measurement |
| INST 005 – Instrumentation – Control |
| INST 006 – Instrumentation – Drawings |
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
| NGAS 001 – Introduction to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) |
| NGAS 002 – Refrigeration Processes I |
| NGAS 003 – Refrigeration Processes II |
| NGAS 004 – LNG Plant Processes |
Oil Processes and Facilities
| PTPR 010 – Oil Processes and Facilities – Fluids – Treating |
| PTPR 011 – Oil Processes and Facilities – Fluids – Water Treatment |
| PTPR 012 – Oil Processes and Facilities – Oilfield / Battery Operations |
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