The TCOM program consists of courses covering theory and labs that focus on telecommunications equipment and systems. Skills acquired include installation, commissioning, and maintenance of systems and equipment related to radio, video, telephone switching, digital and data communications, microwave communications, satellite communications, and fibre optics. Graduates are prepared for employment with companies involved in manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and sales of telecommunications equipment.
Practical aspects of installation, testing, troubleshooting, and maintaining telecommunications equipment with complex test equipment are stressed in the lab sessions.