Engineering First-Year at KPU is a two-semester program designed for well-prepared students to meet the requirements for direct transfer to the second-year of an engineering degree program. KPU's Engineering First-Year program includes many of the courses and topics common to the first-year of engineering degree programs at University of British Columbia (UBC), University of Victoria (UVic) and Simon Fraser University (SFU). Completion of these certificate courses may allow a student to transfer directly to second-year engineering at an engineering-degree granting institution.