Diploma in Electric Mobility Technology
The vehicle transition is national industrial policy: electric two and three wheelers are scaling through swap operators and delivery fleets, assembly and every one of those businesses hires the same missing person: the high voltage certified technician who can service the vehicle, the pack and the charger, and read the data all three produce.
Occupational profile
What you'll be paid to do
The vehicle transition is national industrial policy: electric two and three wheelers are scaling through swap operators and delivery fleets, assembly and every one of those businesses hires the same missing person: the high voltage certified technician who can service the vehicle, the pack and the charger, and read the data all three produce.
The graduate works as any of the following, employed or self employed, at the front of the region's newest industry: assembly ventures monthly; the certification technician energy companies, fleets monthly builder enterprise industry being born swap operators monthly
| Occupation | Where the work is | Starting earnings, observed 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| EV master technician | Mobility operators, dealers, assembly ventures | UGX 900,000 to 2,000,000 monthly; the certification premium |
| Charging infrastructure technician | Charge point operators, energy companies, fleets | UGX 800,000 to 1,800,000 monthly |
| Conversion technician and builder | Conversion ventures, own enterprise | Project margins; the industry being born |
| Fleet technical supervisor | Delivery and ride fleets, swap operators | UGX 900,000 to 2,000,000 monthly |
The 90-Day Promise
From certification to income, stated concretely
Day Pathway Named employer categories with which the College holds or is concluding placement and hiring partnerships: electric mobility operators and swap networks; vehicle assemblers and conversion ventures; charge point operators and energy companies; delivery and ride fleets; dealers and importers; and insurers' technical teams.
Partnership target: twenty active partners by the first cohort's year two training, each offering at least two placements.
The ninety day pathway from certification to income:
Day 0: graduation with the Capability Transcript, the mentor's reference, HV certification records, and an exit project that is a trading operation or a certified delivery.
Day 0: graduation with the Capability Transcript, the mentor's reference, HV certification records, and an exit project that is a trading operation or a certified delivery.
Days 1 to 30: employed route: three arranged interviews with placement hosts in an industry hiring ahead of supply. Self employed route: the enterprise continues; the mentor reviews month one.
Days 31 to 90: employed route: probation support from the practice tutor. Self employed route: referral listing for operator overflow work and conversion orders, standing terms in the partnerships.
Measurement: employment or trading status recorded at day 90 and published in the annual outcomes report, per Part Two, section 2.9.
Programme structure
Every module, with its arithmetic
One credit unit equals ten notional learning hours. 240 credit units, 2400 notional hours: 655 contact, 1355 practical and 330 industrial hours, so practical and industrial hours are 70 per cent of the programme.
h and and al p and n and s One and d ure n y and s EV Two ent Practical and industrial hours together are 1685 of 2400 notional hours, 70 per cent, meeting the hands on test.
Semester 1
| Code | Module | CU | Contact h | Practical h | Industry h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMO101 | High Voltage Safety and EV StandardsElectric vehicles carry voltages that kill silently. Before anything else, the learner earns the high voltage discipline, the | 10 | 45 | 55 | 0 |
| EMO102 | Electrical and Electronic Principles for EVThe theory the EV technician actually | 14 | 65 | 75 | 0 |
| EMO103 | EV Architecture: Motors, Controllers and DrivetrainsThe vehicle understood as a system: the learner strips, tests and reassembles the powertrains of the two, three and four wheeled electric fleet entering the | 14 | 45 | 95 | 0 |
| PRO201 | Professional Communication and Team LeadershipDiploma holders supervise, present and negotiate. This module upgrades the certificate's communication craft into professional leadership: briefing teams, writing for decision makers and representing an employer. | 6 | 30 | 15 | 0 |
Semester 2
| Code | Module | CU | Contact h | Practical h | Industry h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMO104 | Battery Systems and ManagementThe pack is the vehicle's value: the learner tests, services, diagnoses and, within the certified boundary, repairs EV battery systems, with the management electronics understood as deeply as the cells. | 14 | 50 | 90 | 0 |
| EMO105 | Vehicle Systems for the EV TechnicianEVs are still vehicles: brakes, suspension, steering, bodies and the comfort systems customers judge. The learner services the whole machine, with the EV specific differences mastered. | 12 | 35 | 85 | 0 |
| EMO106 | Diagnostic Tools, Data and MethodsModern diagnosis is data work: the learner masters scan tools, vehicle networks, logging and the disciplined method that finds the fault the tool only gestures at. | 12 | 40 | 80 | 0 |
| EMO107 | Workshop Practice and Service OperationsThe commercial workshop's disciplines learned by running one: job flow, parts, warranty and the customer promises an EV operation lives on. | 6 | 15 | 45 | 0 |
| SPND301AI spine | AI, Telematics and Data in MobilityThe spine at diploma depth: fleets stream data, AI reads it, and the technician who commands both becomes the operation's most valuable person. | 14 | 50 | 90 | 0 |
| ITRD301 | Industrial Training OneTen assessed weeks with an EV operator, dealer or workshop at the end of year one, under the Part Two policy. | 16 | 0 | 10 | 150 |
Semester 3
| Code | Module | CU | Contact h | Practical h | Industry h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMO201 | EV Service and Repair, AdvancedYear two's core: the learner services and repairs the full electric fleet to manufacturer procedure, at commercial speed, across the failures the region actually sees. | 18 | 45 | 135 | 0 |
| EMO202 | Charging InfrastructThe other half of electric mobility: the learner installs, commissions and services charging infrastructure from home units to DC fast chargers and swap stations, inside the electrical boundary the law draws. | 16 | 45 | 115 | 0 |
Semester 4
| Code | Module | CU | Contact h | Practical h | Industry h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMO203 | Vehicle Conversion TechnologyThe region's own EV industry begins with conversion: the learner converts petrol two and three wheelers to electric drive to an engineered, certifiable standard. | 16 | 40 | 120 | 0 |
| EMO204 | Fleet Systems and Operations | 12 | 40 | 80 | 0 |
| EMO205 | Two and Three Wheeler EV SpecialisationElectric fleets are operations businesses: the learner runs the maintenance, energy and data systems that keep delivery, ride and logistics fleets earning. | 12 | 30 | 90 | 0 |
| SPN102AI spine | Digital Work and Platform IncomeThe shortest module with the fastest payback: how a technician finds customers, prices work, invoices and gets paid through digital channels. | 4 | 15 | 20 | 0 |
| ENT201 | Enterprise Development and ManagementThe diploma's business module: not just starting an enterprise but running one: people, money, contracts, compliance and growth, taught through the learner's own trade. | 10 | 45 | 45 | 0 |
| ITRD302 | Industrial Training TwoTwelve assessed weeks in year two at technician level with a host project, under the Part Two policy. | 20 | 0 | 10 | 180 |
| EXPD301 | Exit Venture or Employment ProjectThe closing argument, specified in section 11: an electric mobility enterprise trading, or a certified conversion or infrastructure project delivered, defended in the oral examination room. | 14 | 20 | 100 | 0 |
The AI and Digital Practice Spine
AI, taught inside this trade
Applied Here The spine of Part Two, section 2.13 at diploma depth: 18 credit units across and the fleet systems of EMO204.
AI tools for my trade
Diagnostic consults and knowledge assistants verified against measurement; the wrong answer caught before it costs a pack
Data in my trade
Telematics, battery health and energy analytics read into maintenance and money
Working with automation
Management systems, chargers, swap stations and fleet platforms operated and supervised by the technician
Judgement, ethics and safety
HV procedure never shortcut; the certified boundary honest; rider data under the Act
Digital work and platform income
The workshop profile, fleet contracts and mobile money, from SPN102
Learning outcomes
What the graduate can do
- PLO 1
Apply high voltage safety procedure and standards with supervisory authority
Level 5: responsibility for safety within regulated systems
- PLO 2
Analyse EV electrical and electronic systems and measure them fluently and safely
Level 5: applies broad theoretical knowledge to technical problems
- PLO 3
Diagnose and repair EV powertrains across vehicle
Level 5: solves complex technical problems by
- PLO 4
Test, diagnose and repair battery systems within the certified boundary, lawfully in custody
Level 5: operates within defined limits with responsibility
- PLO 5
Service complete vehicles including the systems EVs change and the ones they keep
Level 5: broad skilled performance to standard
- PLO 6
Master diagnostic tooling, vehicle networks and data logging into proven repairs
Level 5: analyses information into technical decisions
- PLO 7
Design, install, commission and service charging and swap infrastructure within the electrical boundary
Level 5: designs and implements within standards
- PLO 8
Engineer vehicle conversions to certifiable standard
Level 5: designs solutions within regulated systems
- PLO 9
Operate fleet telematics, energy and maintenance systems with financial honesty
Level 5: manages resources within broad parameters
- PLO 10
Run workshop operations: job flow, parts, warranty and compliance
Level 5: manages processes with responsibility
- PLO 11
Use AI diagnostics and analytics with measurement verification, handling data under the Act
Level 5: applies new technology with professional judgement
- PLO 12
Supervise and train certificate technicians and operate as a compliant enterprise or high value employee
Level 5: manages own and others' work
Entry routes
Four ways in
- Academic route. UACE with a principal pass in a science subject, or UCE with a relevant National Certificate.
- Vocational route. FC-C05 or FC-C04 or an equivalent National Certificate, with credits recognised toward cognate modules; FC-C05 is the designed feeder.
- Recognition of prior learning. Practising EV and automotive technicians assess against year one outcomes; advanced standing follows demonstrated competence, with the HV safety module never exempted.
- Mature age route. Applicants of twenty five and above with automotive history enter through the access assessment.
Industrial training
Assessed weeks inside a working organisation
- Duration and placement
- Ten weeks in year one (ITRD301, 16 credit units, 150 hours minimum) and twelve weeks in year two (ITRD302, 20 credit units, 180 hours minimum).
- Host organisation types
- Electric mobility operators and swap networks, vehicle assemblers and conversion ventures, charge point operators, delivery and ride fleets, dealers, and energy companies entering mobility.
- Learning objectives
- Year one: EV service and diagnostic work under HV supervision. Year two: pack boundary, infrastructure and fleet work at technician level with a host project of measured value.
- Supervision
- A named host supervisor with HV certification; the practice tutor visits at least twice per placement; HV incidents escalate immediately under the Part Two policy.
- Logbook
- Daily entries against the objectives, countersigned weekly by the host supervisor, reviewed by the practice tutor at each visit, kept on the platform.
- Assessment
- Joint workplace assessment against the practice rubric each year, plus logbooks and the year two host project.
Assessment and certification
Continuous practical, plus UVTAB
A human assessor confirms every AI-avatar oral examination result before it stands, and the trainer who taught a learner never marks that learner's summative assessment.
- Internal continuous assessment, 60 per cent: workshop task assessments, module projects, logbooks and oral checkpoints, marked under the separation rule of Part Two.
- UVTAB external assessment, 40 per cent: the Board's written and practical occupational assessments for this qualification, taken at the gazetted sittings.
- Practical competency assessment: every practical outcome is assessed by observed performance against published criteria; evidence is retained.
- Oral examination option: any module checkpoint and the exit project defence may be taken in the AI avatar oral examination room, with human confirmation of every result.
- Grading scale: Distinction 80 to 100; Credit 65 to 79; Pass 50 to 64; Not Yet Competent below 50, with the right to reassessment.
- Pass and progression: every core module at Pass or above, all practical competencies demonstrated, industrial training completed, exit project at Pass or above.
- Resit rules: two reassessment opportunities per module without repeating attendance; a third attempt repeats the module; reassessment covers only the outcomes not yet demonstrated.
Exit project
A real venture, or a real employer brief
Venture route: launch an electric mobility enterprise: the ENT201 business plan, registration, a live operation in service, conversion or charging, at least one certified conversion or three fleet contracts delivered and documented, and a twelve month cash plan.
Employment route: deliver one substantial project for a real or College sourced client: a certified conversion programme, a commissioned charging installation, or a fleet systems implementation with measured availability, to employer standard.
Deliverables:
The project file: specifications, engineering documentation and certification or commissioning packs The physical work: the vehicles, infrastructure or fleet results, verified and witnessed The commercial record: contracts, invoices and client acceptance The defence: presentation and oral examination, human confirmed Grading criterion Weight What excellent looks like Technical quality 30% Work to procedure, verified viability numbers close Engineering 10% Packs complete to documentation inspection standard Defence 10% Every decision explained
- The project file: specifications, engineering documentation and certification or commissioning packs
- The physical work: the vehicles, infrastructure or fleet results, verified and witnessed
- The commercial record: contracts, invoices and client acceptance
- The defence: presentation and oral examination, human confirmed Grading criterion Weight What excellent looks like Technical quality 30% Work to procedure, verified viability numbers close Engineering 10% Packs complete to documentation inspection standard Defence 10% Every decision explained
Progression
Where this qualification leads next
No Forward College learner ever meets a dead end.
Within Forward College: graduates enter FC-H02, the Higher Diploma in Industrial Automation and Robotics Maintenance, or FC-H03 for the charging energy specialism, with the diploma's credits recognised toward cognate modules.
Into Forward University: the staircase runs through the higher diplomas into the University's engineering degrees with credit transfer of up to one third under the Part Two, section 2.12 equivalence tables.