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Over the past weeks, provincial and territorial governments have ordered all but essential businesses to close as Canada tries to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The battle against the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated media coverage over the past month, and the Engineers Canada Daily Media Report has been full of stories about how engineers are using their skills and resources to contribute to this global fight.
The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) is closely monitoring the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CEAB-accredited engineering education programs.
Today, Engineers Canada and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) jointly announced that an agreement has been reached for ICLR to assume ownership of Engineers Canada’s PIEVC Program, which includes the Protocol for infrastructure climate risk and vulnerability assessment (the “Pr
Deans of Higher Education Institutions offering CEAB-accredited engineering education programs
CEAB statement #2 on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)
Engineers Canada’s response to COVID-19. Coronavirus transmission and wastewater. Potential overhaul at University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering. New statistics on employment at BC’s top engineering firms. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report in mid-March.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, it is straining medical systems and supplies, and changing daily life as people practice social distancing, schools clo
Camp 5 removed as Iron Ring Ceremony presenters. Engineers Without Borders and the #AidToo movement. An Oregon engineer’s red-light camera research changes how traffic engineers calculate timing of traffic lights. Disciplinary action in Quebec against Pierre Shoiry.
To: Deans of Higher Education Institutions offering CEAB-accredited engineering education programs
CEAB statement on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) turns 100 this year, and their celebrations are focused,
The third annual national gathering of the Canadian Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (.caISES [dot-see-eh-sis]) hosted over 170 participants for three days o
What are the biggest challenges facing countries around the world, and what are the biggest obstacles to solving them?
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and a day that marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.
At a ceremony on February 25, 2020, Engineers Canada honoured the six recipients of its 2019 scholarship program.
On February 14, 2020, l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec celebrated it’s hundredth anniversary. Founded in 1920 to ensure the competence and ethical behaviour of the province’s 500 engineers at the time, a century later, OIQ now oversees 65,000 engineering professionals.
Controversy over the Camp 5 Iron Ring ceremony briefing in BC. Remembering Western University’s former engineering dean. Trailblazing Canadian women in STEM. These were some of the most-read stories from the Daily Media Report in late February.
For more information contact Shelley Ford, Communications Specialist at shelley.ford@engineerscanada.ca