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Engineers Canada recognizes six engineers with scholarship awards
February 27, 2020
At a ceremony on February 25, 2020, Engineers Canada honoured the six recipients of its 2019 scholarship program. The recipients were chosen from a large number of submissions from across Canada
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OIQ celebrates its centennial
February 27, 2020
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. That makes it the province’s largest profession in the field of applied sciences.
Join the celebration! March is National Engineering Month
February 27, 2020
Engineers Canada is proud to once again present National Engineering Month, Canada’s annual celebration of engineering.
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Daily Media Report recap: February 14 to 27
February 27, 2020
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. Iron Ring briefing: The Camp 5 Iron Ring ceremony brie…
Engineers Canada and Victor celebrate fifty-year partnership in 2020
February 13, 2020
Insurance Business Canada magazine recently ran a feature on Victor (formerly ENCON), who this year celebrates their fiftieth anniversary of providing the Engineers' Professional Liability program for Canada’s engineers. The article, “Built for Builders”, notes Victor’s sustainable thinking, adaptability to changing industry risks, and leading-edge planning in the face of globalization-related challenges as some of the keys to the program’s long-term success.
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Canadian team joins ESA’s CanSat Competition for second year running
February 13, 2020
A team of high school students from BC is packing satellite technology into a soda can-sized probe.
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Daily Media Report recap: January 31-February 13, 2020
February 13, 2020
The APEGA Foundation shuts down. The engineering profession answers questions about its assessment process. New professional practice guidelines from Engineers & Geoscientists BC. A new Fair Registration Practices Act in Alberta. How an engineer’s maternity leave has made her a better engineer…
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Milestones for 2020 Enrolment and Degrees Awarded survey
February 1, 2020
It is time to start planning for the 2020 Enrolment and Degrees Awarded Survey (which captures data from 2019). Like last year, we will be using our new data management system, Tandem, to collect data from participating institutions. We heard from institutions that the timelines we used in 2019 wer…
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CEAB meets in Ottawa
February 1, 2020
On February 8, the Accreditation Board met in Ottawa for a one-day meeting, where they covered a number of key items: The passing of a motion to recommend to the Engineers Canada Board that criterion 3.4.6 be modified to reduce the total number of required accreditation units (AUs) from 1950 to 18…
Deadline extended! Request for proposals: A cloud-based solution to help Canada's engineering regulators access database information about international engineering programs
January 31, 2020
Engineers Canada is conducting a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the development and implementation of a customized cloud-based solution to help Canada's engineering regulators access database information about international engineering programs. Engineers Canada requires a cloud-based soluti…
