To be listed on the Engineers Canada Mobility Register, applicants are required to collect their practical engineering experiences into reports and have them validated by professional engineers familiar with their work. When an individual is identified as a validator, an email is sent by the application system to the validator asking them to validate an experience record. If you have been asked to validate an experience record, this page provides context and what is expected of you.
The Engineers Canada Mobility Register
Engineers Canada is signatory to the International Professional Engineers Agreement (“IPEA”) and the APEC Engineering Agreements (“APEC EA”). Engineers Canada maintains a mobility register intended to facilitate mobility for engineers licensed in Canada looking to practice internationally.
Eligibility as a validator
By selecting you to validate their experience, the applicant has indicated that you are:
- A professional engineer currently licensed in Canada or an engineer who is licensed or registered in a jurisdiction that has an online public register available, familiar with the work as described in their practical engineering experience report, and
- Able and willing to confirm and validate the accuracy of the report as a professional. To be eligible to validate experience, you must be a licensed or registered professional engineer in a jurisdiction (Canadian or otherwise) in which we can confirm your professional status using a publicly available online register. If neither licensure nor registration is required in the jurisdiction in which you practice, then you are not likely eligible as a validator. If you suspect that you are not eligible, please contact the applicant and have them contact us for clarification.
The applicant has also indicated that you are familiar with the work described in the report. To be eligible to validate the experience, you must have first-hand knowledge of the experience completed and be willing to professionally confirm and validate the accuracy of the statements and timelines provided in the practical engineering experience report. It is not required that you have overseen the applicant’s work during the time indicated. The requirement is that you are familiar with the work and are willing to use your status as a professional to validate the experience as practical engineering experience.
If you do not meet these criteria, please decline the validation request.
Validating the experience
You are being asked to professionally confirm that the applicant completed the practical engineering experience described in the report and to validate that their statements are accurate.
You will be asked how much of the experience was spent in responsible charge of significant engineering work. To claim responsible charge of significant engineering work, the applicant must have been licensed to practice engineering independently in at least one Canadian jurisdiction during that time.
We ask that you review the descriptions and timelines carefully. You will be given three options in validating the experience:
- If you agree with the statements as presented, you will certify that the details of the experience are accurate.
- If you require revisions to the record before you can validate it, you may send it back to the applicant.
- You may decline to validate the report, and you will receive no further validation requests from the system for this applicant.
If you are unclear as to some of the terminology used in the validation process, we have provided definitions below.
Definitions
In reviewing the experience provided by the applicant, the following definitions may be of assistance:
Practical engineering experience refers to the hands-on experience gained by an engineer through working on real-world projects or tasks. This type of experience— which must be gained after the educational requirement for licensure as a P.Eng. or ing. is met—allows engineers to apply their theoretical knowledge, communication, and teamwork skills to solve practical problems and to gain an understanding of the challenges and constraints that can arise in the field. Practical engineering experience can be gained through on-the-job training, shadowing, and the practice of engineering. It involves developing skills such as problem-solving, communication, teamwork, and time management.
Responsible charge is the direct control and personal supervision of engineering work. The professional engineer in responsible charge is actively engaged in the engineering process, from conception to completion. Engineering decisions must be personally made by the professional engineer or by others over which the professional engineer provides supervisory direction and control authority. Reviewing drawings or documents after preparation without involvement in the design and development process does not satisfy the definition of responsible charge.
Significant engineering work are programs, projects, or initiatives that have been substantial in duration, cost, or complexity and for which others have relied on the exercise of independent engineering judgment, opinions, or designs.
In general, an individual may be taken to have been in responsible charge of significant engineering work when they have:
- planned, designed, coordinated and executed a small project, and/or
- undertaken part of larger project based on an understanding of the whole project, and/or
- undertaken novel, complex and/or multi-disciplinary work.
What information will be collected from you?
The process of validating these reports requires you to provide details of your engineering licences, confirm that you agree with the contents of the report, confirm your identity, and certify that all information in the form is correct. You will be emailed a copy of your validations upon submission.
Additional questions
If you are unclear on what is being requested of you, feel free to contact us at: mobility.register@engineerscanada.ca