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Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board


Engineers Canada established the Canadian Engineering Qualifications Board in 1986. Its primary role is to develop national guidelines on professional engineering qualifications, standards of practice, ethics and professional conduct. The intent of the guidelines is to promote consistency in the licensing, registration and regulatory practices of Engineers Canada's member associations. Ten Engineers Canada national guidelines are currently in publication.

The Qualifications Board is also responsible for the Engineers Canada Examination Syllabus and the Engineers Canada International Institutions and Degrees Database. The associations use the database and Syllabus as guides to develop appropriate suites of technical engineering examinations for international engineering graduates seeking licensure in Canada in order to ensure those individuals meet the standards for admission into the Canadian engineering profession.

The Syllabus describes an examination program to assess the academic qualifications of individuals who have not graduated from an accredited Canadian engineering program, an engineering program that is recognized to be equivalent to a Canadian program through an international agreement, or an engineering program offered outside Canada that has been evaluated by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board and deemed to be "substantially equivalent" to a Canadian program. Examination programs for 21 engineering disciplines as well as programs to assess an applicant's level of basic studies and complementary studies are outlined in the Syllabus. Engineers Canada's Guideline on Admission to the Practice of Engineering in Canada outlines the academic qualifications licensure applicants would normally be expected to demonstrate prior to being admitted into the engineering profession in Canada.

Prior to the ratification of the Agreement on Internal Trade, national mobility for the engineering profession was governed by the Inter-Association Mobility Agreement. The negotiations for this agreement were facilitated by the Qualifications Board in 1999 as part of its work to promote consistency in the regulatory and licensing practices of Engineers Canada's member associations. This agreement allowed licensed engineers to obtain a P.Eng. or ing. licence in another Canadian province or territory with relative ease, regardless of the number of years they had been licensed in their present jurisdiction. It also made it easier for engineers to be licensed in more than one jurisdiction at the same time, which facilitated the regulation of large, multi-jurisdictional engineering projects.

The Qualifications Board has established a number of committees and task forces to assist it in its work, including the:

 

Qualifications Board Membership 

 


Engineers Canada received an honourable mention in the 2012 International Qualifications Network (IQN) Awards’ Innovation category for our International Institutions and Degrees Database

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