Industry committee  I can speak for at least one individual who was just hired recently as the chief executive officer of the Alberta professional engineering and geoscientists association. As we're in Ottawa, we do have quite a few of them around, so from the Ottawa chapter we see a number of these

Industry committee  A lot of demand has been mentioned in a number of areas in Canada, areas where we're not producing enough engineers. Mining and nuclear were mentioned. Certainly the nuclear medicine side of things, which wasn't mentioned, is really growing, as are the biomedical and nanotechnolo

Industry committee  In excess of 90% actually meet the requirements. Some individuals are asked to write confirmatory exams. In Ontario, it's a small number of the applicants who end up actually writing confirmatory exams, because they will interview the individual. In the interview process, they'll

Industry committee  Thank you to the federal government for the enormous amount of funding that we've had over the last 10 years on this. We were able to put a lot of work into getting the regulators to work together to come up with strong systems, support each other, and share best practices. We b

Industry committee  What we can report is that there's certainly a heightened level of interest from the AFN. It's been taking us quite a while to be able to sit down and ferret out how we can help. Certainly the situation recently with Idle No More has taken much of their attention, and we've had a

Industry committee  The first question would be what discipline of engineering and what area within that discipline the student is interested in. Having that information in hand, then yes, there are probably parts of the country or particular industries that we can point them to, as well as mentors

Industry committee  I would still be asking where their interest is, because it doesn't matter where the employment is. If you end up in an area you're not really enjoying, how much are you going to be able to...?

Industry committee  I don't believe we have done that, and I think that is a really interesting aspect for us to look at. Certainly the engineering community has a range of skill sets from the incredibly detail-oriented to the less detail-oriented and more big-picture, strategic-type thinkers. We ne

Industry committee  I'm not going to say that it's a myth, but it might be a little bit exaggerated.

Industry committee  We know how many people come to the doorsteps. We don't know how many people enter the country and declare themselves as engineers.

Industry committee  Do you mean on why they didn't get licensed if they went to the doorstep? Absolutely.

Industry committee  We are very familiar. We've been working very closely with Citizenship and Immigration. We've put a tremendous amount of work into making the engineering licensing process a little bit quicker. The commitment that has been made and kept by our regulators is that once they recei

Industry committee  We've done quite a bit of work to find out why self-declared engineers haven't actually gone to get licensed. A big part of it is that they need to get a little bit of Canadian experience at least in order to understand the business culture. It doesn't have to be experience gaine

Industry committee  Up until 1989, the enrollment in undergraduate engineering degree programs by women was about 10%. It started to increase after that. Largely as a result of the unfortunate incident at École Polytechnique in Montreal, there was a big push in trying to attract women into engineeri

Industry committee  All disciplines of engineering are involved in the oil sands. Certainly the environmental aspect of it is very attractive to the females.