Vancouver Island NR Sub-Group members are invited to the following lunch and learn: Practicing Professionally: What Federal Engineers Need to Know.
The session will be in person and online via MS Teams. Those attending in person will receive a complimentary lunch.
When: Friday, August 22, 2025, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM PST
Where: Cliff Hunt Room, 2nd floor, MCI Shops building, CCG Base, 25 Huron Street, Victoria, BC
Presenters include Kayla Vantriet and David Slade from Engineers and Geoscientists BC.
Please RSVP by August 18, 2025, by emailing choffman@pipsc.ca to reserve your spot and indicate if you will be attending in person so we can order your lunch.
An MS Teams link will be sent to those who register for the online session.
Agenda:
- Introduction and objectives
- Brief overview of the agenda
- Engineers and Geoscientists’ role and relevance to federal departments
- EGBC jurisdiction and federal department
- Clarification of EGBC’s authority over engineers in federal departments
- Implications of non-registration: Restrictions on title and practice in BC
- Firm permit to practice overview
- Applicability of EGBC’s Permit to Practice to federal departments.
- Professional practice management plan
- Quality management standards overview of EGBC’s quality management guides
- Guide to the Standard for Direct Supervision
- Guide to the Standard for the Authentication of documents
- Guide to the Standard for Documented Field Reviews During Implementation or Construction
- Practice guidelines and advisories
- Practice advisory: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in professional practice
- Professional Practice Guideline: Intellectual property/considerations
- Professional Practice Guideline: Peer review
- Q&A discussion
- Closing remarks
- Resources and contacts for follow-up