• Professional engineer application changes

    As of July 18, 2026, all professional engineer applicants are required to use the revised competency-based assessment process, which includes the integration of eight Canadian work environment equivalencies into the existing 22 competencies.

Letter of Recommendation for Postgraduate Engineering Work Experience Credit

As part of your request for postgraduate work experience credit, you must arrange for your project or thesis supervisor to send APEGA a letter of recommendation on university letterhead. They must send the letter directly to APEGA, either by mail or by email from their university email address to [email protected].

Letter of Recommendation Contents

The letter of recommendation must contain all of the following information.

  • Confirmation of whether your supervisor is a professional engineer or professional geoscientist, and the jurisdiction in which they are licensed
  • Acknowledgement that you were a graduate student under their supervision
  • The length of your graduate program (e.g., September 2009 to June 2013)
  • A brief description of your thesis or research project
  • The length of your full-time research period (including coursework)
  • A brief description of your research methods (e.g., experimental approach, theoretical modelling, or other methods)
  • Details of the engineering or geoscience experience and the value of your thesis or project report, including:
    • how you applied engineering or geoscience principles and theory, design and synthesis, technology of data processing, and interpretation
    • the approximate percentage of your work related to engineering or geoscience
    • a list of journals that published your research, if your research led to publication
    • the technical merit of your project
  • Details of your responsibility and accountability during the project, including:
    • a description of your communication skills and level of competency
    • whether you conducted the research independently or relied significantly on others
    • whether you performed troubleshooting and problem solving to overcome research challenges
    • whether there was any delay between conducting the research and completing the degree, and if so, what caused it (e.g., you started working in another position while completing your degree)
  • Your understanding of the societal implications of engineering and geoscience
  • Any other factors the supervisor considers relevant to the application