Pre-graduate Work Experience for Engineering Applicants

If you are applying for a professional member or licensee designation with APEGA, you may receive work experience credit from the APEGA Board of Examiners (BOE) for experience gained before completing your engineering undergraduate degree.

The BOE may grant up to 12 months of credit for engineering work you obtained after completing two years of acceptable post-secondary education in engineering or engineering technology. This experience may be at either a technologist or professional level.

Pre-graduate work experience credit can only be granted once you are academically qualified. The review of this credit is separate from the academic review.

If you have previously submitted only a confirmation of graduation (i.e., Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board graduates), APEGA may request full transcripts that outline the co-op or student internship work experience.

Types of Pre-Graduate Work Experience Credit

There are two types of pre-graduate work experience.

1. Co-op and internship programs
2. Summer work or other work experience

Recording Work Experience

To request pre-graduate work experience credit, complete and submit a Work Record Validator List (WRVL) page covering the period of your pre-graduate work experience. Complete the form as follows.

1. In the WRVL record validator section, provide your supervisor’s information.
2. In the WRVL record employment section, provide:
   1. your employer’s name
   2. the dates you worked for that employer
   3. your position title
   4. the number of months of full-time and part-time experience
   5. a brief overview of the engineering experience gained
3. In the WRVL record reference section, provide the reference information. This can be the same as the validator information or different.

Part-time experience that overlaps academic studies is typically not considered as acceptable experience.