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The awards & recognition committee recognizes the contributions of Chapter volunteers and leads and develops the Engineering Project of the Year Award.

Engineering Project of the Year Award

The Engineering Project of the Year Award recognizes outstanding technical projects within our community and showcases the achievements of local businesses, while promoting the practice of professional engineering and highlighting our Chapter's activities. We look forward to celebrating your successes!

Volunteer Service Recognition Program

PEO's Volunteer Recognition Program recognizes the service that volunteers provide to the association. The efforts of volunteers result in many accomplishments and contribute to the operation and success of PEO. The Volunteer Recognition Service program recognizes volunteers who have served on chapters and celebrates achievements of milestone years of service. The recognition pin is awarded to recognize five, 15, and 20 years of service. The Engineers Canada Fellowship pin recognizes 10 years of service. A special sterling silver pin is awarded when a volunteer has 25 or more years of service.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with local businesses
• Corporate Sponsorship

To improve relations, raise engineering profession awareness and plan events to enhance the profession's relationship with engineering businesses, professional associations and academic institutions in York Region and surrounding communities. 

Business and community outreach activities include:

• Promote licensing to companies in new engineering fields by collaborating with existing champions
• Outreach to professional associations to promote PEO's regulatory role, and the importance of licencing to help and provide resources to their members through their licensing journey (including foreign-trained engineering graduates)
• Collaborate with academic institutions and universities to promote and educate PEO governance and licensing values to engineering students
• Facilitate strong, ongoing relationships between the York chapter and local engineering businesses within York Region and the surrounding area

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with engineering businesses
• Liaison with associations and institutions
• Event facilitation
• Corporate sponsorship

To effectively communicate the chapter business to the members. Communications to members are accomplished through the use of email, website, social media and annual newsletter.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Website maintenance
• Social media marketing
• Graphic design
• Communications strategy

To organize events and provide tools/information that will help to grow and empower professional women both personally and professionally.

The PEO York Chapter has hosted several successful events for our female members, and as a result of feedback from chapter members, we recognize the need for more focus on Women in Engineering.

One important element is to facilitate a strong networking environment for women in different professional roles. In addition, we will encourage and educate young women to learn more about our dynamic profession.

Events hosted by WIE are open to men and women. 

30 by 30 Initiative

In 2011, Engineers Canada launched a bold mission, the 30 by 30 initiative, a commitment to raising the percentage of newly licensed engineers in Canada who are women to 30 percent by 2030.  The 30 percent figure is widely accepted as the threshold for self-sustaining change.  This commitment has been recently expanded in Engineers Canada’s Strategic Plan 2019 to 2021 to include the professional development and retention of women in the profession. 

Volunteer Opportunities

• Speaker
• Organize events
• Event facilitation

To promote engineering to youths. The education committee organizes education outreach activities to inspire youths to explore engineering as a career.

Education outreach activities: 

• Design Challenge for grades 7 and 8 during National Engineering Month
• Mathletics Competition
• Engineer in the Classroom program
• University Entrance Scholarship program
• Career presentations
• York Region Science Fair
• First Robotics

Volunteer Opportunities

• Event facilitation
• Event photographer
• Classroom presentations
• Evaluate projects at technology and science fairs
• Liaison with school boards and teachers
• Corporate sponsorship

To plan events to enhance the profession's relationships with politicians and work to express PEO policy positions to government. 

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with politicians

To facilitate the delivery of the PEO certificates to the certificate recipients and celebrate their career milestone. Newly licensed engineers can choose to receive their certificates by mail or at a certificate presentation ceremony.  PEO York Chapter holds licence presentation ceremony two times per year: one in the winter (February or March) and the other one in the fall (September or October).  If you have chosen to receive your certificate at a presentation ceremony, you will be invited to one of the ceremony.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with venue prior and during the event
• Perform logistics, facilitation, and administration of licence presentation ceremony
• Event photography

To provide mentors to new engineering graduates or internationally trained professionals to help them gain employment, progress their careers or progress their skills to become P.Eng.

Programs overseen by the Mentorship and EIT Committee include:

• Licensure Assistance Program (LAP)
• Accelerated Mentoring
• Ryerson University Mentorship Project
• York University Mentorship Program
• Ryerson University Guest Lecturer for a Day Program

Volunteer Opportunities

• Organize events for EITs and foreign trained engineers
• Event facilitation
• Mentor university students
• Mentor new engineering graduates
• Mentor foreign trained professionals