Knowledge Centre

PEO publishes a variety of resources to assist licence holders in their roles and responsibilities, as well as guidance for applicants going through the licensure process.

Resources

Ontario professional engineers are part of a community of more than 87,500 PEO licence and certificate holders committed to enhancing the quality of life, safety and well-being in the province.


As Ontario’s engineering regulator, PEO relies heavily on its volunteers. More than 1,000 professional engineers, engineering interns and non-engineers volunteer their time each year on behalf of the association through their participation.


PEO's mandate, as described in the Professional Engineers Act, is to ensure that the public is protected and that individuals and companies providing engineering services uphold a strict code of professional ethics and conduct.


Online Learning Modules

PEO’s Online Learning Modules provide licence holders, volunteers, staff and applicants with various learning and development opportunities.

Practice Advice Resources and Guidelines

PEO offers a variety of practice advice resources to assist licence holders in providing professional and ethical engineering services.

Frequently Asked Questions

A candidate can submit industry sponsored research under the CBA. 

Visit https://peo.on.ca/apply/become-professional-engineer to see the new CBA application process steps and to get started.  

Please note that we only consider requests to expedite when applicants provided us with a letter signed by the employer, or potential employer, indicating that: 

1. The P.Eng designation is needed for the applicant to perform certain duties in their current work; or  

2. The P.Eng designation is a condition of a job offer and is a limiting factor for the applicant to be hired. 

Applicants may use up to 12 months of experience acquired prior to the completion of their undergraduate degree towards the minimum 48-month requirement. Applicants can include this pre-graduation experience in the experience summary, being careful to select the pre-graduation option. The start date of this pre-graduation experience must not exceed two years prior to the degree conferral date. 

The competency-based assessment (CBA) framework does not allow for post-graduate studies’ academic credits to be applied towards the experience requirement. However, a candidate or applicant can include post-graduate research or work experience in their CBA as long as they have a qualified validator. 

Candidates are required to assign a new validator for the competencies that were originally assigned to the validator who declined.  

No, PEO is no longer evaluating for Canadian experience.  

 Although this is ideal, the validators do not necessarily need to be from the same place of employment. As long as the validators are sufficiently familiar with the candidate’s engineering work experience and can confidently rate the assigned competencies, that should suffice.   

Ideally yes, but not necessarily. If the validator(s) can attest to your competencies and is familiar with your work, they may be an eligible validator. PEO reserves the right to determine the acceptability of validators.  

Yes, as long as validators are sufficiently familiar with the candidates work and can confidently rate the competencies.