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

You will receive an activation email with the link to reset your password and set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) when your PEO portal account is migrated to the MFA system. Please check your spam/junk folder if you do not see this email in your inbox. 

If you are an existing PEO portal user, you may have already received an MFA activation email notification to reset your password and choose your MFA delivery method. If you have not activated MFA yet, or you cannot find that email, please go to PEO Portal login page https://secure.peo.on.ca/ebusiness/PEOLogin.aspx. On the top of the page, you can click a button to have the activation email resent to your registered email address. 

This is a personal decision for each licence holder. If they no longer need their PEO licence, they can resign their licence. However, if they keep their PEO licence, they must complete the PEAK program every calendar year; full PEAK requirements apply if they are practising (practice evaluation, professional practice module and CPD report), but reduced PEAK requirements apply if they are not practising (practice evaluation and professional practice module). PEO is exploring exemptions for individuals with extenuating circumstances. Stay tuned for more details.

Please check your email account spam/junk folder for an email from userauthentication@peo.on.ca for the one-time code.

Yes. If they continue to hold a licence, they must complete the PEAK program every calendar year. However, retired engineers who are enrolled in the fee remission program are only required to complete the first two PEAK elements: the practice evaluation and professional practice module. If they are not enrolled in fee remission, they can choose to complete PEAK either as a “practising” licence holder (requiring full PEAK requirements, including the CPD report) or as a “non-practising” licence holder (requiring only the first two elements). PEO is exploring exemptions for individuals with extenuating circumstances. Stay tuned for more details.

Please check your text message SPAM folder for the one-time code or choose Email as your MFA option.

PEO applies this status to every individual with a practice restriction on their PEO licence—like an individual with a suspended licence or who is enrolled in the fee remission program. For many years, this status was noted on an individual’s PEO directory profile with a shall-not-engage-in-the-practice message. This will now also include a licence status of “not permitted to practice”. 

Note: An individual with no practice restriction on their licence can voluntarily choose a licence status of “not permitted to practise” with a practice status of "not practising" and they will not have the PEAK CPD reporting requirement. Also, PEO will review and revise its Licence Status options, as required.

Please go to PEO Portal login page https://secure.peo.on.ca/ebusiness/PEOLogin.aspx. On the top of the page, you can click a button to have the activation email resent to your registered email address. 

PEO licence holders who are engineering lecturers must complete the PEAK program because they hold a PEO licence—either a P.Eng. or limited licence—even though the teaching of engineering is not included in the provincial definition of the practice of professional engineering. They could be allocated either full or reduced PEAK requirements depending on whether their non-teaching activities are the practice of professional engineering, including their research, development, supervision and projects. Engineering lecturers with a licence status of “not permitted to practise” are only required to complete the reduced PEAK requirements (practice evaluation and professional practice module) because they are non-practising (their non-teaching activities are not the practice of professional engineering.) However, engineering lecturers with a licence status of “permitted to practise” are required to complete the full PEAK requirements (practice evaluation, professional practice module and CPD report) because their non-teaching activities include the practice of professional engineering.

PEO licence holders who are engineering lecturers must complete the PEAK program because they hold a PEO licence—either a P.Eng. or limited licence—even though the teaching of engineering is not included in the provincial definition of the practice of professional engineering. They could be allocated either full or reduced PEAK requirements depending on whether their non-teaching activities are the practice of professional engineering, including their research, development, supervision and projects. Engineering lecturers who voluntarily choose a licence status of “not permitted to practise” are only required to complete the reduced PEAK requirements (practice evaluation and professional practice module) because they are non-practising (their research, projects and non-teaching activities are not the practice of professional engineering.) However, engineering lecturers are required to complete the full PEAK requirements (practice evaluation, professional practice module and CPD report) because their research, projects and non-teaching activities include the practice of professional engineering.

Licence holders who are engineering lecturers with a PEAK CPD reporting requirement are likely to be able to comply with their PEAK requirements quickly because they are likely to have a large number of CPD activities to choose from and declare on their PEAK CPD reports.

Note: The requirement for engineering lecturers to hold a PEO licence is not one that is imposed by PEO. 

Once logged into the portal, under profile select “change MFA option” and select the desired option and click save.