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Our Vision
Engineering for a prosperous, safe and sustainable Canada , | |
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Facilitate continuing education and professional development and promote standards of education and training in the Engineering Community. Recruit and recognize quality providers, including member societies, that adopt the standards promoted by the institute |
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Recognize deserving engineers at an annual awards banquet with Fellowships and medals. Recognize non-members of member societies that make important contributions to Engineering with Honorary membership. | |
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Advocate for the recognition of historic Canadian engineering sites. Advocate for Induction of outstanding members of member societies to the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. Archive Canadian engineering biographies.on the EIC web-site Publish historical papers on the EIC web-site, and Develop a virtual museum of Canadian Engineering. http://power.eng.mcmaster.ca/findlay/eicweb/virtual.html. | |
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Conduct joint society multi-disciplinary conferences on a regular basis. | |
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Promote the role of the learned societies to undergraduate and recently graduated engineers Promote engineering as a career to grades 5-12 (in conjunction with Engineering Summit Group). | |
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Administer the purchase of Group Directors Insurance for participating member societies while funding the first $2M of said insurance. Maintain the EIC web site Group Career Site and share income with the member societies. Represent: the member societiesAt PAGSE (the partnership group on science and engineering), the Engineering Summit group (CAE, ACEC, CCPE, NCDEAS & EIC) and Engineers for a Safer Canada. Provide administration for the Canadian Society for Engineering Management, the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and the membership database for the Canadian Society for Senior Engineers. Share best practices among constituent societies | |
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The Engineering Institute of Canada is an umbrella organization for twelve engineering societies governed by a board consisting of an elected executive, President, President-elect, Past President and Treasurer, and ten board members one each from the member societies. The EIC provides Canadian engineers the possibility of: inter society cooperation such as advocacy, interaction with other organizations and the mounting of events when the subject matter is sufficiently broad such as the Canadian Conference on Climate Change Technology; or economies of scale as in group Directors Liability Insurance, a combined Career Site, and administrative services. | |
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