About

The purpose of this committee is to review/revisit the existing chapter’s by-law and recommend addition, deletions and amendments in existing rules and make new laws according to requirements, the proposed changes are circulated to the executive board members ahead of the meeting to give members sufficient time to read and comment. The proposed changes are tabled in front of the committee for discussion and acceptance, the bylaws are approved by the majority at an official board meeting that has a quorum of executive members in attendance.

The focus of the committee is to improve the functioning and  governance of the board working. To avoid any conflict all the changes/modifications in the by-law will be adopted with consultation of head office.

1. The by-laws committee makes note of updates needed throughout the year and creates revised drafts regularly.
2. The bylaw committee is responsible for recommending the modification in rules which are essential for good governance like procedure of selecting the office bearer, removing the member, appointing auditors, and organizing events are some to mention.

The committee is always open to considering the suggestion given by any member.

The current Mississauga Chapter's by-law can be found here.

Purpose: To ensure efficient communication to the chapter, from the chapter, and within the chapter.

Communication is one of the most important aspects of operation of any organization.

Different types of communication media are used to deliver information, such as the Web portal, Email, Social Media, and Newsletters. The process of communication occurs in the following directions: chapter board to members, members back to the board, as well as between members themselves. It is our goal to ensure that all three directions are addressed.

We will try our best to deliver information to our audience fresh, immediately after it has been released. News, photos, board minutes, articles, publications, comments, these are just a few types of the information that we are delivering to you.

If you have ideas on how to improve communication in our chapter, please contact us via email at Support.

Purpose: To promote engineering profession among youths and encourage all students to discover their inner-engineer. We do this by reaching out to the community and holding events with the help of countless volunteers.

Education Committee organizes several events throughout the year. Our events are organized and held in partnership with local schools, colleges and universities and are sponsored by local companies in Mississauga and Peel Region.

Currently we organize and support three events annually:

* Bridge Building Challenge

* Mathletics Challenge

* High School Coding Challenge

Other events we hope to revisit and support would be:

*Robotics Challenge

*Flight Challenge

*Peel Region Science Fair

*Canada Wide Science Fair

We hope to do more in the coming years and are always grateful for new volunteers to help expand this committee.

Purpose: The Environment, Transportation & Energy Committee is responsible for promoting environmental awareness to the public and sharing information related to transportation and energy systems and projects.

The Transportation Development promotes discussion and the sharing of ideas related to transportation systems and projects in the GTA.

The objectives of the committee include promoting high-quality transportation systems and evaluating efficient energy resources that make our community more livable, equitable, safe, sustainable, and environmentally friendly. The committee will engage academics, professionals, and stakeholders in its activities.

It will also encourage students and engineers to consider Transportation Engineering as a career and encourage them to study it at the graduate and postgraduate levels.

The Transportation Development Committee was initiated during the 2017 Mississauga Chapter AGM by a motion that was approved by its members.

Activities organized by this committee include:

1. Professional Presentations
2. Seminars
3. Networking
4. Bi-monthly Newsletters and Practice-Oriented Publications
5. Leadership on Local and Regional issues
6. Promotion of Talented Thinking

Purpose: To administer the Government Liaison Program that was created by PEO to let the government hear the voice of engineers.

Liaison between the mayor and local councilors, MPPs, and MPs with PEO to impress the role of PEO as a regulatory body for engineering practices in Ontario. The committee meets with all levels of the government to inform them about the role of PEO and gather information about engineering projects and activities undertaken by the government that may impact the regulation of the profession.

The Government Liaison Program engages members in a number of initiatives through a comprehensive three-pronged approach:

1. Facilitating strong, on-going relationships between chapter members and their local MPPs
2. Actively monitoring and taking action on policy proposals and upcoming legislation that could affect PEO and the Professional Engineers Act
3. Providing communications and policy support to express PEO policy positions to government policymakers when required.

Ultimately, the long term desire is that involvement in the Government Liaison Program will enable the profession’s voice to be represented directly at the decision-making table.

Purpose: The purpose of the Innovation Committee is to support the board and other committees in organizing events that contribute to the achievement of our organization’s goals and objectives. These goals primarily involve promoting and enhancing the participants’ succession planning for PEO leadership roles and their duties as professionals.

Additionally, the committee aims to provide valuable advice and insights regarding innovation and strategies, which include research, development, and engineering programs. It plays a crucial role in reviewing our ability to develop activities, plan effectively, and stay connected to the latest technologies in the field of engineering. This is achieved through the organization of webinars, meetings, and events that facilitate knowledge sharing and networking opportunities.

Purpose: To organize and perform P.Eng. licence presentation.

The Licence presentation is an event dedicated to newly licensed Professional Engineers. The Mississauga Chapter conducts two licence presentation ceremonies on an annual basis. One of these ceremonies is held in the spring and the other in the fall.

Newly licensed members can receive their certificate by mail or at a presentation ceremony. However, if you have chosen the presentation ceremony, you have the opportunity to meet other new Professional Engineers as well as guest speakers.

If you are a newly licensed engineer, a chapter representative will contact you before one of these ceremonies to confirm your attendance. You have any general questions or would like to volunteer at the Mississauga Chapter, you can do so by emailing the Committee Chair.

Purpose: The Licensure Assistance Program (LAP) gives the opportunity for experienced licensed professionals (Guides) to transfer their skills and knowledge to aspiring EITs (Interns) pursuing their engineering license in accordance with the requirements and process of PEO.

Licensing Assistance Program (LAP) is a process for the casual transmission of knowledge, motivation and support perceived by the intern as relevant to career and/or professional development. LAP provides interns with skills they may traditionally have to acquire through trial and error and costly mistakes. Guides help interns to obtain their P.Eng. License by providing their engineering expertise but are not expected to be career counselors or to find jobs for the interns.

Professional Engineers Ontario – Mississauga Chapter (PEO-MC) has started a voluntary assistance program where experienced professional engineers guide other interns who are going through the licensure process. Guides support interns by giving them advice and guidance to help them settle into the engineering profession.

Objectives

LAP is a formal relationship between a guide and an intern with mutually agreed-upon, clearly defined goals for the interns. Guides can specifically help guide the interns through the process of obtaining the Professional Engineering License (P.Eng.).
The relationship, however, should be between two individuals who do not have a direct reporting relationship, but rather a relationship in which coaching and guidance can be provided in a non-judgmental way

Who can be a guide?

Guides are professionals who have engineering knowledge and business experience to provide guidance to interns to help them obtain P.Eng. License and settle into the engineering profession.

Benefits of joining LAP:

• Helping an intern to receive P.Eng licence
• Understanding other cultures
• Making a difference in someone’s life
• Learning about yourself
• Having fun!

Criteria for joining LAP:

• Having P. Eng licence
• Having engineering knowledge and business experience
• Living in Mississauga area

Who can be an intern?

Interns are people who have the engineering knowledge, language and willingness to succeed in their engineering branch but need guidance and advice to obtain P.Eng. Licence.

By working with a guide, an intern can achieve the following:

• Understanding of the Canadian workplace culture
• Selecting engineering skills upgrading programs
• Obtaining guidance through the licensure process
• Improving professional terminology
• Locating technical publications, seminars, and workshops on recent developments in the engineering field
• Identifying the skills required in the market demand
• Establishing professional network

Criteria for joining LAP:

• Completion of the academic requirement for licensure
• Passed or registered for Professional Practice Examination (PPE)
• Living in the Mississauga area

Applicants (guides and interns) please follow this link to start the application process.

Starting January 2023, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) will become a required component for all Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) license holders (both practicing and non-practicing) to maintain their license every year. The mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) program is based on its current optional Practice Evaluation and Knowledge (PEAK) program. It can be ongoing informal and formal learning that allows professional engineers to keep their knowledge and skills relevant and on par with today’s rapidly developing work environment.

The existing voluntary PEAK program will be discontinued as PEO transitions toward the mandatory CPD program. Engineers must complete the mandatory CPD program every year and follow a certain protocol to log the required hours that are associated with their discipline.

Mississauga PEAK/CPD committee will is here to help members through this process of completing their CPD and answer questions.

Purpose: To promote the Engineering profession among grade 12 students, Professional Engineers Ontario, Mississauga Chapter award multiple scholarships ever year. The applications are invited during the month of July. The scholarships are awarded to students who live in Mississauga or have completed high school in city of Mississauga and will be attending an Engineering faculty at an Ontario university accredited by Canadian Accreditation Board (CEAB). The Scholarships are awarded based on combination of academic, extracurricular activities, community services and interest in pursuing a career in Engineering as Licensed Professional Engineer.

The Mississauga Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is pleased to offer three scholarships in the amount of $500 each for the university study term beginning the fall of 2024. Applications will be accepted from Grade 12 students who live in Mississauga or have completed high school in the City of Mississauga in 2024 and who will be attending an Engineering faculty at an Ontario university accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB). Completed applications must be received by Friday, August 9, 2024 at 11:59 pm. Winners will be announced in the first week of September.

The scholarship will be awarded based on a combination of academics, extracurricular activities,  community service, and interest in pursuing a career in engineering as a licensed Professional Engineer.  The weighting model is available on the last page of this document.

Please fill out the application form and enclose your latest high school transcript and university acceptance letter.

Click this link to download the Scholarship Application

Click this link to download the Scholarship Application (French Version)

All submissions & attachments should be sent as a PDF or Word document to the Chair of the  Scholarship Committee, Satiendra Jagoo, P.Eng., at the following address:

[email protected]

The selected recipient will be invited to an awards ceremony. The ceremony may be hosted by the PEO  Mississauga Chapter or may be part of the recipient’s high school graduation ceremony. An announcement of the scholarship recipients may be made on the PEO Website and in the Engineering  Dimensions publication.

We also encourage every applicant to sign up for the PEO Student Membership Program (SMP),  compliments of PEO. The SMP is a no-cost program that maintains contact between the student and their PEO Chapter during their university years.

IMPORTANT: Please provide complete information for all fields in the application. All provided information is confidential in accordance with the PEO Privacy Policy and will be used solely to determine a successful applicant.

The above information can also be found in this flyer for the scholarship. This flyer will be distributed to high schools throughout Mississauga:  Link to the flyer here or the French version flyer. 

To promote Engineering profession, Mississauga Chapter of Professional Engineer Ontario announced three scholarships for the high school students living or studying in Mississauga and pursuing their degree in engineering. Students all over the Mississauga shown a great interest and lots of student participated in the competition and the students listed below were able to win the scholarship.

Congratulations to the 2024 Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded scholarships from the PEO Mississauga Chapter in 2024!

Congratulations to the 2023 Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded scholarships from the PEO Mississauga Chapter in 2023!

Congratulations to the 2022 Scholarship Recipients

The following students were awarded scholarships from the PEO Mississauga Chapter in 2022. Congratulations!

PEO Mississauga Chapter has been engaging with its members through our social media pages throughout the past few years. Throughout the pandemic, social media has been a great tool to communicate with our members as we had to go fully virtual. Our main four channels are: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. We post the latest news and advertise our upcoming events on all platforms to ensure our members are up-to-date with the latest information. Please connect with us through the links on our website.

Objectives: The Women in Engineering & Diversity Committee at the Mississauga Chapter is responsible for organizing events promoting equity and diversity in the engineering profession to ensure that members from various diversity groups are recognized, welcomed and valued.

Activities organized by this committee include:

1. Professional presentations
2. Information seminars
3. Networking events
4. Recruitment and retention of Volunteers
5. Ongoing support for PEO members in Equity and Diversity related issues