We provide resources to assist our stakeholders in understanding our regulatory role and how we protect the public interest.
As part of its regulatory mandate, PEO establishes, maintains and develops: standards of knowledge and skill; standards of practice for the profession; standards of professional ethics; and promotes public awareness of its role. The following are resources to assist PEO stakeholders--licence holders, applicants, and the public--in understanding their roles and responsibilities and the regulator’s work protecting the public interest.
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.
PEO’s Engineering Intern (EIT) program provides guidance and assistance to engineering graduates as they acquire the 48 months of acceptable engineering work experience, including annual reviews of experience.
As the regulator of engineering in Ontario, it’s PEO’s role to assure the public that licensed practitioners are competent to practise in their chosen discipline, and that they are taking responsibility for the outcomes of their work.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
6. What are examples of activities that count towards my PEAK hours?
Continuing knowledge activities must have learning content of a technical engineering nature that helps practising licence holders maintain or enhance their competence to practise professional engineering. Here is a table of examples of activities, listed by learning activity type, that count towards your PEAK continuing knowledge hours:
Can I set up my multi-factor authentication (MFA) account through the PEO portal? I did not receive the email and cannot find the link.
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.
7. What are examples of activities that do not count towards my PEAK hours?
Continuing knowledge activities must have learning content of a technical engineering nature that helps practising licence holders maintain or enhance their competence to practise professional engineering. Here is a table of examples of activities that, generally, do not count towards your continuing knowledge hours for the PEAK program because they do not maintain or enhance the licence holder’s competence:
I never received the MFA security code in my email. Where can I find it?
Please check your email account spam/junk folder for an email from userauthentication@peo.on.ca for the one-time code.
8. Where do I submit proof of completion of my activities?
The current version of the PEAK program does not require the submission of proof of completion of a learning activity; however, feel free to retain copies of such proofs for your other continuing knowledge planning and reporting needs.
I never received the MFA security code message on my phone
Please check your text message SPAM folder for the one-time code or choose Email as your MFA option.
9. What is the formula for reporting my hours?
PEO asks licence holders to report the time spent on continuing knowledge activities in 15-minute increments on their continuing knowledge declaration forms. For a learning session with a mix of content that is relevant and irrelevant to the licence holder’s practice areas, licence holders are expected to self-determine the portion of the session that helps them maintain or enhance their competence to practise professional engineering.
The activation link in the email has expired. What should I do?
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.
10. Could I report activities I already completed for another program?
Licence holders who already complete learning activities for other programs—by employers, other regulators or technical associations—that align with the PEO description for continuing knowledge activities could consider reporting those learning activities for the PEAK program.
How can I change my multifactor-authentication (MFA) option (text message or email)?
Once logged into the portal, under profile select “change MFA option” and select the desired option and click save.