PEO is making steady progress in helping Ontario engineering professors stuck in the licence application process obtain a P.Eng. licence. The program is motivated in part by Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) expectations that the "majority" of instructors at Ontario engineering faculties will be licensed engineers. The CEAB's 2003 Accreditation Criteria and Procedures Report states that the deans of engineering faculties should be registered engineers in Canada, and that the overall competence of the teaching faculty depends in part on instructors being licensed as professional engineers. The campaign may also assist Ontario engineering faculties to take advantage of the knowledge and experience of internationally trained engineering graduates. A recently released report of the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) suggests that internationally trained engineering graduates can help fill a shortage in senior-level teaching positions. Up to 90 per cent of Canadian engineering faculties reported teaching vacancies in 2002. As well, it's expected that more than half the full-time and associate professors now teaching engineering at Canadian universities will be retiring over the next 10 years.
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