Registration FAQ

If you are already registered as a professional in another province or territory, apply for Professional Licensure as a Mobility Applicant.

If you have acceptable academics (undergraduate degree in engineering or geoscience), and at least 4 years of engineering or geoscience experience, apply for Professional Licensure. You will need to demonstrate your experience through the completion of a competency-based assessment. 

If you have the required academic qualifications for professional licensure but do not yet have enough experience, you should apply as an engineer-in-training or a geoscientist-in-training and maintain that category until you have the required experience.

If you do not meet the requirements for professional licensure, you may be eligible for a limited license.

PEGNL’s Applicant Portal asks you a short series of questions and directs you to the correct application type based on your answers. It is very important that you answer the questions accurately, as selecting the wrong application type can result in delays in reaching a decision on your application.

Please note that if you have at least 4 years of experience (international experience counts), you should apply for Professional Licensure. If you meet the academic requirement, you will be offered registration as an engineer-in-training or geoscientist-in-training while you complete the rest of the process.

• Use of the E.I.T. or G.I.T. designation – titles protected under the Act & Regulations
• Access to PEGNL’s Learning Management Platform – including resources on professional ethics
• Use of PEGNL’s PD Portal – opportunity to learn the system (it will be mandatory once fully licensed) and build one years’ worth of professional development hours for carryover
• Access to the Competency Assessment online system – work on your competency self-assessment throughout your in-training period
• Networking opportunities – collaborate with professionals and your peers
• PEGNL membership provides access to a variety of Engineers Canada sponsored benefits and partnerships such as:

• • Major Car Rental Discounts (for all the explorers out there)
  • Home and Auto Insurance (great savings opportunity for new grads)
  • Health, Life, and Dental Insurance (especially attractive for all the entrepreneurs in the community)
  • Pet Insurance (because who doesn’t love their pet!)
  • And much much more…

PLUS if you apply within 6 months of your receiving your degree at convocation, we waive the application fees. In addition, when you apply for your professional license in the future you don’t have to pay an application fee if you’re a current MIT!

The required documents, based on application type, can be found in Section 3.1.1 of PEGNL’s Registration Policy.

Proof of identity meeting the requirements in Section 3.1.2 of PEGNL’s Registration Policy must be supplied, as well as arranging for your academic transcripts (not applicable to mobility applicants) to be sent directly to PEGNL as per Section 7 of PEGNL’S Registration Policy. On completion of the application you will have access to a checklist of your required documentation. 

Geoscience applicants (applying for G.I.T. or first-time P. Geo.) must also supply course descriptions for any courses not taken at Memorial University.

For a physical stamp, allow up to 3 weeks for delivery.  

For a digital stamp, allow 3 to 5 business days for processing.

Please refer to our fees schedule.

If the proposed Member(s) in Responsible Charge is (are) already licensed with PEGNL, you should receive either the permit or an update within 20 business days.

If the proposed Member(s) in Responsible Charge is (are) NOT licensed with PEGNL, their individual application must be approved before the permit to practice application can be processed.

No. NPPE is a pre-requisite to Professional Licensure. You may  be informed that you meet the other requirements for licensure (academic, experience, language, and good character), but you cannot be licensed until the NPPE has been successfully completed. If you have met the other requirements for licensure, you have 12 months to complete the exam.

You can go ahead and renew your MIT status. Current MITs who upgrade to professional licensure have their MIT fee paid for that year applied against their professional member fee, so there are no extra costs associated with renewing.

Upgrading MITs are strongly encouraged to file their professional development to capture any potential carry over for the following year.

Please refer to our registration policies and resources: Registration Policies & Documents

To be eligible for registration as a Member-in-Training, you must meet the academic requirement for licensure. This includes successful completion of any assigned exams.

If your academics have been reviewed and accepted, you will be offered registration as a Member-in-Training  while you complete the remainder of the requirements for licensure.

PEGNL no longer has a time-based Canadian experience requirement. It has been replaced with a competency based evaluation. A subset of the engineering and geoscience competencies have been designated as Canadian competencies. The examples used for these must have been completed in Canada. If the examples were not completed in Canada, you must describe how the situation is equivalent to the Canadian environment. For example, if a competency required you to demonstrate knowledge of regulations, codes and standards, you could use an international example stating the regulations/codes/standards you used. To demonstrate equivalency, you could state what Canadian regulations/codes/standards you would have used if this work had occurred in Canada. More information is available on the Competency Assessment page.

To serve as a validator, the individual must have first-hand knowledge of the example used for the competency they are assigned to validate. In addition to direct supervisors, colleagues/clients/etc. are also acceptable.

The overall validator requirements are:

• At least 4 validators
• At least 1 direct supervisor
• At least 2 P. Eng./P. Geo. or equivalent (CVs will be required to determine equivalency)
• CVs for any validators who are not a Canadian-registered P. Eng. or P. Geo.

You may be granted a maximum of 12 months experience credit for pre-graduation experience (work terms, internships, industrial training, etc.). In order to receive this credit, you must have first completed at least half of your undergraduate program.

You will need to provide details of your experience once you have access to the CBA system, which will include Employer, Supervisor name, title, and contact info, and a description of your major projects and responsibilities.

Please note that logbooks were replaced by the CBA system.

If you have already submitted your CBA, PEGNL must make the modifications for you. You can request a change by sending an email to registration@pegnl.ca. The email should include your member or applicant number, and the specifics of the change you want made (unlock a competency, modify a validator email, etc.). PEGNL will not make modifications to your CBA account over the phone, you must request the change via email.

Please note that Education information must be updated by PEGNL. This will not be filled out until we receive your official proof of academics.  If there is a discrepancy between what you provided in your application and your official proof of academics, it will reflect what is in your provided official proof of academics.

If there are other professional engineers or professional geoscientists in your organization, they can serve as validators in addition to your supervisor and you do not need a formal mentor. The P. Eng. or P. Geo. validator requirement can be meet with non-supervisor validators.

If you are still working towards meeting the 48 month experience requirement and do not work with any professional engineers or professional geoscientists, you may need a mentor. PEGNL strongly encourages you to search your own network for a professional engineer or professional geoscientist who is willing to serve as a mentor. Potential mentors could include a client or contractor, or a former supervisor, colleague, or instructor. You should also refer to PEGNL’s CBA Mentorship Guide. Once you have identified someone willing to serve as a mentor, please contact PEGNL so we can record the mentoring relationship.

If you cannot identify a mentor on your own, you may reach out to PEGNL with a current CV for assistance in locating a mentor.

Your transcripts or WES report should be sent DIRECTLY to PEGNL by your university or WES. PEGNL cannot accept transcripts or WES reports (sealed or not) from an applicant.

If the registration FAQs on this page have not answered your questions, PEGNL staff are available to meet with applicants (or potential applicants) by appointment only. Please Contact PEGNL to arrange an appointment!

Please refer to the Technical Examinations page.

Assigned examinations cannot be appealed. As stated in Section 15 of the Regulations, 2024, an applicant shall have no right to request review if an application has been deferred.

However, if an applicant wishes to challenge a deficiency examination assignment, they should refer to the Engineers Canada examination syllabus for that examination and provide justification (through course descriptions or similar evidence of the details of the applicant’s academic credentials) for why they feel they are not deficient in this area.

No. However, optional online practice tests are available here for purchase.

To learn more about the content and study materials, we recommend you visit the NPPE website. 

You must register for the NPPE through the PEGNL Member and Applicant Portal.

Once registered, you will receive an email with more information and instructions regarding your exam approximately 2-3 business days after the registration deadline for the exam sitting.

Questions regarding your booking should be directed to Meazure Learning at testingsupport@getyardstick.com. PEGNL cannot contact Meazure Learning on your behalf.

If you do not receive a confirmation email from Meazure Learning, first check your junk email folder to ensure the email is not accidentally filed there. Should you not receive an email with this confirmation information at least three weeks prior to the examination date, you should contact Meazure Learning immediately and request that an exam granted email be resent to you: testingsupport@getyardstick.com

NPPE results are typically received approximately two-three weeks after the exam. Results will be released before the registration deadline for the next sitting.

If you will be offering services or working on a project in Newfoundland and Labrador, a PEGNL Permit to Practice (like a Certificate of Authorization) is required. Section 12 of the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, 2008 requires that any entity that provides the services of a professional member to the public must have a Permit to Practice issued by PEGNL.

The “public” is considered to be any entity outside of your own organization.

Permit to practice fees are based on the number of license holders registered with PEGNL. Please refer to our fees schedule.

Members-in-Training are NOT included in the license holder count. Only license holders (P. Eng., P. Geo., Eng. L., and Geo. L.) are included.

Information on insurance requirements is contained in PEGNL’s Professional Liability Insurance By-Law.

Sample insurance certificates are available here.