Licensing Assistance Program (LAP)
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.
