As a prerequisite for registration in Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, engineering, geology, geophysics graduates and applicants are required to successfully complete the National Professional Practice Exam (NPPE) and the additional essay.

Instruction, facilitation, brainstorming

• After this course, students will be able to pass the professional practice exam by EGBC
• Students will think systemically to solve ethical dilemmas as engineer or geoscientist
• Students will identify illegal practices from legal practices in their workplace
• Students will make appropriate recommendations to avoid misconduct as a professional

18 hours

Minimum bachelor degree in engineering or geoscience

Projector and screen

• Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics: Fifth
  Edition (2014) – Gordon C. Andrews
• Practical Law of Architecture, Engineering, and Geoscience, Third Canadian
  Edition (2015) – Brian M. Samuels and Doug R. Sanders
• Industry Canada Booklet – A Guide to Patents
• Industry Canada Booklet – A Guide to Trade-Marks
• Industry Canada Booklet – A Guide to Industrial Designs
• Industry Canada Booklet – A Guide to Copyrights
• Engineers and Geoscientists Act, Bylaws and Code of Ethics

English

• Exam Preparation: How to study and how to write the exam
• Regulating a Profession
• APEGA’s Act
• APEGA’s Regulations and Bylaws
• Disciplinary procedures
• Updating your knowledge
• Ethical Theories and Code of Ethics
• Ethics for three different groups of Professionals: Managers, Employees, and Private Sector
• Specific issues in Ethics: Environmental Ethics, Computer Ethics, Ethics
• Canadian Legal System
• Business Organizational Structures
• Professional implications: Tort Law, Contract Law, and “Product Liability”
• Contract Classifications: Choosing project participants
• Contract Classifications: Delivering Methods: Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, etc.
• Risk assessment
• Contract Classifications: Compensation Methods: Fixed Price, Cost Plus, etc.
• Life Cycle of a Contract: Awarding, Executing and Terminating
• Sustainability
• Specific issues in contracts: Breaches, Disputes and Delays
• Important Clauses in Construction Contracts
• Specific types of Contracts: Insurance and Bond
• Other types of law for Professionals: Intellectual Property Law, Labour Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law, and OH&S Law
• Multiple choice questions practice and review
• How to write the essay and the practice

• Mock Exam (Law & Ethics)
• Write an Essay

• Being an Engineer
• No absent during the term