Message from the Registrar & CEO
Regulating the professions and protecting the public. This is more than just the theme for this year’s annual report—it’s APEGA’s core purpose and reason for being. In 1920, a group of visionary engineers were concerned about the lack of engineering regulation in our fledgling province. They proposed to the Government of Alberta that engineers—and the geoscientists who were part of their ranks—regulate themselves to safeguard public welfare. The province agreed, and APEGA has been entrusted to do this essential regulatory work ever since. In the past year, two significant legislative and legal developments have affected how we carry out this work—but not our duty to Albertans. The first is Bill 7 . This exemption, added to the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Ac t in November, allows individuals in the technology industry to legally call themselves “software engineers” without holding an APEGA licence or an engineering degree. This change was approved by the provincial government, whose role it is to create legislation. As a regulator, it will be APEGA’s role to implement this new legislation. That’s the spirit in which we’re moving forward. While Bill 7 settled how the software engineer title can be used, APEGA filed an appeal with the Alberta Court of Appeal about a recent provincial Court of King’s Bench ruling to seek clarification on the permissible use of the title “engineer.”
Jay Nagendran P.Eng., FCAE, ICD.D, FEC, FGC (Hon.)
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2023 ANNUAL REPORT
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