TRUST & RELEVANCE
University Outreach
Ivan Finlay Leadership Award APEGA presented 10 engineering and
geoscience university students with the Ivan Finlay Leadership Award for their leadership, vision, and impact in their schools, communities, or beyond. This award, which is available every year, honours Ivan Finlay, FEC, P.Eng., an electrical engineer and APEGA’s first full-time registrar (1959–1978), who inspired the next generation with his professionalism, integrity, and innovative perspective. Congratulations to our 10 recipients for 2025, who each received an award of $1,250! Pelumi Abiola-Oseni; Goodluck Agu; Ahmed Belhaj; Jayman Cannataro; Abdul Rahman Darras, E.I.T.; Tinomudaishe Gozhora; Catherine Ko; Mohammad Maarefi; Md Atikul Islam Nayeem; Muhammed Shareef.
After a strong first year with more than 800 registrations, APEGA’s Work Readiness Program continued to grow in 2025, with more than 500 new students signing up to start developing the skills and relationships needed in their future professions. Appointments for the Mentoring Café and submissions for Virtual Résumé Reviews continued to surge (they had already tripled and nearly doubled, respectively, in 2024), with hundreds of students eager to start their careers and experienced volunteers ready to support them. “It got to the point when, at the end of 2025, we had to temporarily shut the mentoring platform down to move it to a new platform that could handle the load more efficiently and make it easier to connect people,” says APEGA’s outreach manager. Participant numbers showed that university students are staying engaged, and we also saw other signs of the program’s success: “Over the course of the year, we had regulatory bodies and universities from outside Alberta ask us about our Work Readiness Program, because they want to model their own programs after it.” Because aspiring registrants must learn ethics as well as technical skills, we again held our Ethics Workshop in the spring and fall. At these workshops—which are primarily for University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and Mount Royal University undergraduate students—participants reviewed real-life, ethical-dilemma case studies and discussed the outcomes. In 2025, APEGA’s Work Readiness Program exceeded its 2024 success.
By the numbers
1,385 WORK
READINESS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
461 members-in-training 54 individuals with member-in-training applications in progress 870 university students including: 480 University of Alberta 324 University of Calgary 3 Mount Royal University 2 Red Deer Polytechnic 1 University of Lethbridge 60 from other institutions
mentoring volunteers 163
students registered to attend two Ethics Workshops 925
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