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Professional Practice Exam, which covers engineering law and engi-
neering ethics, before the P.Eng is conferred. The accreditation review
is completed by a national organisation (the Canadian Council of
Professional Engineers), but the Law and Ethics exams, as well as the
evaluation of the applicant
file are administered by the provincial
organisation (in Ontario, for example, the organisation is called
Professional Engineers Ontario).
Some Universities in Canada, which offer earth sciences, have put
together a package of courses that is expected to meet the course
requirements for registration as Professional Geologists. While
Geoscientists Canada publishes national guidelines as to the courses
required, these are not binding, and programmes are not directly
accredited. Rather, the experience and course review by each provin-
cial organisation is completed for each individual applicant. Three
available electives are considered within the Professional Geologist
designation: geology, geophysics and environmental geoscience. Each
applicant must pass a Professional Practice and Ethics exam.
In both cases (P.Eng and P.Geol), because registration is completed
on a provincial level, the geoscientist or geological engineer must
become registered in all of the provinces where they plan to work.
Furthermore, in both cases, where an applicant is missing core courses,
they must complete subject area exams to demonstrate their technical
pro
'
s
ciency in the subject.
In summary, engineering geologists in Canada have a legal require-
ment to register as professional geoscientists in each province where-
they wish to work but there is no speci
c professional quali
cation
for engineering geologists. P.Eng applies speci
cally to engineers but
engineering geologists with long experience in civil engineering can
register
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i.e. hold both P.Geol and P.Eng quali
cations.
A.1.5 China
China
s universities provide courses in both geology and engineering
geology as
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first degrees. Some level of professional status as a geologist
or engineering geologist is provided by membership of the Geological
Society of China (GSC). To become a member requires
ve years
experience after graduation or two years experience after completing
a postgraduate MSc or MEng. Engineering geologists can become
members of the Engineering Geology Committee (EGC) (the China
National Group of IAEG), which is a professional committee within
the GSC. Engineering geologists
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status in the workplace is identi
ed
by positional title, a ranking system
junior to senior. This profes-
sional ranking is reviewed and entitled by a committee called the
positional title audit panel, organised by local government, or within
some big institutes/companies authorised by the government. Salaries
and allowances are largely determined by this positional system.
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