June 1, 2010: PEO Headquarter announcement - PEO Mentorship program!!!

Professional Engineers OntarioMississauga Chapter has started a mentor program where the experienced professional engineers - Mentors - provide guidance and advice to the candidates for professional engineering license, P.Eng - Mentees .

Mentoring is the transfer of skills and knowledge of experienced professionals to new engineers and thus provide a great benefit to the engineering and society. Mentoring provides mentees with skill they may traditionally have to acquire through trials and errors and costly mistakes. Mentors help mentees to obtain their P.Eng license by providing their engineering expertise but are not expected to be career counselors or find jobs for the mentees.

In Greek mythology, King Odysseus entrusted his friend Mentor with the care and teaching of his son Telemachus. Since that time, the word "mentor" has come to be defined as and "experienced and trusted advisor".

There is a tremendous need for mentoring among the immigrant engineers for whom the P.Eng licences give the required engineering degree credentials as well as four years equivalent Canadian work experience in their respective field of engineering. This becomes extremely beneficial to them to settle in Canada with gainful employment. We hope that our program will help the less experienced engineers, especially the new immigrant engineers, gain P.Eng license and prosper in their career.

This program has been launched with help of three external agencies: Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC), Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre (DBNC), and Acess Counselling and Community Services (ACCES). These agencies are in the business of mentoring for a long time with excellent tract record. We are enormously thankful to these agencies for giving us solid lift off.


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