The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) boasts five advocacy task forces: Energy, Infrastructure, Environment, Research and Innovation, and Diversity and Inclusion. The task forces were set up to inform…
Message from the President Spring is meant for renewal, but instead, in my first month as president at OSPE, we found ourselves in the middle of a potential disaster, as…
OSPE’s Board of Directors are the elected members who decide OSPE areas of advocacy interest. The group is diverse in education, expertise, and region. OSPE sat down with the three…
The following blog post was contributed by Diversity & Inclusion Task Force member, Vanessa Raponi, EIT, regarding her experiences as a young, queer, woman of colour working in different engineering…
Gema Rodriguez is a civil engineer who came to Canada from Nicaragua five years ago. Since then, her major projects include working as an international construction coordinator in several African…
On June 4th, 2020, we relaunched our job board, which is now the OSPE Career Centre! This new platform comes with additional functionality for member job seekers as well as…
Today, June 5, we celebrate World Environment Day. This day has been commemorated since 1974 with the intention of engaging governments, businesses, and citizens to focus their efforts on pressing…
All professions struggle with the gap between academia and industry, and engineering is no different. A group of engineers and researchers at McMaster University, based in Hamilton, Ontario, are hoping…
For the first time in OSPE’s history, our Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held virtually on Wednesday May 6, 2020. The evening started with a presentation by Dr. Chris Bart,…
The Federal Government has recently made public their intentions to spend billions of dollars in infrastructure, as a way to stimulate the Canadian economy during these times. Infrastructure and Communities…
