OSPE - The Voice - June 2017 - 10

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OsPe's 2017

annual General meeTInG
General assembly

OSPE member David Carnegie, P.Eng., kicks off the General
Assembly with a presentation on OSPE's report Excess Soil
Management: Ontario is Wasting a Precious Resource, the
implications of these survey findings, and the reasons this research
caught the attention of municipal and provincial government leaders.

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The VOICe

June 2017

General assembly session 1
Classroom to Career: how engineering
students Can succeed in a Changing labour
market
With a membership base comprising more than 8,000
engineering students and engineering interns (EITs),
the labour market challenges facing young, engineering
professionals is top of mind for OSPE.
Analysis of the 2011 National Household Survey challenged
the notion that the career trajectories of engineering
graduates are simple and straightforward. While OSPE's
2015 report, "Crisis in Ontario's Engineering Labour Market:
Underemployment Among Ontario's Engineering-Degree
Holders," revealed that 92% of Ontario engineering students
who responded to a survey by IPSOS Reid intended to pursue
work as engineers after graduation, the findings in the 2011
data caught the attention of the media, public, government,
and engineering community.
To begin, the report found that only 29.7% of employed
individuals in Ontario with bachelor's degrees or higher in
engineering worked as engineers or engineering managers.
An additional 33.3% of individuals with an engineering
degree worked in jobs that did not require a university degree.
These individuals are working in jobs that may not fully utilize
their engineering skills and knowledge, prompting OSPE to
categorize this demographic as 'underemployed'.
Following its release, the report was the basis of numerous
Queen's Park meetings by the Society, as well as constituency
meetings led by OSPE's Political Action Network (PAN)
representatives. Moreover, OSPE actively engaged pertinent
stakeholders one-on-one to better understand why a
significant number of engineering graduates are not working
in the engineering field, and how engineering students can
better position themselves for success in today's highly
competitive and ever-changing labour market.
OSPE's 2017 Annual General Meeting presented the
perfect opportunity to bring together a cross-section of
representatives, specifically policy experts, post-secondary
institutions, academics, industry, and the engineering
students' society, for an in-depth discussion.
"We know that engineering students, graduates, and
professional engineers are critical to the success of Ontario's
research and innovation ecosystems as both innovators
and entrepreneurs... This breakout session ["Classroom to
Career"] will address how we can help Ontario's engineering



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