Definitions of Engineering, Geology and Geophysics

Excerpts quoted from The Engineering, Geological and Geophysical Professions Act (Section 1, Definitions)

(m) "practice of engineering" means

(i) reporting on, advising on, evaluating, designing, preparing plans and specifications for or directing the construction, technical inspection, maintenance or operation of any structure, work or process

(A) that is aimed at the discovery, development or utilization of matter, materials or energy or in any other way designed for the use and convenience of man, and

(B) that requires in the reporting, advising, evaluating, designing, preparation or direction the professional application of the principles of mathematics, chemistry, physics or any related applied subject, or

(ii) teaching engineering at a university;

(n) "practice of geology" means

(i) reporting, advising, evaluating, interpreting, geological surveying, sampling or examining related to any activity

(A) that is aimed at the discovery or development of oil, natural gas, coal, metallic or non-metallic minerals, precious stones, other natural resources or water or that is aimed at the investigation of geological conditions, and

(B) that requires in that reporting, advising, evaluating, interpreting, geological surveying, sampling or examining, the professional application of the principles of the geological sciences, or

(ii) teaching geology at a university;

(o) "practice of geophysics" means

(i) reporting on, advising on, acquiring, processing, evaluating or interpreting geophysical data, or geophysical surveying that relates to any activity

(B) that requires in that reporting, advising, evaluating, interpreting, or geophysical surveying, the professional application of the principles of the geophysical sciences, or

(ii) teaching geophysics at a university; . . .