Appendix III:

Professional Specialization

Please indicate the category which BEST represents your FIELD OF OCCUPATION (you have three choices).

Please note: the following categories enable comparison with Statistics Canada data.

  ENGINEERING

Aerospace Engineering

  • Avionics
  • Propulsion
  • Mechanical systems
  • Structures
  • Space systems
  • Environmental
  • Aerodynamics/flight test engineering


Biosystems Engineering

  • Agricultural
  • Biotechnology
  • Fisheries/aquaculture
  • Forestry
  • Environmental
  • Food Processing


Computer Engineering

  • Hardware design/architecture
  • Information systems/data processing
  • Software design
  • System integration


Chemical Engineering

  • Chemical/biochemical
  • Process design or control
  • Advanced materials & polymers
  • Environmental
  • System integration


Civil Engineering

  • Construction
  • Materials
  • Environmental
  • Municipal/urban
  • Geotechnical
  • Hydrotechnical
  • Structural
  • Survey/geomatics
  • Transportation


Electrical & Electronics Engineering

  • Electrical
  • Electronics
  • Control systems
  • Environmental
  • Telecommunication
  • Power generation/ transmission/distribution


Geological Engineering

  • Geophysics
  • Geochemistry
  • Geology
  • Hydrogeology
  • Mining/rock mechanics
  • Environmental
  • Geotechnical


Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering

  • Industrial
  • Environmental
  • Production systems
  • Manufacturing processes
  • Quality assurance, quality control/safety


Mechanical Engineering

  • Mechanical systems
  • Controls/robotics
  • Solid mechanics/material/stress analysis
  • Heating, ventilation & air conditioning
  • Thermodynamics/fluids
  • Environmental


Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

  • Metallurgy
  • Materials
  • Mineral processing
  • Environmental


Mining Engineering

  • Mining
  • Mineral processing
  • Exploration
  • Environmental


Petroleum Engineering

  • Operations
  • Refinery
  • Environmental


Other Engineering Specialties

  • Biomedical engineering
  • Engineering physics/science/math
  • Naval architecture/marine engineering
  • Nuclear
GEOLOGY
  • General geology
  • Environmental geology
  • Geomorphology
  • Glacial geology
  • Marine geology
  • Petroleum geology
  • Igneous petrology
  • Metamorphic petrology
  • Sedimentary petrology
  • Sedimentology
  • Stratigraphy
  • Structural geology
  • Tectonics
  • Atmospheric sciences
  • Land use/urban geology


Economic Geology

  • General
  • Coal
  • Metals
  • Non-metals
  • Oil & gas


Geochemistry

  • General geochemistry
  • Analytical geochemistry
  • Experimental petrology/phase equilibria
  • Exploration geochemistry
  • Low-temperature geochemistry
  • Marine geochemistry
  • Organic geochemistry
  • Stable isotopes


Paleontology

  • General paleontology
  • Biostratigraphy
  • Micropaleontology
  • Paleobotany & palynology
  • Vertebrate paleontology
  • Invertebrate paleontology
  • Paleobiology
  • Paleoecology/paleoclimatology


Hydrology

  • General hydrology
  • Ground water/hydrogeology
  • Quantitative hydrology
  • Surface waters
  • Geohydrology


Soil Science

  • Soil physics/hydrology
  • Soil chemistry/
  • Mineralogy
  • Pedology/classification/morphology
  • Forest soils/rangelands/wetlands
  • Soil biology/biochemistry


Engineering Geology

  • General engineering geology
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Mining engineering
  • Petroleum engineering
  • Rock mechanics


GEOPHYSICS

General Geophysics

  • Exploration geophysics
  • Geodosy
  • Geomagnetism & paleomagnetism
  • Gravity
  • Heat flow
  • Seismology
  • Marine geophysics


Petroleum Geophysics

  • Data acquisition
  • Data processing
  • Data interpretation


Environmental Geophysics

  • Data acquisition
  • Data processing
  • Data interpretation


Mining Geophysics

  • Data acquisition
  • Data processing
  • Data interpretation


Remote Sensing

  • Data acquisition
  • Data processing
  • Data interpretation


OTHER OCCUPATIONS
If your area of specialization cannot be classified using one of the aforementioned descriptions, please specify.

[ INTRODUCTION ]...[MEMBER STATUS]...[THE PROGRAM]

[KEEPING RECORDS & REPORTING]...[ROLE OF THE EMPLOYER]

[AUDITING OF PROGRAMS]...[APPENDICES: 1, 2, 3]...[WORKSHEETS AND EXAMPLES]

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