Concepts
The Future of Engineering
Cyber Security – A New Profession
It protects critical infrastructure, such as oil pipelines, water treatment facilities and hospitals, and supports the day-to-day operation of services, from online banking, to public transport, to food delivery.
Cybersecurity also poses a challenge: decisionmakers must balance the competitive advantage of digitizing their organization’s operating environment against the greater exposure it brings to malicious cyberthreats, alongside non-malicious – but often damaging – human error and systems errors.
Communities must see products and services as cybersecure and the experts that protect them as competent if they are to trust and adopt them. Yet headline-making attacks on essential services are commonplace and undermine trust in services and in the ability of societies to cope with technological change. Governments, organizations and the people that depend on them need to be able to trust that they are protected by recognized cyberecurity best practices that defend against cyberthreats.
Cyber Security – A New Profession (Video) – Mar 23, 2022 (CIUT Radio Show 1)
Governing Emerging Technology And Applied Science & Engineering Professional Practice
Show 2 of this series of 3 broadcasts was on April 20, 2022. In this show, we are saying that the accelerating growth of science and technology leads to new practices that can create either benefit or harm depending on how it is governed.
Who is permitted, that is licensed, to do these works? How do we govern all these professions?
In contrast to Cyber Security, many of these practices are not plainly visible to the public and government. Their growth has escaped notice as well as the profession’s ability to deal with them.
We must wake up.
Emerging Tech – Part 2 (CIUT Radio Show 2)
Transformative Advancement of Technology
Show 3 of this series of 3 broadcasts was on May 18, 2022. In this show we look at the lack of attention that has been paid to emerging areas of practice in Applied Science and engineering over the last 75 years. For the last 100 years the AG has been the caretaker of the Ontario Engineering Profession. Is this a fruitful relation?
The licensing of engineering practice is much more than a legal act. In the last 75 years, many new applied science and engineering practices have been created that are the foundation of our modern world. More is coming at an even faster rate. We are not coping now and we are not keeping up to what our technically talented people can do for Ontario and Canada. We will discuss what is happening to a core underpinning to our economic well being. We will begin with Cyber Security, a pressing and urgent practice to address. Our National security is at risk. The Russian war on the Ukraine is indicative of what is happening in virtual, cyber space. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many emerged and emerging practices that can be either good or bad depending on how well we govern and regulate them. We can do much better than we have. We can utilize our human resources much better. We can develop our natural resources here in Canada and keep the value-add to create high paying jobs and prosperity for our people. We will look at the issues and what needs to be done.
Emerging Tech – Part 3 (CIUT Radio Show 3)
Engineer General
A brief overview of the role of Engineer General and the importance of connecting political decisions to technology to advance the prosperity of Canadians. Engineer General Also see Radio show 3 under “Position Statements”Internships
To assist new applied Science and Engineering graduates in obtaining their required experience to qualify for their P.Eng Licence, a two year fully funded internship program similar to what the medical profession enjoys is being advocated by E4P.
Internships