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NPPE - Professional Practice Exam Preparation (14 PDHs)
- Register two or more delegates and get %10 off course fees each
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 Daily Schedule:
8:00am - Registration (1st day only)
8:30am - Session begins
5:00pm - Adjournment
GIC boasts a 100% passing rate* for students who attended the July 2010 exam.
*Percentage is calculated based on the number of students who responded to survey.
As a prerequisite for registration with APEGA and APEGBC, Engineering, Geologists, and Geophysicists graduates and other first time applicants are required to successfully complete an examination on the topics of professional practice, ethics and law to be able to practice their profession in Canada.
This workshop is intended as a review course with mock exams to prepare one's self for the NPPE.
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Day I:
Professional Engineering Practice and Ethics
This day-long workshop will help participants preparing to write in general areas of Engineering Practice and Ethics of the Professional Practice Exam (NPPE). This workshop will focus on:
- The definition of professional engineering;
- The role of the association & the responsibilities associated with self governance
- Professional accountability, conduct and ethics, the P.Eng.s responsibility to the public & duty to report illegal or unethical engineering practice
- The ethical use of the engineer's seal
- Continuing competence
- The social and environmental impacts of engineering on society
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Day II:
Law for Professional Engineers, Geoscientist
This day-long workshop will summarize and simplify the fundamentals of professional Engineering law and will help participants preparing to write the Professional Practice Exam (NPPE). This workshop will focus on:
- The basic structure of the Canadian legal system
- Tort law, liability and issues
- Business organizations
- Contract law
- Specifications & tendering
- Discharge & breach of contract
- Bonding, estoppel & construction lien legislation
- Intellectual property, patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs
- Professional advertising
- Dispute resolution, negotiation, arbitration; litigation
- The engineer as expert witness
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Special Features
At the end of the two day workshop, you will write a mock exam and get it marked before you go home with your results in hand.
Strongly Recommended Texts
- Practical Law of Architecture, Engineering, and Geoscience, 2nd Canadian Edition by Brian M. Samuels & Doug R. Sanders
- Canadian Professional Engineer and Geoscience Practice and Ethics, 4th Edition by Gordon C. Andrews
NPPE Sample Exam Questions
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If your boss is illegally dumping material in the Saskatchewan River, what is the first step you should take:
A. Blow the whistle on your boss
B. Talk to your boss first
C. Report your boss to APEGGA
D. Report your boss to the legal authority
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If you are working in a foreign country where bribery is a cultural norm, but illegal, what is the reason you should not participate in such activities:
A. It will hike up the project costs
B. It is illegal
C. It is unethical
D. It is against your company policy
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P.S. GIC can offer many of our courses at a location of your choice, at your convenience
and tailored to your special needs. For more information, please contact us.
Course Materials:
Each participant will receive a complete set of course notes and handouts that will
serve as informative references.
GIC reserves the right to cancel or change the date or location of its events. GIC's
responsibility will, under no circumstances, exceed the amount of the fee collected.
GIC is not responsible for the purchase of non-refundable travel arrangements or
accommodations or the cancellation/change fees associated with cancelling them.
Please call to confirm that the course is running before confirming travel arrangements
and accommodations. Please click here for
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