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NPPE - Professional Practice Exam Preparation (14 PDHs)
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Daily Schedule:
8:00am - Registration (1st day only)
8:30am - Session begins
5:00pm - Adjournment
*This course has been re-developed for the new Ethics study guide: 2009 4th Edition of the Practice & Ethics book by Gordon C. Andrews. Effective for all NPP Exams starting January 2010.
Description:
As a prerequisite for registration with APEGGA, 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
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.
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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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.
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