Incorporated Name
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick (often abbreviated as APEGNB)
Business Name
Engineers & Geoscientists New Brunswick (never abbreviated)
History
- Founded in 1920 by Charles Conyers Kirby, P.Eng., in Saint John, New Brunswick, to regulate the engineering profession in the province.
- Our original name was the Association of Professional Engineers of New Brunswick (APENB).
- Back then, Canada’s population was a little over 8 million people and APENB had a membership of 117.
- As Canada emerged from World War I, the country’s engineers were hard at work perfecting radio transmissions, rockets, traffic lights, and combustion engines.
- In 1999, our association took responsibility for regulating the geoscience profession in New Brunswick.
- Now, with Canada’s population surpassing 34 million, Engineers & Geoscientists New Brunswick’s ranks have swelled to more than 5400 and we license more than 450 companies to practice engineering and geoscience in the province.
- APEGNB members work in more than 16 different engineering/geoscience disciplines—from designing and creating energy-efficient buildings and faster computers to developing high-mileage vehicles and life-saving medical devices. And that’s in addition to the work they do in ensuring New Brunswickers have safe drinking water, responsible mining practices, state-of-the-art transportation and communication systems, and renewable energy sources.
- It is the job of their regulatory body, APEGNB, to ensure that only qualified engineers and geoscientists are licensed to do that work.
Regulatory
Engineers & Geoscientists New Brunswick is governed by the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act 1999.
The Act gives APEGNB the right to:
- regulate the practice of engineering and geoscience and to govern these professions in accordance with this Act and the By-Laws;
- establish and maintain standards of knowledge and skill among its members; and
- establish and maintain standards of professional ethics among its members, in order that the public interest may be served and protected.
To carry out our mandate, APEGNB is administered by:
Engineers & Geoscientists New Brunswick is a constituent member of Engineers Canada (representing approximately 234,000 engineers) and Geoscientists Canada (representing 11,000 members).