The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act and The Engineering and Geoscience Professions Regulatory Bylaws require that members remain competent. APEGS’s Continuing Professional Development Program provides members with a framework to plan and report on their continuing professional development activities. Check out the profile below to see how meeting the reporting requirements is easy to do as part of every engineer’s or geoscientist’s daily work to protect the public and the environment.
Name:
Ian Farthing, P.Eng.
About Me:
I have lived in Prince Albert with my wife Alanna for over four years. We enjoy being active and involved in our community. My wife and I enjoy activities together such as golfing and curling.
Job Responsibilities:
I am currently a project engineer with Associated Engineering in Prince Albert. My work includes areas of transportation and municipal infrastructure. My responsibilities include contract administration, cost estimates, surveying, design and making on-site project decisions. This position has provided me with a great deal of diversity in work. My career has allowed me to help provide communities with improved access to safe drinking water and safer passages to northern communities.
Professional Development Activities:
Formal – I carry out 3-D modelling training and evaluation and other internal training and awareness programs within my company.
Informal – I attend APEGS AGM track sessions. I expand my knowledge of modelling software for both transportation and municipal infrastructure applications. I undertake self-directed learning to gain knowledge that will be applied to upcoming projects.
Participation – I have been a member of the APEGS Awards Committee for several years. I help guide Engineers-In-Training within my workplace.
Presentations – I have made presentations on specialized jobs and methods of construction to co-workers in lunch-and-learns.
Describe how your development activities help increase your knowledge/competency at your job:
My current position has allowed me to be involved in a wide variety of projects and has encouraged me to expand my knowledge and skill set to provide value to my clients. Training programs combined with sharing knowledge in informal settings directly adds value to different phases of projects such as design, tendering, construction, commissioning and assessment.
Informal activities such as track sessions allow me to gain knowledge through the session itself and provide me with networking opportunities with others that attend those sessions.
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