Engineering
Engineering, a world of possibilities
Like a challenge? Want to make the world a better place? Engineering may be just what you’re looking for.
No matter how you think or where you’re from, your strengths have a place in engineering. Québec needs minds like yours to innovate and shape the future.
In engineering, everything you do matters. You can develop cutting-edge technologies or help save the planet. The possibilities are endless!
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Engineering... all around us, every day!
From infinitely big to infinitely small, engineering is everywhere!
At meal time
To fight food crises, improve nutritional content in food and battle against the extinction of plant and animal species, food engineers have made some amazing achievements.
Research has helped us discover growing methods, effective industrial processes and healthy, tasty products, which have led to the creation of new companies, and even saved entire regions from bankruptcy.
Bridges
Bridges strongly symbolize human engineering… San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the Pont d’Avignon in France or London Bridge in England, the Millau Viaduct, or closer to home, Confederation Bridge between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick just to name a few. They become objects of pride for many communities.
Every day, millions of people rely on the science of engineers to overcome natural obstacles and save time. It's not utopic to think that, one day, bridges will be so solid and light that they will connect continents!
Clothing
Ever lighter, more flexible, more comfortable and warmer, today's clothing incorporates technological innovations to improve the quality of life for people. In the clothing and textile sectors, research even involves designing and marketing smart clothing that adapts to the weather, to our activities, to our tastes and even to our moods!
Automobiles
With the anticipated decline in oil stocks and its serious environmental consequences, innovators in the car industry focus primarily on finding alternative cleaner energy sources without affecting vehicle performance!
The automobile sector is teeming with technological developments. We want cars that are greener, safer, quicker, more energy efficient, more personalized and entertaining… the old dream of the flying car that is 100% environmentally friendly may not be so far off!
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For Girls
Engineering and girls
A brief history of engineering
Engineering invented… engineers! To build the pyramids in Egypt, invent the wheel or tame fire, engineering had to be used, even though the profession of engineer did not exist.
The profession of engineer, first appearing in the Middle Ages, took its name from the Old French word "engeigneur" which meant "a person who invents and makes machines". At this time, this person was almost exclusively assigned to military functions. Since then, engineering has applied sciences to a multitude of fields.
Engineering has revolutionized our ways of communicating, of travelling, and of housing ourselves, not to mention our industries, and many more areas.
About the OIQ
The Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec ensures the protection of the public by overseeing and monitoring its members to serve the public with professionalism and integrity, strictly complying with laws and regulations.
The OIQ is not an association or union for the defence of engineers. It exists to protect the public and enable engineers to flourish in their work, through training and other initiatives.
Public Protection
Computers, roads, buildings, agriculture, prescription drugs, industrial manufacturing, video games, vehicles, artificial intelligence… the engineering profession is exercised in many areas and profoundly affects our lives.
The engineer's work must be impeccable and reliable at all times. To protect Québec society, the provincial government has mandated the OIQ and its 68,500 members to provide the best professional services. Click here to learn more about the OIQ and protection of the public.