About this competency desk
Engineers assembling a competency-based assessment need somewhere to write before the portal opens, and something that counts characters and averages while they do. That is the whole of this site: a drafting surface, three regulator rule sets as data, and guides that explain the assessment in plain words.
Start at how the competency assessment works, or open your competency desk.
The rule data, and the documents behind it
Nothing here is a general-purpose essay about engineering licensure. Each check runs against a profile object that holds one regulator's competencies, minimum ratings, category averages, character limits and experience rules as numbered data:
- Ontario (34 competencies): 34 competencies in 7 categories, category averages of 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, and Situation 300, Action 1,650, Outcome 300 characters.
- Alberta (22 competencies): 22 competencies in 6 categories, category averages of 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, and Situation 400, Action 1,800, Outcome 400 characters.
- Shared system: BC and five other provinces (34 competencies): 34 competencies in 7 categories, category averages of 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, and Situation 300, Action 1,200, Outcome 300 characters.
Those figures were transcribed out of 8 published documents from Professional Engineers Ontario, APEGA, Engineers and Geoscientists BC, Engineers and Geoscientists BC (competencyassessment.ca), APEGS, and every profile keeps the title, edition and URL of each one; the character limits guide prints the citation beside the number it cites. A limit the documents did not settle is carried as unverified rather than guessed, and the desk says so at the counter instead of enforcing an invented ceiling.
Who is behind it
Competency Desk has one independent developer behind it and no office, staff or regulator connection. The same developer runs a few other record-keeping tools for people working toward a credential: Practicum Ledger, Fieldwork Ledger, Sea Time Ledger and Surveyor Case.
Competency Desk is the only name on its guides. They carry no individual byline, and the author entry in their markup is the site's organization. No P.Eng. or other licence is claimed, and no engineer is named. Where a guide and the regulator's own document differ, the document governs.
Where the desk stops
Competency Desk does not determine your assessment outcome; the regulator's assessors decide. This is a text editor with arithmetic attached, so the limits are real ones. It cannot submit anything: the regulator's portal is the only place an application is filed, and nothing typed here is transmitted. It does not read your examples for quality, write a sentence for you, or estimate whether an assessor would accept one. It holds no opinion on your eligibility, your degree, your experience outside Canada or your English proficiency, and it is not legal, immigration or career advice. It is not a regulator, not an approved preparation course, and not a substitute for the applicant guide your own regulator publishes. Where a figure here and that guide disagree, the guide is right and this site has a bug: report it to socialreminderinfo@gmail.com.