Potential occupations
Universities studies lead to multiple occupations. Furthermore, certain professions require talent, special aptitudes, additional skills and experience beyond degrees themselves. By targeting a profession, it can make decisions easier during your schooling, throughout your job search and, finally, when choosing among job offers. The choices can change over time based on academic, personal, and professional paths and on the knowledge of occupations and of the labour market.
In order to list your choices, visit the Job Bank Canada website and, using the National Occupational Classification (NOC) codes, view job postings, wages, employment prospects and other important information that can help you make a decision. If need be, additional and complementary information can be found via two online career exploration tools (Careercruising and Choices Planner)* also designed to facilitate your career advancement. The occupations found below are examples derived from the National Occupational Classification.
Occupations related to this program
Electrical and electronics engineers
- Avionics engineer
- Circuit design engineer
- Design engineer, radio and television broadcasting systems
- Electrical network engineer
- Instrumentation and control engineer
- Protective relay engineer
- Spacecraft electronics engineer
Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
- Computer engineer
- Data communications specialist
- Fibre-optic network designer
- Hardware development engineer
- Network capacity planner
- Telecommunications engineer
- Wireless communications network engineer
Other professional engineers, n.e.c.
- Bioelectricity engineer
- Biomedical engineer
- Engineering scientist
- Naval engineer
Engineering managers
- Engineering research and development director
- Engineering service group manager
- Engineering service project manager
- Electrical engineering service manager
- Production engineering manager
- Telecommunications engineering service manager
Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Cost engineer
- Industrial efficiency engineer
- Industrial engineer
- Quality assurance (QA) engineer
- Manufacturing engineer
- Production engineer
Engineering inspectors and regulatory officers
- Engineering department inspector
- Engineering regulatory engineer
- Quality assurance officer
- Radio interference investigator
Senior managers – financial, communications and other business services
- Chief operating officer – engineering firm
- Engineering firm president
- Engineering research general manager
- Engineering vice-president
Technical sales specialists – wholesale trade
- Diagnostic instrument sales representative
- Electrical equipment sales representative
- Electrical industrial equipment sales representative
- Electricity sales representative
- Electronic equipment salesperson - wholesale
- Hydro-electricity sales representative
- Industrial engineer
- Supervisor, technical salespersons
- Sales engineer, technical support
College and other vocational instructors
- Architectural technology instructor
- Commercial design instructor
- Commercial design teacher
- Company instructor
- Computer-assisted drafting (CAD) instructor
- Graphic design instructor
- Industry instructor
Volunteer opportunities
In addition to providing an opportunity to apply theories and knowledge learned during your university studies outside the classroom, in real world situations, volunteering is a way to help the community and its many organizations. The Community Service Learning also allows students to contribute to their community by participating in projects that are related to their program of study.
Potential employers
The following examples of employers can offer internships or employment opportunities related to students program of studies.
- Accenture
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Allen-Vanguard
- Bell
- Cisco
- Communications Research Centre Canada
- IBM
- MC Countermeasures Inc.
- MMIST Inc
- Natural Ressources Canada
- Nav Canada
- Telestat
- Transport Canada
- University of Ottawa
- AECON
- Aversan
- Canadian Microelectronic Corporation
- Celestica
- Cenovus Energy
- Chrysler Canada
- Cisco
- Devlin
- Ehvert Mission Critical
- Ericsson
- General Electric - GE
- Hyro One Inc.
- Ontario Power Generation
- Schneider Electric
- Spencer Engineering
- Teledy DALSA
- Toronto Hydro
- Wescam
- Pillar5Pharma
- BBA
- Bombardier
- Dessau
- Hydro-Québec
- Kiewitt
- MaitreD
- Altagas
- BC Public Service
- Canadian Natural
- Encana
- Enmax
- Imperial Oil
- Integrated Engineering Software
- Manitoba Hydro
- Micralyne
- Omicron
- SaskPower
- Suncor Energy
- Telecom Engineering Inc.
- Telus
- Areva
- Cementation
- Curtiss-Wright
- Dürr Industries
- Ericsson
- Evraz
- Infinera
- MCW Group
- Newton
- PCL Constructors Inc.
- Performance Technologies, Inc.
- Statoil
- Teck
- ThinkPath
- Vale
- WorleyParsons
- Adobe Systems
- Apple
- Hewlett-Packard - HP
- Intel
- International Business Machines - IBM
- MicrosemApi
- Neat Company
- Tetra Tech
- CEMIG
- Colbun
- Copel
- CPFL Energia
- EDP in Brazil
- Eletrobras
- Grupo CGE
- Light S.A
- ABB
- AWE Newtech
- BMT Defence Services
- EDF
- Enel
- Indesign
- Nokia
- NPower
- Owens Corning
- Oxford Instruments
- Seagate
- Check Point
- Etisalat
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- Infosys
- Lenovo
- Mitsubishi Electric
- Qatar Telecom
- Saudi Electricity
- Saudi Telecom
- Toshiba
- Bidvest
- Eskom
- AGL
- Origin Energy
- Recall
- WorleyParsons
Professional organizations
Examples of professional organizations, presented by location, provide essential information on professional development opportunities and networking activities, the examples can also provide access to publications and job opportunities.
- Association of Consulting Engineering Companies |Canada
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia - APEGBC
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick - APEGNB
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan - APEGS
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba -APEGM
- Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia - APENS
- Association of Professional Engineers of Prince Edward Island -APEPEI
- Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta - APEGGA
- Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Canadian Electricity Association
- Canadian Society for Engineering Management
- Engineering Institute of Canada
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE
- Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
- Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland & Labrador
- Professional Engineers Ontario - PEO
- Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology - ABET
- American Society for Engineering Education - ASEE
- Chinese Society for Electrical Engineers
- Computer Society of the institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - IEEE
- Electrical Engineering Students' European Association
- Electricity Engineers' Association (New Zealand)
- IAENG Society of Electrical Engineering
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- International Engineering Alliance
- International Federation of Consulting Engineers - FIDIC
- National Society of Professional Engineers - NSPE