Senior Candidate applications

Applications to participate as a Senior Candidate in the 2026 Obligation Ceremony are now closed. Applications for the 2027 Ceremony will be accepted starting in November 2026.

Engineers who meet the Senior Candidate criteria may take the Obligation and receive the Iron Ring by participating in the Obligation Ceremony.

If you are already an Obligated Engineer and wish to attend the Obligation Ceremony, no application or ticket is required. Simply wear your ring to the Ceremony and you will be admitted.

If you are currently an undergraduate engineering student you should not apply using the Senior Candidate process; you will receive an invitation to register through your home university.

Eligibility

Senior candidate status is available to anyone who:

1. is or has previously been a fully-licensed professional engineer in Canada, or
2. is a graduate of an accredited Canadian undergraduate engineering program, or
3. has received confirmation of academic acceptability for licensure from a Canadian provincial or territorial regulator of professional engineering such as Professional Engineers Ontario.

If your undergraduate degree is not from an accredited Canadian engineering programme, you will not qualify as a Senior Candidate unless you can provide documentation demonstrating eligibility under either categories 1 or 3 above. For category 3 it is not necessary to have completed the licensure process, just the assessment of academic acceptability.