mytest wrote:
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Happy to provide some guidance based on my own experience.
Usually the experience commitee consists of two members who are specialized in the field of the area of expertise that you have mentioned in your experience letter.
Please prepare a brienf summary of your experience and list of projects that you have done with description of how you have applied engineering principle. Please take a brief summary that would help you to explain your experience.
Initially they give you an opportunity to talk about your experience. Use this opportunity to your favor and describe your enigeeing experience and how you contributed to projects. Please be relevant.
Explain to them that you are specialized in one field such as water resource engineering, geotechnical, structural etc. Do not try to portray that you are an expert in many fields, usually that confuse the examiners and undermines your experience. In North America professionals usually specialize in one area.
Be prepared to answer basic theoritical questions in your area of expertise. So revise the first prinicipals of your subject. The ERC commitee will not expect you to answer or solve complicated questions. The scale of the questions should be that any practicing prudent engineer would know. Familiarize yourself with some basic engineering engineering standards in your field that are used in Canada. Again they will not expect you to know everything - but basic idea definitely would help.
If you are not sure about a question please ask for clarification or to re phrase the question. Think before you answer, there is no need to feel pressured to rush to an answer.
If a question is asked which is not your area of expertise, then please explain that it is not your area of expertise.
Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any further questions.
I want to directly contact you, as I got a letter for ERC interview from PEO; please contact me at
haris.zafar@mohawkcollege.ca