hi,

Wonder if someone would help me out with this career situation. i want to be recognised as an engineer and get my licensing. I have a manufacturing engineering background and have two advanced degrees from the UK at Masters level, one of them being a research degree.
my canadian immigration and the end of my studies came about at the same time, hence i migrated to canada from the UK with little industry experience.

My career objective is to be a manufacturing engineer, and to that extent i found a job in canada in an engineering company as a machinist. now this is turning out to be a very useful thing as far as experience is concerned. but i am faced with everyday doubts about myself being away from an engineers life (atleast temporarily), and the inability of my employers to look beyond my current job description in part due to the plant/office politics that i commonly get to hear about in GTA companies...could be universal not sure!!

So would it be possible to document my technology based experience such as on CNC machines etc as acceptable canadian experience in engineering for PEO licensing purposes? I really am not a part of the engineering department, and nor am i working under a PEng...although i believe that this shop floor experience that i am currently getting should be a part of every manufacturing engineers career.
my qualifications (academic) are really strong and i can put forward a really good case on that front...i feel that if this experience is recognised and the licensing is possible, then it would make my entry into the 'real' engineering world much easier in canada.

what is your opinion??

Thanks,

becan