Annual Report 2024-25

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By the Numbers

2024–2025 Annual Report Report from the Foundation

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BY THE NUMBERS

Our province benefits from a strong and sustainable flow of new, qualified registrants into the professions, including from outside of Canada.

REPORT FROM THE FOUNDATION

2024–2025

2023–2024

2022–2023

The Engineers and Geoscientists BC Foundation provides scholarships and bursaries to engineering and geoscience students studying in BC. It aims to encourage excellence and dedication in these fields by reducing financial barriers faced by students. In 2024-2025, the Foundation awarded $111,500 to 43 engineering and geoscience students. It administered 11 scholarships and supported 32 awards through BC’s post-secondary institutions and BC Society of Engineering and Geoscience’s (BCSEG) Branches. As of June 30, 2025, the Foundation received donations in the amount of $182,345 from over 1,500 individual donors and companies during the last 12 months. The Foundation would like to thank BC Hydro for its continued commitment and generous contribution of $15,000 towards the BC Hydro/Engineers and Geoscientists BC Foundation Scholarship. The Foundation would also like to thank Wayne Rains and Arlene Henderson for contributing to the Henderson Rains Scholarship and Eola Fenton for contributing to the Fenton Memorial Scholarship. As part of Engineers and Geoscientists BC’s volunteer recognition program, volunteers were given the option of receiving a small gift, or having a donation made on their behalf to the Foundation. The Foundation would like to thank the volunteers who chose to opt out of receiving a gift and instead donated to the Foundation. In the past year, the Foundation announced that it is embarking on a new chapter as an independent organization. The change enables the Foundation to enhance fundraising efforts, streamline operations, and expand outreach initiatives to better support engineering and geoscience students. While the Foundation has always been an

independent charitable organization, Engineers and Geoscientists BC has provided it with administrative support for the past 30 years. The Foundation will now focus on building its own administrative infrastructure, with a focus on increasing the value of scholarships awarded by developing a broad fundraising strategy. With the transfer of Branches from Engineers and Geoscientists BC to the BCSEG this year, the Foundation will continue to collaborate with the Branches to further support their respective goals. The Engineers and Geoscientists BC Foundation is a registered charity chartered in 1993 to provide scholarships and bursaries to post-secondary engineering and geoscience students (Registration no.: 821138393 RR0001). For more information about the Foundation, please email directors@egefbc.ca. Donations can still be made through the Engineers and Geoscientists BC website or the Foundation’s new website at egefbc.ca. A volunteer board of directors, whose members are all professional engineers and geoscientists registered with Engineers and Geoscientists BC, provides strategic direction to the Foundation and is actively involved in all aspects of the Foundation’s activities.

45,290

43,007

40,699 28,356

TOTAL INDIVIDUAL REGISTRANTS

30,970

29,728

PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS*

2,361

2,281

2,176

PROFESSIONAL GEOSCIENTISTS*

104

99

96

DUAL REGISTRANTS**

462

400

353

PROFESSIONAL LICENSEES ENGINEERING

25

17

15

PROFESSIONAL LICENSEES GEOSCIENCE

10,751

9,854

9,120

ENGINEERING TRAINEES

617

628

583

Foundation Directors John Clague , P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.), Chair Dick Fletcher , P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.), Secretary

GEOSCIENCE TRAINEES

Bill Richardson , P.Eng., Director Helene Desrosiers , P.Eng., Director Karen Savage , P.Eng., FEC, Director Lindsay Bottomer , P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.), Director

4,922

4,654

4,264

TOTAL FIRM REGISTRANTS

Richard Bos , P.Eng., Treasurer Angus English , P.Eng., Director

*Non-practising registrants are included in professional engineers and professional geoscientists, respectively. **Dual registrants hold more than one license (e.g., P.Eng. and P.L.Geo.)