INNOVATION Centennial Collectors Edition January-February 2020

1975 Membership in the association reaches 12,230.

2013 The 30 by 30 initiative—a goal to raise the percentage of newly licensed female engineers to 30 percent by the year 2030—is developed by Engineers Canada and endorsed by Engineers and Geoscientists BC.

1992 Kathleen Gissing becomes the first woman to serve as president. At the time, only 2.2 percent of members were women.

1980s New engineering disciplines, such as aerospace engineering, software engineering, and biomedical engineering begin to take hold. The association begins pursuing professional licensure for geoscientists amid concerns about practice overlap and resource evaluations.

2015 Membership in the association reaches 29,839.

2002 Membership in the association rises to 21,756.

1990 The Division for the Advancement of Women in Engineering and Geoscience is created. Geoscience officially becomes a regulated profession, and the association is renamed the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC. The name of the Act would be updated in 1996 to reflect this change.

2004 Engineers and Geoscientists BC, UBC, and government partner to implement Seismic Retrofit Guidelines for BC schools, leading to the upgrade of 168 schools in active seismic zones across the province. The guidelines have been expanded to other critical infrastructure across the province and internationally.

1997 The association journal, BC Professional Engineer , changes its name to Innovation .

TODAY Engineers and Geoscientists BC has more than 37,000 engineering and geoscience members (15 percent of which are women), working in over 40 disciplines. We are a modern and progressive regulator focused on ethics, excellence, and progress. But no matter how much our world has changed, our primary purpose remains the same: to protect the public.