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When your application is complete, the Admissions Committee will evaluate your submission with an academic and experience review. The file review takes approximately 3 to 4 months after receiving all the relevant documents. It’s important to not let your membership lapse during this process by continuing to pay your membership dues. 

Academic Review

In the academic review, the Committee will evaluate your education in relation to a 2-year (typically technician) or 3-year (typically technologist) Ontario post-secondary engineering technology or applied science program.  If required, missing academics will be assigned. Please see the below drop downs for more information.

In order to meet the minimum required academics for certification, a member must have completed a 3-year college program for C.E.T. or a 2-year college program for a C.Tech.  If a member has not met this, they are assigned missing academics by the Admissions Committee. 
 
To meet the additional academic requirements, you can:
  1. Check with your local college or educational institution for a suitable course.  Colleges such as Centennial, Seneca, George Brown, Humber, Mohawk and Algonquin are some that offer on-line engineering related courses. The content of the course must match the competency you were asked to complete.
     
    This Find a Program college website can help you find second or third year assigned academics. Depending on your discipline, choose either Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources or Engineering & Technology and then look for a college provider of technician programs (for C.Tech.) or technologist programs (for C.E.T.).
     
  2. Complete a technical exam for each course. OACETT will set an exam for you and provide you with a list of materials to study. Please contact certify@oacett.org for details. 
     
  3. A combination of the above.
Once you have located a possible academic course that matches an assigned competency, complete the submission form, attach course descriptions, and return them to certify@oacett.org.

To see the assigned courses in your portal, click on My Membership at the top then Certification Details on the left. Open your application then click on Academics on the left. Scroll down to see the assigned academics.

If the Admissions Committee assigns one or more academic courses or subject competencies during the file review, members can apply to OACETT to write technical exams instead of taking courses through various community colleges, institutions or through online learning. 
 
To apply for a technical exam(s), send a request to certify@oacett.org. 

Once your payment has been processed, a guide will be prepared listing the texts that you are required to study. You are required to write the technical exam within six months of receiving the study guide. Exams are written at either the OACETT office in Toronto or at your workplace. 
 
If you choose to write at a location other than the OACETT office, then you must provide an invigilator to supervise the exam. The invigilator must be a professional such as a C.Tech., C.E.T., professional engineer, or chartered accountant. You will be required to supply the contact information for the invigilator so that the exam and instructions can be forwarded to them.  
 
Technical exams are non-refundable. To see the latest pricing, click here. 

Experience Review

In the experience review, the Committee will evaluate your work experience in the field of discipline of engineering technology or applied science in which you are seeking registration against the OACETT profiles for a technician and technologist. You must have at least two years of acceptable experience for certification.

  • Applicants who may immediately qualify for C.E.T. certification, based upon their academics, will be initially recognized as a Certified Technician, C.Tech. while working towards becoming a C.E.T. 
  • The most common reason for taking longer to receive a C.E.T. certification initially are the experience requirements. OACETT requires at least six months in a role that has been determined by OACETT to meet technologist level competencies.
  • If the C.E.T. certification is not obtained initially due to experience requirements, we encourage individuals to speak to their supervisors to look for additional responsibilities and oversight activities.

Most members who apply for C.E.T. begin in the role of technician (C.Tech.) and progress into technologist roles as their career progresses. If you have questions relating to the experience process please visit the FAQ page.

UNDERGRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE is obtained in a co-op, internship or other equivalent full-time engineering technology or applied science program.

Up to one full year may be credited if the student attended or is attending a nationally accredited program or if the supervisor during the co-op placement is a certified member of OACETT or a licensed professional such as a P.Eng., OAA, P.Geo., or O.L.S.

Co-op work experience that does not fall into either of these two categories will be recognized at 50% of the time worked up to a maximum of 6 months, i.e. 12 months' co-op = 6 months' experience.

Credit for C.E.T. supervised and non C.E.T. supervised co-op experience can be combined as long as the maximum of one year credit is not exceeded and any particular experience is only counted once towards the one year maximum.