Yeah...welll engineering degrees are one of the few where you can be a professional and a relatively well paying job after undergrad or masters......the number of Canadian PhD students in Mech/Civil/EE is likely lower than the rest of disciplines....take my buddy for example...he went straight to Seattle and started working for MS out of his EE degree....why should he bother with NSERC and go through this torture?
coded as 202 in the Scholarship Section...1512 is for grants (professor)....seems like 201 and 202 will be the last .... unless the vast majority of people here in the Sciences
I am sure when you put a group of PhD students in a forum during a pandemic, we can work out how the results are released based on limited data and publish a paper out of that