Professional Engineer – CE Update

May 11, 2008

I was in Port Dickson on the 21st to 23rd March 2008, contributing to a workshop to prepare a question bank for the Competency Exam, CE (I know, this was a while ago, I just found my notes).

The proposal is that all engineers applying to sit for the Professional Assessment Examination (PAE) after April 1st, 2008 with have to take the CE. It is targeted to have the first CE in June 2008, with at least three sittings per year.

The current outline of the paper is that it will split into 2 parts, a 3 hour general paper and a 3 hour paper related to the candidate’s engineering branch.

The general paper will cover The Engineers Act and Regulations, OSHA and Environment Quality Act (EQA). The branch paper will cover Uniform Building By-Laws (UBBL), and codes and standards pertaining to the engineering branch.

  • The general paper will consist of 2 sections. Section A will be 30 true/false answers, while for section B, the candidate has to answer 15 out of 20 subjective questions.
  • The branch paper will present 30 questions, out of which 20 need to be answered.

Note: I do not take responsibility if any of the above is altered. Ask your friendly IEM rep.

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BEM – Registration of Foreign Engineers

April 10, 2008

Many people have questions about how a foreign engineer can register in Malaysia as an engineer.

The answer lies in the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 (Revised 2002), Section 10A.

My interpretation of the Section is as follows:

  • Foreign engineers may only be registered as Temporary Engineers.
  • A foreign engineer may only be registered if:
    • he possesses the necessary qualification which is recognised for the practice of engineering as a professional engineer in the country where he normally practises; and
    • he possesses the necessary expertise and his physical presence is required in Malaysia for not less than one hundred and eighty days in one calendar year or he is a resident representative of the foreign component of a joint-venture.
  • The Board of Engineers may approve the registration of a Temporary Engineer for such period not exceeding one calendar year and may renew the registration as it deems fit.
  • For the purpose of this section “foreign engineer” means an engineer who is not a citizen or a permanent resident of Malaysia.

So, how do you get around this if you don’t meet the requirements of the Act? Call yourself a ‘consultant’, ‘specialist’, ‘MD’, and other non-aggressive titles. You get the same pay anyway.

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