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ENGINEER PEC September 2007the ABET will process the case. For more information PEC http://www.feani.org/.may contact ABET, Inc.111 Market Pl., Suite1050Baltimore, MD 21202 ; Abet website: 3.3 Engineers Mobility Forumhttp://www.abet.org/contact.shtml, USA.The Engineers Mobility Forum (EMF) [21], established in3.2 The EUR ING Professional TitleOctober 1997, was initially formed as a subcommittee ofthe Washington Accord signatories to facilitate the mobilityThe Fédération Européenne d’Associations Nationales of experienced professional engineers. Unlike thed’Ingénieurs (FEANI) [6] (translated as the European Washington Accord, which focuses on mutual recognitionFederation of National Engineering Associations) is a of accredited academic programs, EMF is developing “afederation of national engineering associations from the system of mutual recognition of the full professional level toEU, European Free Trade Association, and countries facilitate cross border mobility of registered practitioners.”considered “eligible for accession into the EU” at a future This is especially important for currently practicingtime. Currently, FEANI, which has 26 member countries engineers whose qualifications are not recognized throughrepresenting more than two million professional the Washington Accord (EMF, 2003). EMF maintains aengineers, considers itself “the single voice for the decentralized Register of International Engineers thatengineering profession in Europe” and is working to “affirm includes the names of professional engineers in memberand develop the professional identity of engineers.” The countries who meet very specific educational andEuropean Commission recognizes FEANI as the official experiential guidelines. The purpose of the registry is torepresentative of the engineering profession in Europe. streamline the process of obtaining practice privileges inOne of the services provided by FEANI, the granting of the EMF-member countries. The registry is “decentralized” inEUR ING professional title, is intended to “facilitate the the sense that each country operates its own section andmutual recognition of engineering qualifications in Europe” writes its own “assessment statement” describing theand facilitate mobility by assigning a “guarantee of admission requirements for that country. A monitoringcompetence” to engineers who wish to practice outside committee in each country develops the assessmenttheir own countries, provide information to employers statement, reviews applications for admission to theabout educational and training systems in Europe, and registry, and functions as the point of contact for all mattersencourage continuous improvements in the quality of relating to the registry. EMF members include the nationalengineers by monitoring and reviewing standards. engineering organizations of Ireland, the United Kingdom,Currently, slightly fewer than 30,000 registered engineers United States, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong,have been granted the EUR ING title. FEANI maintains an Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, and New Zealand.index of universities and other institutions of higher FEANI has observer status, and India and Bangladesheducation and their engineering degree programs have expressed an interest in joining EMF. With the signingrecognized as fulfilling the mandatory educational of the EMF Agreement in June 2001, the Internationalrequirements for the EUR ING title. Member countries Register of Professional Engineers (IRoPE) wassubmit descriptions of schools and degree programs for established (IPENZ, 2000).inclusion in the FEANI Index upon approval by theEuropean Monitoring Committee. The FEANI Index is 3.4. Vision of Global Engineering Registrarintended to be the “authoritative source of informationabout national engineering education systems and Global Engineering Registrar (GER) would be theeducational institutions”. Basically, FEANI takes care of its authorized body responsible for accrediting professionalmember European countries only but International engineering degree programs and registering professionalEngineering Institutes and organizations may seek degrees through its representative offices through out themembership of FEANI regarding accreditation or world. The member countries will have equalequivalency of their programs. Engineering organizations representation in global office and all of them will be boundof several countries like Association for Engineering to guidelines and rules framed by the GER. UniversitiesEducation in South and Central Asia (AEESCA) and The and colleges lacking compliance to the proposed GERInstitution of Engineers, India, Federation of Engineering regulations may be notified to make necessary correctionsInstitutions of South and Central Asia (FEISCA) Nepal, in their procedures if not caring they may be ousted fromUnion of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects the GER list. It could be even more useful to design(UCTEA–TMMOB) Turkey, Association for Engineering common courses and experiments for all the universities toEducation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP) minimize the overall differences. GER may refuse licenseand The Institution of Engineers, Indonesia, The Institution extension to engineers found involved in corrupt practices,of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) Malaysia and The Institution bankruptcy and cheating. This will isolate the badof Engineers Singapore (IES) Singapore, have already professionals and incompetent engineers throughout thesought membership of FEANI for the possible intuitive world. The people who do malpractices in one country andrecognition purposes. PEC may also apply to FEANI at Av. hide in others will have no safe heaven for second chance.Roger Vandendriessche 18, B-1150 Brussels, Belgium Certainly, in this information era, the engineering ethics52
ENGINEER PEC September 2007and codes of conducts can be implemented through GERhttp://www.nap.edu/catalog/11220.htmlin a far more controlled manner than the on going 3. http://www.pec.org.pkpractices. It is like the international credit card system. Any 4. http://www.abet.org/bank defaulter can not hide anywhere in the member 5. http://www.engc.org.uk/countries. All the engineers will have record in international 6. http://www.feani.org/FEANIindex.htmdatabase and the fudge degrees and degree programs will 7. http://www.ccpe.ca/e/ccpe_boards_2.cfmbe identified. Today fake degree holders have access to 8. http://www.ieaust.org.au/even HEC database as members of curriculum and 9. http://www.bcs.org/BCS/MembersArea/coordination committees to decide engineering course for 10. http://www.ceenetwork.hu/a_about.html.the PEC accredited and recognized programs. Private 11. http://www.ecaconsortium.net.sector will have better chance of conducting business in 12. http://www.enic-naric.net.education sector without focal attention of the PEC. The 13. http://www.enqa.net.idea has already progressed well towards the concept of 14. h t t p : / / w w w. i p e n z . o r g . n z / i p e n z / f o r m s / p d f s /GER in different continents [21-24].EMF_Agreement.pdf.15. http://www.usciep.org/what_is.shtml.4. Conclusions 16. http://www.ecsa.co.za/17. http://www.hkie.org.hk/Existing police man role of PEC is appreciated in the 18. h t t p : / / w w w. w a s h i n g t o n a c c o r d . o r g / w a s h _context of geographical traditions but it needs to extend itsaccord_faq.html.role towards ultimate global authority by increasing 19. http://www.iei.ie/WebPages/PageDetails.pasp?linkages between other intercontinental engineeringpageid=1profession regulatory bodies in East and West to 20. http://www.ecsa.co.za/International/4Sydneystandardize international recognition of our professionalAccord/Thornybush_report.htmqualification practicing licenses in the form of PEC 21. EMF (Engineers Mobility Forum). 2003. A Review ofregistration certificate. Individual universities can alsoRecognition Systems for Professional Engineers. Inapproach to ABET, FEANI or CEAB for accrediting theirGlobal Challenges in Engineering Education:engineering education programs but that will drain lot of Proceedings of the 2003.national revenue abroad. Our neighbor countries like 22. N. Khan, Z. Saleem and A. A. Mirza,” PowerMalaysia and Singapore have sought but Bangladesh andEngineering Education Scenario”, PES AnnualIndia have applied for the membership of WashingtonMeeting, Poster paper, Montreal, Canada, 18-22 JuneAccord. PEC on behalf of Pakistan can also apply for the 2006.ultimate betterment of the PEC members and the country. 23. Erwin Educating the Engineer of 2020, Committee ofAlthough, it is all skepticism but still we have to live with theEngineer 2020: National Academy of Engineering,same neighbors therefore it is advisable to consider it as 2005.an issue that needs solution. As long as PEC does not 24. Kevin Sweeney,” International Recognition ofaccredit itself to world accrediting authorities it should seekEngineering Degrees, Programs, and Accreditationbenefit of accrediting policy for the electronics programsSystems”, Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adaptingproducing lot many graduates that can be suitable exportEngineering Education to the New Century Committeequality products. General PEC role is reasonablyon the Engineer of 2020, Phase II, Committee onacceptable but it should focus on integration of emergingEngineering Education, National Academy oftechnologies and engineering branches such as photonicsEngineering, PP.engineering to increase spectral bandwidth of engineeringprofile in the country. Enabling technologies such as neuralnetwork, adaptive control, fuzzy logic, photonics,About Authorintegrated optics, micro-machined sensors, Registration No. PEC (Elect/4685)nanotechnology, laser engineering and biomedical Dr. Nasrullah Khan (59); Senior Memberengineering need to be encouraged to enhance initiation of IEEE (00625749); President’s Award ofabove programs. Orthodox approach to seek job Pride of Performance (2006); Memberopportunities before starting programs needs to be IEP; Registered with PEC (Elect/4685);discouraged to develop space of new era technologies.acquired his BSC Electrical Engineering Degree (84) from5. ReferencesUET Lahore, MSC (87) from Reading University (UK) andPhD (92) from Essex University UK. He has 23 years workand teaching experience with 5 books and 130 research1. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on leading edge publications. Currently, he is working as a Professor in thetechnologies, National Academy of Engineering. Department of Electrical Engineering, FUUASTNational Academy of Engineering, 2006.Islamabad. His areas of research include Electro-Optics2. Tenth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering, and Lasers, Optoelectronics, Protective Relaying andNational Academy of Engineering, 2005: Electric Power Quality.53
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