INGENIEUR
demonstrate our professional
standards and competence
to potential investors and
key players, and also of our
capability to deliver engineering
services par excellence. Towards
this end, I am glad that ACPECC
is developing, monitoring,
maintaining and promoting
mutually acceptable standards
and criteria for facilitating
practice by ASEAN Chartered
Professional Engineers
throughout the participating
ASEAN Member States.
I hope this colloquium
will give more thought on the
above and produce more policy
guidelines to guide Member
States.
The Board of Engineers
Malaysia views the delivery
of engineering services as
teamwork, performed by the
Engineering Team, rather than
by individual engineers alone.
In line with this, the Board
has amended its Registration
of Engineers Act to include
Engineering Technologist s
and Inspector of Works in
view of their important role in
achieving the right quality of
engineering services delivered
by the team. This is a form of
professional self-regulation
where all members of the
Engineering Team must shoulder
accountability and responsibility
in their respective roles,
rather than on the shoulder of
engineers alone.
Also on the subject of self-
regulation, Malaysia practises
a self- cer tification system
for completion of building
construction with the issuance
of a Certificate of Completion
and Compliance or CCC.
For example, a Professional
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Eng ineer with Pr ac tising
Cer tificate who submits a
building plan for a factory is
authorised to issue the CCC. I
am glad to inform that since
its implementation in 2007,
we have only received a few
complaints much to the Board’s
surprise. This system has given
investors more assurance of
timely delivery. In fact, this
system has elevated Malaysia’s
ranking in the Global Index for
“Ease of Doing Business”.
With regards to engineering
education in Malaysia, the
Board of Engineers Malaysia is a
full signatory of the Washington
Accord since June 2009, which
was an important milestone
in the context of achieving
an internationally accepted
education standard. With this
status, Malaysian engineering
programmes are now legally
deemed as having reached
substantial equivalence with
those of advanced nations.
The B oard’s Eng ineering
Accreditation Council (EAC)
has continued to benchmark
its criteria with international
practices in other signatory
nations of the Washington
Accord.
In this regard, the private
institutions of higher learning
are benefiting even more than
the public universities. It means
that these institutions can
market their products better
outside Malaysia with the
Washington Accord label as a
mark of quality in engineering
education.
With the Washington Accord
standards as benchmark, the
EAC is engaging the institutions
of higher learning to excel in
their provision of engineering
education based on graduate
outcomes as stipulated in the
Graduate Attributes criteria
adopted by the International
Engineering Alliance. The
progress in outcome -
b a s e d e du c at ion among
the engineering education
institutions has significantly
exceeded those in the non-
engineering programmes.
In conclusion, I hope you will
have a meaningful colloquium
wherein many ideas will be
mooted for the ACPECC to take
into consideration in the way
forward towards 2025.
A s we c elebr ate our
shared success for the last 50
years, the ASEAN engineering
fraternity can look to the future
with optimism, as we work hand
in hand as partners to drive
technological and economic
development. This ACPECC
meeting is indeed an occasion
for us to set the tone for ASEAN
in the decades ahead.
I also hope that you will find
time to visit fascinating places
and enjoy delicious cuisine in
Malaysia, and have an enjoyable
experience and stay here.