INGENIEUR
Registration statistics as
at
31.3.2017
Registered
Person
PE
with
Prac.
Cert.
10,435
Professional
Engineer
7,235
35
Accredited
Checkers
(S)
-‐
21
Accredited
Checkers
(G)
-‐
14
Graduate
Engineer
97,702
255
Engineering
Consultancy
Prac;ces
1972 Graduate
Engineer
Foreigner
Engineering
Technologist
1019 Inspector
of
Works
1,445
329
Body
Corporate
Partnership
1,553 Sole
Proprietorship
58 Mul;
Disciplinary
BEM Registration Statistics as at March 31, 2017
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to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the
Engineering Teams continue to play a key role in
providing the necessary talents to fill in all the
digital eco-system necessary to move the nation
towards the digital economy era.
Not surprisingly, engineers continue to be in
great demand till this day. There are now over
115,000 qualified registered engineers in the
country, many of whom have graduated from
local institutions of higher learning. To date,
there are 16 public universities and 30 private
universities offering engineering education
at professional levels. There is also a large
number of private colleges offering engineering
twinning programmes between local and foreign
universities.
Prior to 1972, engineers could only practice
engineering as ‘authorised persons’ under the
Architects Ordinance (1952), which restricted
qualified engineers to the submission of reinforced
concrete plans for buildings up to two storeys high
and floor area not exceeding 3,000 square feet.
The Architects Ordinance was obviously unsuitable
to the advent of high rise buildings. As a result,
the Institution of Engineers Malaysia formed a
Committee in 1959 to work on the Engineers Bill
to be tabled in Parliament through the Ministry
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of Works, which was in charge of the Architects
Ordinance. After numerous meetings between
engineers, architects and surveyors, it was finally
agreed that three similar but separate Bills be
prepared – one for each profession – and tabled in
Parliament. The Bills were passed in August 1967.
For engineers, it was the Registration of Engineers
Act (REA), implemented five years later in 1972.
Since then there were a few more amendments to
the Act with the latest amendment in 2015.
In the 2015 amendment, the registration
of engineering professionals was extended
to include the Engineering Team. Other than
previous categories of Graduate Engineers
and Professional Engineers, new categories of
Professional Engineers with Practicing Certificate,
Engineering Technologists and Inspector of Works
have been included.
The main function of BEM is now to keep
and maintain the Register which contains the
following:
Names, addresses and other particulars of:
i. Part A – Professional Engineers
ii. Part B – Graduate Engineers
iii. Part D – Engineering Consultancy
Practices
iv. Part E – Accredited Checkers