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INGENIEUR
EDUCATIONAL
ACCORDS PRACTICE
AGREEMENTS
Washington Accord
4 years PEA International Professional
Engineers Agreement
(Engineer Mobility Forum)
APEC ENGINEER
Sydney Accord
3 years
Dublin Accord
2 years
IETA - International Engineering
Technologist Agreement
(Engineering Technologist
Mobility Forum)
Agreement for International
Engineering Technicians
Figure 2: Education Accords and Practice Agreements under the IEA.
Malaysia and the Washington, Sydney
and Dublin Accords
Malaysia, through the BEM is a full signatory
member of the Washington Accord (WA) since
2009, and a provisional member of the Sydney
(SA) and Dublin (DA) Accords since 2017. Being
a full signatory of the WA, graduates of all BEM/
EAC accredited engineering programmes in
Malaysia are mutually recognised by all other
18 full signatories of the WA, namely, Australia,
Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong
China, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand,
Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri
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Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.
Every six years the WA membership is subjected
to an international review process to ensure the
signatories’ accreditation systems and quality of
graduates are meeting the set standards of the
accords. The Malaysian membership of the WA
has been renewed for another six years until 2022.
In addition to the WA, Malaysia is now targeting to
achieve full signatory status of the SA and WA by
2018.
The path to full signatory status of the WA
was not an easy one. In the process, the criteria
and process for accreditation have been much
improved. As a result of the many instituted