September_2012

Function of Board of Engineer (BEM)

- Regulate the conduct and ethics of engineering profession to safeguard the public safety
- Undertake accreditation of engineering degree
- Undertake training and education of engineer
- Publication
- Fixing scale of fees
- Publication
- Source of support for engineer
- Mechanism of helping engineer on ethic
- Create atmosphere conducive to ethical practice

Compare qualification of professional engineer, temporary and accredited checker

Temporary engineer

- Minimum 10 years’ experience of practice

- Possess expertise in field that he intends to practice
- Physical presence in Malaysia not less than 180 days in one calendar year
- Employed as engineer and assigned to specific project by a company
- Sponsored by local professional engineer in company
- Hold qualification as professional engineer

Accredited Checker

- Professional engineer in civil, structural, or geotechnical engineering

- Have 10 years of practical experience in design or construction of building
- Adequate hand-on experience in structural or geotechnical

Graduate Engineer

- Recognized academic qualification by EAC, BEM or need to be top up with master degree by
instruction from accredited university
- Copy of Mycard, certified true copy of degree and full official transcript
- All document must be certified by Professional Engineer who registered with BEM
September_2011

Ethical view of involvement of non-registered engineer

- All graduates intending to work in Malaysia should first register with BEM once they obtained
their degree certificate.
- It is a legal requirement and failure to do so may result in predicament in future.
- In case of Zain, once he obtained his degree, he needs to register directly with BEM to avoid any
tight schedule in future.
- BEM only recognized the experience gained by engineering graduate only after he has
registered as a graduate engineer.
- Taking account 5 years of engineering experience, Zain has wasted 5 years’ worth experience.
And should be within that period, he can be professional engineer which carry title ‘Ir.”

Main difference between roles of BEM and IEM

IEM

- Qualify body for professional engineers in Malaysia

- It is non-governmental body
- Engineering student can join IEM

BEM

- A government body
- Qualify body for professional engineers in Malaysia
- Only for engineer and engineering graduate

Characteristics of engineer should have

- Sophisticated and specialized skills

- Special societies and organization
- Contribute significantly to public benefit
- Responsibility to public especially safety
- Extensive and regulated formal education
- Judgment in term of using available material to reach specified objective
- Discretion in keeping employers or client intellectual property and business information
confidential

Definition of quality

- Fitness to use (Joseph Juran)

- Conformance to requirement (Philip B. Crosby)
- Dynamic state associated with product, services, people, process, environment that meet or
exceed customer expectation
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Roles and responsibility of BEM and IEM in quality of engineer, requirement to register and
recognition of professional status

Professional engineer

- Must be registered as graduate engineer with BEM

- Satisfied training requirement with BEM
- Complied with all requirement of the Board
- Passed Professional Assessment Examination (PAE) of BEM
- Residing in Malaysia not less than 6 months

Responsibility of engineer ensuring high standard of profession and interest of public safety

Key quality of engineer-entrepreneur must possess

Training module to facilitate development of engineer-entrepreneur

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How professionalism of engineer contribute to environmental protection

- BEM is one of government body that regulate law 127 which environmental protection.
- Professional engineer should well verse in pollution that emitted from their product and need to
be contained within limit. Failure to do so can result in fines.

Justification of efficient engineer

- Understand the engineer’s obligation to the public

- Practice safety at all times and be sensitive to long term issues
- Always try to improve communication and presentation skills
- Adopt continuous learning

Six sigma

- A statistical measure of the performance of the process or a product

- A goal that reaches near perfection for performance improvement
- System of management to achieve lasting business leadership and world class performance
- Six sigma put customer first and use fact and data to drive better solution
- Target of six sigma are improving customer satisfaction, reducing cycle time, and reducing
defect.
- Tools used in six sigma are DMAIC = define, measure, analyze, improve, and control
- Define customer and requirement, measure thing critical to quality, analyze baseline,
opportunity objectives, and root cause, improve and control process

Roles of engineer in development, protection of environment, and economical benefit